Intel® VTune™ Profiler

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Document Table of Contents x
User Guide
User Guide x
Introduction Install Intel® VTune™ Profiler Open Intel® VTune™ Profiler Set Up Project Set Up Analysis Target Analyze Performance Intel® VTune™ Profiler Command Line Interface API Support Troubleshooting Reference Notices and Disclaimers
Introduction x
Tuning Methodology Tutorials and Samples Notational Conventions Get Help Product Website and Support Related Information
Install Intel® VTune™ Profiler x
Sampling Drivers Set Up System for GPU Analysis Verify Intel® VTune™ Profiler Installation Install VTune Profiler Server Security Best Practices
Set Up System for GPU Analysis x
Rebuild and Install the Kernel for GPU Analysis Rebuild and Install Module i915 for GPU Analysis on CentOS* Rebuild and Install Module i915 for GPU Analysis on Ubuntu*
Install VTune Profiler Server x
Set Up Transport Security Configure User Authentication/Authorization
Open Intel® VTune™ Profiler x
Get Started with Intel® VTune™ Profiler Intel® VTune™ Profiler Graphical User Interface Web Server Interface Microsoft Visual Studio* Integration Eclipse* and Intel System Studio IDE Integration Containerization Support
Containerization Support x
Run VTune Profiler in a Container Profile Container Targets from the Host
Set Up Project x
WHERE: Analysis System WHAT: Analysis Target HOW: Analysis Types Search Directories
WHERE: Analysis System x
Analysis System Options
WHAT: Analysis Target x
Analysis Target Options
Search Directories x
Search Order
Set Up Analysis Target x
Prepare Application for Analysis Windows* Targets Linux* Targets Embedded Linux* Targets FreeBSD* Targets QNX* Targets Managed Code Targets Android* Targets Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor Targets Targets in Virtualized Environments Targets in a Cloud Environment Arbitrary Targets Embedded System Targets
Windows* Targets x
Install the Sampling Drivers for Windows* Targets Debug Information for Windows* Application Binaries Compiler Switches for Performance Analysis on Windows* Targets Debug Information for Windows* System Libraries Add Administrative Privileges
Linux* Targets x
Build and Install the Sampling Drivers for Linux* Targets Install Drivers on Linux* Host Systems Check Sampling Driver Installation Verify Kernel Configuration Build the Sampling Driver Install the Sampling Drivers See Also Debug Information for Linux* Application Binaries Compiler Switches for Performance Analysis on Linux* Targets Enable Linux* Kernel Analysis Resolution of Symbol Names for Linux-Loadable Kernel Modules Analyze Statically Linked Binaries on Linux* Targets Set Up Remote Linux* Target
Set Up Remote Linux* Target x
Set Up Linux* System for Remote Analysis Configure SSH Access for Remote Collection Search Directories for Remote Linux* Targets Temporary Directory for Performance Results on Linux* Targets
Embedded Linux* Targets x
Configure Yocto Project* and VTune Profiler with the Integration Layer Configure Yocto Project*/Wind River* Linux* and Intel® VTune™ Profiler with the Intel System Studio Integration Layer Configure Yocto Project* and Intel® VTune™ Profiler with the Linux* Target Package
FreeBSD* Targets x
Set Up FreeBSD* System
Managed Code Targets x
.NET* Targets Windows Store Application Targets Go* Application Targets
Android* Targets x
Build and Install Sampling Drivers for Android* Targets Set Up Android* System Enable Java* Analysis on Android* System Prepare an Android* Application for Analysis Analyze Unplugged Devices Search Directories for Android* Targets
Targets in Virtualized Environments x
Profile Targets on a VMware* Guest System Profile Targets on a Parallels* Guest System Profile Targets on a KVM* Guest System Profile Targets on a Xen* Virtualization Platform Profile Targets in the Hyper-V* Environment
Profile Targets on a KVM* Guest System x
Profile KVM Kernel Modules from the Host Profile KVM Kernel and User Space on the KVM System Profile KVM Kernel and User Space from the Host
Analyze Performance x
User-Mode Sampling and Tracing Collection Hardware Event-based Sampling Collection Performance Snapshot Algorithm Group Microarchitecture Analysis Group Parallelism Analysis Group Input and Output Analysis Accelerators Analysis Group Platform Analysis Group Platform Analysis Hybrid CPU Analysis Source Code Analysis Custom Analysis Energy Analysis Code Profiling Scenarios Control Data Collection Manage Data Views Manage Result Files
Hardware Event-based Sampling Collection x
