Profiling Support

The profiling support offers functions to report profiling information available in the system. More...

Files
file	profiling.h
	Profiling API.

Data Structures
struct	rtems_profiling_header
	The profiling data header. More...
struct	rtems_profiling_per_cpu
	Per-CPU profiling data. More...
struct	rtems_profiling_smp_lock
	SMP lock profiling data. More...
union	rtems_profiling_data
	Collection of profiling data. More...

Macros
#define	RTEMS_PROFILING_SMP_LOCK_CONTENTION_COUNTS   4
	Count of lock contention counters for SMP lock profiling.

Typedefs
typedef void(*	rtems_profiling_visitor) (void *arg, const rtems_profiling_data *data)
	Visitor function for the profiling iteration. More...

Enumerations
enum	rtems_profiling_type { RTEMS_PROFILING_PER_CPU, RTEMS_PROFILING_SMP_LOCK }
	Type of profiling data. More...

Functions
void	rtems_profiling_iterate (rtems_profiling_visitor visitor, void *visitor_arg)
	Iterates through all profiling data of the system. More...
int	rtems_profiling_report_xml (const char *name, const rtems_printer *printer, uint32_t indentation_level, const char *indentation)
	Reports profiling data as XML. More...

Detailed Description

The profiling support offers functions to report profiling information available in the system.

Profiling support is by default disabled. It must be enabled via the configure command line with the –enable-profiling option. In this case the RTEMS_PROFILING pre-processor symbol is defined and profiling statistics will be gathered during system run-time. The profiling support increases the time of critical sections and has some memory overhead. The overhead should be acceptable for most applications. The aim of the profiling implementation is to be available even for production systems so that verification is simplified.

Profiling information includes critical timing values such as the maximum time of disabled thread dispatching which is a measure for the thread dispatch latency. On SMP configurations statistics of all SMP locks in the system are available.

Profiling information can be retrieved via rtems_profiling_iterate() and reported as an XML dump via rtems_profiling_report_xml(). These functions are always available, but actual profiling data is only available if enabled at build configuration time.

Typedef Documentation

rtems_profiling_visitor

typedef void(* rtems_profiling_visitor) (void *arg, const rtems_profiling_data *data)

Visitor function for the profiling iteration.

Parameters

[in,out]	arg	The visitor argument.
[in]	data	The current profiling data.

See also

rtems_profiling_iterate().

Enumeration Type Documentation

rtems_profiling_type

enum rtems_profiling_type

Type of profiling data.

Enumerator
RTEMS_PROFILING_PER_CPU	Type of per-CPU profiling data. See also rtems_profiling_per_cpu.
RTEMS_PROFILING_SMP_LOCK	Type of SMP lock profiling data. See also rtems_profiling_smp_lock.

Function Documentation

rtems_profiling_iterate()

void rtems_profiling_iterate	(	rtems_profiling_visitor	visitor,
		void *	visitor_arg
	)

Iterates through all profiling data of the system.

Parameters

[in]	visitor	The visitor.
[in,out]	visitor_arg	The visitor argument.

rtems_profiling_report_xml()

int rtems_profiling_report_xml	(	const char *	name,
		const rtems_printer *	printer,
		uint32_t	indentation_level,
		const char *	indentation
	)

Reports profiling data as XML.

Parameters

[in]	name	The name of the profiling report.
[in]	printer	The RTEMS printer to send the output too.
[in]	indentation_level	The current indentation level.
[in]	indentation	The string used for indentation.

Returns

As specified by printf().