HP Caliper 5.7 for HP-UX Release Notes (769154-001, March 2014)

Changes in release 5.1
New options and enhancements to options
The HP Caliper 5.1 release has the following improvements:
• The cstack report has been enhanced to report inter-process blocking primitives (semaphores,
message queues, sockets, pipes, regular file descriptors, etc.). This process level blocking
primitive information is provided in addition to the previously reported primitives (mutexes,
rwlocks, condition variables, etc.).
• A new HP-UX only option --kernel-stack True|False specifies whether to extend the
callstack samples collection into kernel space. By default, only the userspace callstack samples
will be collected. This option is used only with the cstack measurement.
• A new overview measurement provides flat profile, data cache, and call stack profile
information in a single run.
• The collection speed of scgprof (sampled call graph) has been improved.
• Improvements have been made to the storage of performance data during collection.
Deprecations
• Use of caliper pbo to collect edge profile using dynamic instrumentation is deprecated. If
caliper pbo is invoked to collect arc count, the following warning is issued:
Caliper pbo edge profile using dynamic instrumentation
(--pbo-data-type=arc-stride/stride-arc/arc,dcache-miss) is deprecated.
Use the +Oprofile=collect compiler option instead.
• If an application is already built with +Oprofile=collect and caliper pbo is explicitly
invoked with --pbo-data-type=arc-stride/stride-arc, caliper reports the following
error:
HP Caliper: Explicit use of caliper pbo is not supported for collecting
edge profile using instrumentation on binaries built with +Oprofile=collect
compiler option.
Deletions
• The HTML reporting option is deleted. If HP Caliper is invoked using the --html option, the
following message is output:
HP Caliper: usage error:
--html option is no longer supported
Use the -o option for text reports or
Use the GUI to view the database.
Changes in release 5.0
New options and enhancements to options
The HP Caliper 5.0 release has been improved to provide performance analysis for Enterprise and
multi-tier applications
• HP Caliper can now generate reports from Caliper databases created on a different OS than
the one from which HP Caliper is reporting. You can now view measurement information on
a different system than that used to make the measurement.
• The –db-save option has a new argument, all, that specifies that symbols, code, and line
tables should be saved to the HP Caliper database. This information can then be used to
report without access to the original binaries. In addition, the other arguments now work
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