Allow Multiple Runs or Multiplex Events Hardware Event-based Sampling Collection with Stacks
Algorithm Group x
Hotspots Analysis for CPU Usage Issues Anomaly Detection Analysis (preview) Memory Consumption Analysis
Hotspots Analysis for CPU Usage Issues x
Hotspots View
Anomaly Detection Analysis (preview) x
Anomaly Detection View
Memory Consumption Analysis x
Memory Consumption and Allocations View
Microarchitecture Analysis Group x
Microarchitecture Exploration Analysis for Hardware Issues Memory Access Analysis for Cache Misses and High Bandwidth Issues
Microarchitecture Exploration Analysis for Hardware Issues x
Microarchitecture Exploration View Microarchitecture Pipe
Memory Access Analysis for Cache Misses and High Bandwidth Issues x
Memory Usage View
Parallelism Analysis Group x
Threading Analysis HPC Performance Characterization Analysis
Threading Analysis x
Threading Efficiency View
HPC Performance Characterization Analysis x
HPC Performance Characterization View
Input and Output Analysis x
Analyze Platform Performance Analyze DPDK Applications Analyze SPDK Applications Analyze Linux Kernel I/O
Accelerators Analysis Group x
GPU Offload Analysis GPU Compute/Media Hotspots Analysis (Preview) CPU/FPGA Interaction Analysis NPU Exploration Analysis (Preview)
GPU Compute/Media Hotspots Analysis (Preview) x
GPU Compute/Media Hotspots View
CPU/FPGA Interaction Analysis x
CPU/FPGA Interaction View
NPU Exploration Analysis (Preview) x
NPU Exploration View
Platform Analysis Group x
System Overview Analysis
System Overview Analysis x
Analyze Interrupts Analyze Latency Issues
Custom Analysis x
Custom Analysis Options
Custom Analysis Options x
Highly Accurate CPU Time Data Collection Hardware Event List Linux* and Android* Kernel Analysis Sampling Interval Sample After Value
Hardware Event List x
Hardware Event Skid Instructions Retired Event Precise Events
Energy Analysis x
Run Energy Analysis View Energy Analysis Data with Intel® VTune™ Profiler Interpret Energy Analysis Data with Intel® VTune™ Profiler
Code Profiling Scenarios x
Java* Code Analysis Python* Code Analysis Intel® Threading Building Blocks Code Analysis MPI Code Analysis OpenSHMEM* Code Analysis with Fabric Profiler GPU Application Analysis on Intel® HD Graphics and Intel® Iris® Graphics Frame Data Analysis Task Analysis
GPU Application Analysis on Intel® HD Graphics and Intel® Iris® Graphics x
GPU OpenCL™ Application Analysis Intel® Media SDK Program Analysis
Control Data Collection x
Finalization Pause Data Collection Limit Data Collection Generate Command Line Configuration from GUI Minimize Collection Overhead Import External Data
Import External Data x
Use a Custom Collector Create a CSV File with External Data Import Linux Perf* Trace with VTune Profiler Metrics Examples of CSV Format and Imported Data
Manage Data Views x
Switch Viewpoints Control Window Synchronization View Stacks Manage Grid Views Manage Timeline View Change Threshold Values Choose Data Format Group and Filter Data View Data on Inline Functions Analyze Loops Stitch Stacks for Intel® oneAPI Threading Building Blocks or OpenMP* Analysis Search for Data
View Stacks x
Call Stack Mode Metrics Distribution Over Call Stacks
Manage Result Files x
VTune Profiler Filenames and Locations Import Results and Traces into VTune Profiler GUI Compare Results
Compare Results x
Compare Source Code View Comparison Data
View Comparison Data x
Comparison Summary Bottom-up Comparison Top-down Tree Comparison
Intel® VTune™ Profiler Command Line Interface x
vtune Command Syntax vtune Actions Run Command Line Analysis Work with Results from Command Line Generate Command Line Reports Command Line Usage Scenarios Command Line Interface Reference Report Problems from Command Line
Run Command Line Analysis x
performance-snapshot Command Line Analysis hotspots Command Line Analysis anomaly-detection Command Line Analysis threading Command Line Analysis memory-consumption Command Line Analysis hpc-performance Command Line Analysis uarch-exploration Command Line Analysis memory-access Command Line Analysis tsx-exploration Command Line Analysis tsx-hotspots Command Line Analysis sgx-hotspots Command Line Analysis gpu-hotspots Command Line Analysis gpu-offload Command Line Analysis npu graphics-rendering Command Line Analysis fpga-interaction Command Line Analysis io Command Line Analysis system-overview Command Line Analysis runsa/runss Custom Command Line Analysis Configure Analysis Options from Command Line
Configure Analysis Options from Command Line x
