Intel® Inspector User Guide for Windows* OS

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Intel® Inspector User Guide for Windows* OS
Intel® Inspector User Guide for Windows* OS x
Get Started Before You Begin Set Up a Project Collecting Results Investigating Results Testing for Regressions Suppressions Support API Support Troubleshooting User Interface Reference Problem Type Reference Command Line Interface Support MPI Applications Support Appendix Notices and Disclaimers
Get Started x
Dynamic Analysis vs. Static Analysis Key Terminology Sample Applications and Tutorials Workflows-Quick Paths to Maximizing Productivity
Workflows-Quick Paths to Maximizing Productivity x
Analysis Workflow Reporting Workflow Regression Testing Workflow
Before You Begin x
Visual Studio* Integration Standalone Intel Inspector GUI Startup Tasks
Startup Tasks x
Change Result and Result Directory Name Templates Choose Baseline Results for Setting States Display Application Output
Set Up a Project x
Build Your Application Choose Projects Configure Projects
Build Your Application x
Configure Debug Mode for Applications in the Visual Studio* IDE Set Up Applications to Build in Debug Mode in the Visual Studio* IDE
Choose Projects x
Choose Projects in the StandaloneIntel Inspector GUI Choose Projects in the Visual Studio* IDE Create Projects in the StandaloneIntel Inspector GUI Create Solutions/Projects From Applications in the Visual Studio* IDE
Configure Projects x
Binary/Symbol Search and Source Search Locations Choose Data Sets Manage Suppression Rules Search Non-standard Directories Set Project Properties-Advanced Setting Target Application Properties-Basic
Collecting Results x
Configuring Analyses Running Analyses Examining Result Data During Analysis
Configuring Analyses x
Memory Error Analysis Types Threading Error Analysis Types Managing Custom Analysis Types
Running Analyses x
Running Memory Error and Threading Error Analyses Stopping Analyses
Examining Result Data During Analysis x
Finding Memory Leaks On Demand Measuring Memory Growth
Investigating Results x
Viewing Results Choosing Problems Interpreting Result Data and Resolving Issues Investigating Problems Using Interactive Debugging Collaborating on Results Exporting and Importing Files Comparing Results
Viewing Results x
About Viewing Results Managing Help Snippet Displays Opening Results Showing Result Summaries
Choosing Problems x
Deselecting Filter Criteria Refining the Source File Set Selecting Filter Criteria Selecting Problems
Interpreting Result Data and Resolving Issues x
Severity Levels States Accessing Explain Problem Help Changing States Customizing Frame Presentation Customizing Data Columns Editing Source Code
Investigating Problems Using Interactive Debugging x
Intel Inspector Debug Extensions in the Visual Studio* IDE Disabling and Re-enabling Problem Breakpoints Stopping Analyses During Interactive Debugging
Collaborating on Results x
State Merge Merging States Across Results Reporting Result Data
Exporting and Importing Files x
Exporting Archives Importing Archives and Other Files
Testing for Regressions x
Testing for Regressions: Recommended Approach Testing for Regressions: Other Approaches
Suppressions Support x
Suppressions Support Using the GUI Suppressions Support Using Handwritten Suppression Rules Suppressions Support Using Third-party Suppression Rules
Suppressions Support Using the GUI x
Typical Suppressions Usage Model Using the GUI Suppression Rule Reach in the GUI Suppression Rule Examples in the GUI Defining Suppression Rules in the GUI Deleting Suppression Rules Applied to Marked Result Data in the GUI
Suppressions Support Using Handwritten Suppression Rules x
Typical Suppressions Usage Models Using Handwritten Suppression Files Suppression Rule Syntax in Text Format Suppression Rule Examples in Text Format
Suppressions Support Using Third-party Suppression Rules x
Typical Suppressions Usage Models Using Third-party Suppression Files Third-party Suppression Files
API Support x
APIs for Custom Synchronization APIs for Custom Memory Allocation APIs for Collection Control
Troubleshooting x
Troubleshooting Anti-virus Software Issues Troubleshooting Application Crashes Troubleshooting Internal Thread Suspension Attempt Troubleshooting No Problems Detected Troubleshooting No Symbolic Information Troubleshooting OpenMP* Technology Issues Troubleshooting Out-of-memory Conditions Troubleshooting Tamper-resistance Issues Troubleshooting Unexpected Application Behavior During Memory Error Analyses
User Interface Reference x
Context Menus: Problem Details Pane Context Menus: Project Navigator Context Menus: Solution Explorer Context Menus: Sources Window Panes Context Menus: Summary Window Panes Dialog Box: Corresponding inspxe-cl Command Options Dialog Box: Create a Project Dialog Box: Create Suppression Dialog Box: Custom Analysis Dialog Box: Delete Suppressions Dialog Box: Disabled Problem Breakpoints Dialog Box: Export Result Dialog Box: Merge States Dialog Box: Options-General Dialog Box: Options-Result Location Dialog Box: Options-State Management Dialog Box: Problem Report Dialog Box: Project Properties-Binary/Symbol Search Dialog Box: Project Properties-Source Search Dialog Box: Project Properties-Suppressions Dialog Box: Project Properties-Target Dialog Box: Refine Source File Set Dialog Box: Select Stack Frame(s) Dialog Box: View Stack Hot Keys Pane: Analysis Type-Custom Pane: Analysis Type-Memory Errors Pane: Analysis Type-Threading Errors Pane: Application Output Pane: Code and Stack Pane: Code Locations Pane: Collection Log Pane: Collector Messages Pane: Compare Results Pane: Filters Pane: Import Result Pane: Launch Application Pane: Problem Details Pane: Problems Pane: Project Navigator Pane: Timeline Toolbar: Command Toolbar: Intel Inspector Toolbar: Navigation Window: Collection Log Window: Compare Results Window: Import Result Window: Sources Window: Summary After Analysis Is Complete Window: Summary During Analysis
Problem Type Reference x
Cross-thread Stack Access Data Race Deadlock GDI Resource Leak Incorrect memcpy Call Invalid Deallocation Invalid Memory Access Invalid Partial Memory Access Kernel Resource Leak Lock Hierarchy Violation Memory Growth Memory Leak Memory Not Deallocated Mismatched Allocation/Deallocation Missing Allocation Thread Exit Information Thread Start Information Unhandled Application Exception Uninitialized Memory Access Uninitialized Partial Memory Access
Command Line Interface Support x
Command Syntax Command Syntax Alternatives and Rules Command Line Output Collecting Result Data from the Command Line Working with Reports from the Command Line Working with Suppressions from the Command Line inspxe-cl Actions, Options and Arguments
Working with Reports from the Command Line x
Reporting Result Data from the Command Line Saving and Formatting Reports from the Command Line Interpreting Result Data from the Command Line
Working with Suppressions from the Command Line x
Creating a Suppress-All File from the Command Line Converting Third-Party Suppression Files from the Command Line Applying Suppression Files from the Command Line Workaround for Disabled Suppressions from the Command Line
inspxe-cl Actions, Options and Arguments x
app-working-dir archive-name baseline-result collect collect-with command convert-suppression-file create-suppression-file csv-delimiter executable-of-interest export filter finalize format help include-snippets include-sources import knob knob-list merge-states module-filter module-filter-mode no-auto-finalize no-summary option-file quiet report report-all report-output result-dir return-app-exitcode search-dir sort-asc sort-desc suppression-file user-data-dir verbose version
MPI Applications Support x
MPI Analysis Workflow Configure Installation Options Collect MPI Performance/Correctness Data Finalize MPI Collected Data View MPI Collected Data Example MPI Analysis Limitations Support of Non-Intel MPI Implementations Additional MPI Resources
Appendix x
Product Design Sample Code Caveats Intel Inspector Filenames and Locations Notational Conventions Related Information System APIs Supported During Memory Error Analysis System APIs Supported During Threading Error Analysis Evaluation Features
Intel® Inspector User Guide for Windows* OS

