HP Caliper User Guide Release 5.5 (5900-2351, August 2012)

• Report-specific information dependent on the measurement type:
Event Counts for ecount◦
◦ Function Count Details for fcount
◦ Source Directory Summary, Source File Summary, and other function information for
fcover
◦ Call Graph and Function Indexes for scgprof and cgprof
◦ Hot Call Paths, Call Graph, and Function Indexes for cstack
• Blocking Primitives Summary
◦ Hot Call Paths, Call Graph, and Function Indexes for cstack
• Report Help
◦ A description of how to get help in understanding the report
• Diagnostic Messages (possibly)
See Table 7.
Table 7 Information in HP Caliper Reports Specific to Particular Types of Reports
These reports are unique.cgprof (HP-UX only)
The cgprof report is described in “cgprof Report Description
” (p. 178).
cstack
scgprof
The cstack report is described in Chapter 11 (page 133).
The scgprof report is described in “Producing a Sampled
Call Graph Profile Analysis” (p. 121) and “scgprof Measurement
Report Description” (p. 222).
These reports produce tables with the requested performance
information. The reports show aggregated values for all threads
ecount
fcount (HP-UX only)
of a multithreaded application. The reports show the results
by load module.
fcover (HP-UX only)
These reports follow the same pattern:alat
branch
• Thread Summary
dcache
• Load Module Summary for all threads
dtlb
fprof
• Function Summary for all threads
icache
• Function Details for all threads
itlb
• These sections, repeated for each thread:
traps
◦ Load Module Summary for one thread
◦ Function Summary for one thread
◦ Function Details for one thread with a source listing and,
if requested, disassembly listing
Metrics You Can Use for Report Sorting and Cutoffs
HP Caliper allows you to control how results are sorted and to control the amount of data reports
contain.
For most reports, you can control which metric to use for sorting and cutoffs. Specify the metric
with the --sort-by metric option. Specify the amount of data with the --detail-cutoff
and the --summary-cutoff options. These two options have parameters that let you specify
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