Collect System-Wide Data from Command Line Collect Data on Remote Linux* Systems from Command Line Configure GPU Analysis from Command Line Specify Search Directories from Command Line Specify Result Directory from Command Line Pause Collection from Command Line Manage Analysis Duration from Command Line Limit Data Collection from Command Line
Work with Results from Command Line x
View Command Line Results in the GUI Import Results from Command Line Re-finalize Results from Command Line
Generate Command Line Reports x
Summary Report Hotspots Report Hardware Events Report Callstacks Report Timeline Report Top-down Report GPU Compute/Media Hotspots Report gprof-cc Report Difference Report View Source Objects from Command Line Save and Format Command Line Reports Filter and Group Command Line Reports
Command Line Usage Scenarios x
Use VTune Profiler Server in Containers Android* Target Analysis from the Command Line OpenMP* Analysis from the Command Line Java* Code Analysis from the Command Line
Command Line Interface Reference x
Option Descriptions and General Rules allow-multiple-runs analyze-kvm-guest analyze-system app-working-dir archive call-stack-mode collect collect-with column command cpu-mask csv-delimiter cumulative-threshold-percent custom-collector data-limit discard-raw-data duration filter finalization-mode finalize format group-by help import inline-mode knob kvm-guest-kallsyms kvm-guest-modules limit loop-mode mrte-mode no-follow-child no-summary no-unplugged-mode quiet report report-knob report-output report-width result-dir resume-after return-app-exitcode ring-buffer search-dir show-as sort-asc sort-desc source-object source-search-dir stack-size start-paused strategy target-install-dir target-system target-tmp-dir target-duration-type target-pid target-process time-filter trace-mpi user-data-dir verbose version
API Support x
Instrumentation and Tracing Technology APIs JIT Profiling API System APIs Supported by Intel® VTune™ Profiler
Instrumentation and Tracing Technology APIs x
Basic Usage and Configuration Instrumentation and Tracing Technology API Reference
Basic Usage and Configuration x
Configure Your Build System Attach ITT APIs to a Launched Application Instrument Your Application Minimize ITT API Overhead View Instrumentation and Tracing Technology (ITT) API Task Data in Intel® VTune™ Profiler
Instrumentation and Tracing Technology API Reference x
Domain API String Handle API Collection Control API Thread Naming API Task API Frame API Histogram API User-Defined Synchronization API Event API Counter API Context Metadata API Load Module API Memory Allocation APIs
JIT Profiling API x
Using JIT Profiling API JIT Profiling API Reference
JIT Profiling API Reference x
iJIT_NotifyEvent iJIT_IsProfilingActive iJIT_ GetNewMethodID
Troubleshooting x
Best Practices: Resolve Intel® VTune™ Profiler BSODs, Crashes, and Hangs in Windows* OS Error Message: Application Sets Its Own Handler for Signal Error Message: Cannot Enable Event-Based Sampling Collection Error Message: Cannot Collect GPU Hardware Metrics Error Message: Cannot Load Data File Error Message: Cannot Locate Debugging Information Error Message: Cannot Open Data Error Message: Client Is Not Authorized to Connect to Server Error Message: Root Privileges Required for Processor Graphics Events Error Message: No Pre-built Driver Exists for This System Error Message: Not All OpenCL™ API Profiling Callbacks Are Received Error Message: Problem Accessing the Sampling Driver Error Message: Required Key Not Available Error Message: Scope of ptrace System Call Is Limited Error Message: Stack Size Is Too Small Error Message: Symbol File Is Not Found Problem: Analysis of the .NET* Application Fails Problem: Cannot Access VTune Profiler Documentation Problem: CPU time for Hotspots or Threading Analysis is Too Low Problem: 'Events= Sample After Value (SAV) * Samples' Is Not True If Multiple Runs Are Disabled Problem: Guessed Stack Frames Problem: GUI Hangs or Crashes Problem: Inaccurate Sum in the Grid Problem: Information Collected via ITT API Is Not Available When Attaching to a Process Problem: No GPU Utilization Data Is Collected Problem: Same Functions Are Compared As Different Instances Problem: Skipped Stack Frames Problem: Stack in the Top-Down Tree Window Is Incorrect Problem: Stacks in Call Stack and Bottom-Up Panes Are Different Problem: System Functions Appear in the User Functions Only Mode Problem: VTune Profiler is Slow to Respond When Collecting or Displaying Data Problem: VTune Profiler is Slow on X-Servers with SSH Connection Problem: Unexpected Paused Time Problem: {Unknown Timer} in the Platform Power Analysis Viewpoint Problem: Unknown Critical Error Due to Disabled Loopback Interface Problem: Unknown Frames Problem: Unsupported Microsoft* Windows* OS Warnings about Accurate CPU Time Collection
