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- <h4 class="subsection">9.29.6 Profiling Capability</h4>
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- <p>It is a performance hit to use gcc’s profiling approach for this tiny target.
- Even more – jtag hardware facility does not perform any profiling functions.
- However we’ve got gdb’s built-in simulator where we can do anything.
- </p>
- <p>We define new section ‘<samp>.profiler</samp>’ which holds all profiling information.
- We define new pseudo operation ‘<samp>.profiler</samp>’ which will instruct assembler to
- add new profile entry to the object file. Profile should take place at the
- present address.
- </p>
- <p>Pseudo operation format:
- </p>
- <p>‘<samp>.profiler flags,function_to_profile [, cycle_corrector, extra]</samp>’
- </p>
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- <p>where:
- </p>
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- <dd>
- <p>‘<samp>flags</samp>’ is a combination of the following characters:
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt><code>s</code></dt>
- <dd><p>function entry
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>x</code></dt>
- <dd><p>function exit
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>i</code></dt>
- <dd><p>function is in init section
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>f</code></dt>
- <dd><p>function is in fini section
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>l</code></dt>
- <dd><p>library call
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>c</code></dt>
- <dd><p>libc standard call
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>d</code></dt>
- <dd><p>stack value demand
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>I</code></dt>
- <dd><p>interrupt service routine
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>P</code></dt>
- <dd><p>prologue start
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>p</code></dt>
- <dd><p>prologue end
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>E</code></dt>
- <dd><p>epilogue start
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>e</code></dt>
- <dd><p>epilogue end
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- <dt><code>j</code></dt>
- <dd><p>long jump / sjlj unwind
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>a</code></dt>
- <dd><p>an arbitrary code fragment
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>t</code></dt>
- <dd><p>extra parameter saved (a constant value like frame size)
- </p></dd>
- </dl>
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- </dd>
- <dt><code>function_to_profile</code></dt>
- <dd><p>a function address
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>cycle_corrector</code></dt>
- <dd><p>a value which should be added to the cycle counter, zero if omitted.
- </p></dd>
- <dt><code>extra</code></dt>
- <dd><p>any extra parameter, zero if omitted.
- </p>
- </dd>
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- <p>For example:
- </p><div class="smallexample">
- <pre class="smallexample">.global fxx
- .type fxx,@function
- fxx:
- .LFrameOffset_fxx=0x08
- .profiler "scdP", fxx ; function entry.
- ; we also demand stack value to be saved
- push r11
- push r10
- push r9
- push r8
- .profiler "cdpt",fxx,0, .LFrameOffset_fxx ; check stack value at this point
- ; (this is a prologue end)
- ; note, that spare var filled with
- ; the farme size
- mov r15,r8
- ...
- .profiler cdE,fxx ; check stack
- pop r8
- pop r9
- pop r10
- pop r11
- .profiler xcde,fxx,3 ; exit adds 3 to the cycle counter
- ret ; cause 'ret' insn takes 3 cycles
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