View MPI Collected Data

Once the results are collected, the user can open any of them in the standalone GUI or generate a command line report. Use inspxe-cl-help report or amplxe-cl-help report to see the options available for generating reports.

To view the results through GUI, launch the {amplxe | inspxe}-gui <result path> command or launch the *-gui tool and use the File > Open > Result... menu item to point to the result. Sometimes it is also convenient to copy the result to another system and view it there (for example, to open a result collected on a Linux cluster on a Windows workstation).

MPI functions are classified by the Intel® VTune™ Profiler as system ones making its level of support in this regard similar to Intel® oneAPI Threading Building Blocks (oneTBB) and OpenMP*. This helps the user to focus on his/her code rather than MPI internals.Intel VTune Profiler GUI Call Stack Mode and CLI -stack-mode switches can be used to turn on the mode where the system functions are displayed and thus the internals of the MPI implementation can be viewed and analyzed. The call stack mode User functions+1 is especially useful to find the MPI functions that consume most of CPU Time (Hotspots analysis) or waited the most (Locks and Waits analysis). For example, assume there is a call chain main() -> foo() -> MPI_Bar() -> MPI_Bar_Impl() -> ... where MPI_Bar() is the actual MPI API function you use and the deeper functions are MPI implementation details. The call stack modes behave as follows:

  • The default Only user functions call stack mode will attribute time spent in the MPI calls to the user function foo() so that you can see which of your functions you can change to actually improve the performance.

  • The User functions+1 mode will attribute the time spent in the MPI implementation to the top-level system function - MPI_Bar() so that you can easily see outstandingly heave MPI calls.

  • The User/system functions mode will show the call tree without any reattribution so that you can see where exactly in the Intel® MPI library the time was spent.

Intel VTune Profiler / Intel Inspector provide oneTBB and OpenMP support. It is recommended to use these thread-level parallel solutions in addition to MPI-style parallelism to maximize the CPU resource usage across the cluster, and to use the Intel VTune Profiler / Intel Inspector to analyze the performance / correctness of that level of parallelism. The MPI, OpenMP, and oneTBB features in the tools are functionally independent, so all usual features of OpenMP and oneTBB support are applicable when looking into a result collected for an MPI process.

Example

Here is an example of viewing the text report for functions and modules after a Intel VTune Profiler analysis (note that we open individual results each of which was collected for a specific rank of MPI process - foo.14 and foo.15 in the example above): 

$ amplxe-cl -R hotspots -q -format text -r foo.14
Function Module CPU Time
-------- ------ --------
f        a.out  6.070
main     a.out  2.990

$ amplxe-cl -R hotspots -q -format text -group-by module -r foo.14
Module CPU Time
------ --------
a.out  9.060
Parent topic: MPI Applications Support
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