Reference x
User Interface Reference CPU Metrics Reference GPU Metrics Reference OpenCL™ Kernel Analysis Metrics Reference Energy Analysis Metrics Reference Intel Processor Events Reference
User Interface Reference x
Context Menu: Grid Context Menus: Call Stack Pane Context Menus: Project Navigator Context Menus: Source/Assembly Window Dialog Box: Binary/Symbol Search Dialog Box: Source Search Hot Keys Menu: Customize Grouping Menu: Intel VTune Profiler Pane: Call Stack Pane: Options - General Pane: Options - Result Location Pane: Options - Source/Assembly Project Navigator Pane: Timeline Toolbar: Configure Analysis Toolbar: Filter Toolbar: Source/Assembly Toolbar: Intel VTune Profiler Window: Bandwidth - Platform Power Analysis Window: Bottom-up Window: Caller/Callee Window: Cannot Find <file type> File Window: Collection Log Window: Compare Results Window: Configure Analysis Window: Core Wake-ups - Platform Power Analysis Window: Correlate Metrics - Platform Power Analysis Window: CPU C/P States - Platform Power Analysis Window: Debug Window: Event Count - Hardware Events Window: Flame Graph Window: Graphics - GPU Compute/Media Hotspots Window: Graphics C/P States - Platform Power Analysis Window: NC Device States - Platform Power Analysis Window: Platform Window: Platform Power Analysis Window: Sample Count - Hardware Events Window: SC Device States - Platform Power Analysis Window: Summary Window: System Sleep States - Platform Power Analysis Window: Temperature/Thermal Sample - Platform Power Analysis Window: Timer Resolution - Platform Power Analysis Window: Top-down Tree Window: Uncore Event Count - Hardware Events Window: Wakelocks - Platform Power Analysis
Window: Summary x
Window: Summary - Input and Output Summary Window: Summary - Microarchitecture Exploration Window: Summary - GPU Analysis Window: Summary - Hardware Events Window: Summary - Hotspots by CPU Utilization Window: Summary - HPC Performance Characterization Window: Summary - Memory Consumption Window: Summary - Memory Usage Window: Summary - Platform Power Analysis
GPU Metrics Reference x
ALU0 Active ALU0 Instructions ALU1 Active ALU1 Instructions ALU2 Active ALU2 Instructions ALU0 and ALU1 Active ALU0 and ALU2 Active Average Time Computing Threads Started Computing Threads Started, Threads/sec CPU Time EU 2 FPU Pipelines Active EU Array Active EU Array Idle EU Array Stalled/Idle EU Array Stalled EU IPC Rate EU Send pipeline active EU Threads Occupancy Host to GPU Memory Read Bandwidth Host-to-GPU Memory Write Bandwidth Global GPU EU Array Usage GPU L3 Bound GPU L3 Miss Ratio GPU L3 Misses GPU L3 Misses, Misses/sec GPU Memory Read Bandwidth, GB/sec GPU Memory Texture Read Bandwidth, GB/sec GPU Memory Write Bandwidth, GB/sec GPU Texel Quads Count, Count/sec GPU Utilization Instance Count L3 Read Bandwidth L3 Write Bandwidth L3 Sampler Bandwidth, GB/sec L3 Shader Bandwidth, GB/sec LLC Miss Rate due GPU Lookups LLC Miss Ratio due GPU Lookups Local Maximum GPU Utilization Occupancy PS EU Active % PS EU Stall % Ratio to Max Bandwidth, % Ratio to Max Bandwidth, % Ratio to Max Bandwidth, % Render/GPGPU Command Streamer Loaded Samples Blended Samples Killed in PS, pixels Samples Written Sampler Busy Sampler Is Bottleneck Shared Local Memory Read Bandwidth, GB/sec Shared Local Memory Write Bandwidth, GB/sec SIMD Width Stack-to-stack Incoming Bandwidth Stack-to-stack Outgoing Bandwidth System Memory Read Bandwidth System Memory Write Bandwidth Size Total, GB/sec Total Time Typed Memory Read Bandwidth, GB/sec Typed Memory Write Bandwidth, GB/sec Typed Reads Coalescence Typed Writes Coalescence Untyped Memory Read Bandwidth, GB/sec Untyped Memory Write Bandwidth, GB/sec Untyped Reads Coalescence Untyped Writes Coalescence VS EU Active VS EU Stall
OpenCL™ Kernel Analysis Metrics Reference x
Computing Task Total Time Instance Count SIMD Width SIMD Utilization Work Size
Energy Analysis Metrics Reference x
Available Core Time C-State D0ix States DRAM Self Refresh Energy Consumed (mJ) Idle Wake-ups P-State S0ix States Temperature Timer Resolution Total Time in C0 State Total Time in Non-C0 States Total Time in S0 State Total Wake-up Count Wake-ups Wake-ups/sec per Core
User Guide

Build and Install the Sampling Drivers for Linux* Targets

Prerequisites for remote Linux target systems: You must have root access to the target system.

Prerequisites for all Linux systems: Sampling driver sources. You can find the sampling driver sources for the local system in the <install_dir>/sepdk folder of your VTune Profiler installation. For remote targets, locate the target packages for the desired system in the <install_dir>/target folder of your installation, copy the package to the target system, extract it, and build the driver.

Install Drivers on Linux* Host Systems

During product installation on a host Linux OS, you can control the installation options for drivers with settings in Advanced Options. VTune Profiler provides the following options:

Use This Option

To Do This

Sampling driver install type [build driver (default) / driver kit files only ]

Choose the driver installation option. By default, VTune Profiler uses the Sampling Driver Kit to build the driver for your kernel. You may change the option to driver kit files only if you want to build the driver manually after installation.

Driver access group [ vtune (default) ]

Set the driver access group ownership to determine which set of users can perform the collection on the system. By default, the group is vtune. Access to this group is not restricted. To restrict access, see the Driver permissions option below. You may set your own group during installation in the Advanced options or change it manually after installation by executing: ./boot-script -–group <your_group> from the <install-dir>/sepdk/src directory.

Driver permissions [ 660 (default) ]

Change permissions for the driver. By default, only a vtune group user can access the driver. Using this access the user can profile the system, an application, or attach to a process.

Load driver [ yes (default) ]

Load the driver into the kernel.

Install boot script [ yes (default) ]

Use a boot script that loads the driver into the kernel each time the system is rebooted. The boot script can be disabled later by executing: ./boot-script --uninstall from the <install-dir>/sepdk/src directory.

Enable per-user collection mode [no (default) / yes]

Install the hardware event-based collector driver with the per-user filtering on. When the filtering is on, the collector gathers data only for the processes spawned by the user who started the collection. When it is off (default), samples from all processes on the system are collected. Consider using the filtering to isolate the collection from other users on a cluster for security reasons. The administrator/root can change the filtering mode by rebuilding/restarting the driver at any time. A regular user cannot change the mode after the product is installed.

NOTE:

For MPI application analysis on a Linux* cluster, you may enable the Per-user Hardware Event-based Sampling mode when installing the Intel Parallel Studio XE Cluster Edition. This option ensures that during the collection the VTune Profiler collects data only for the current user. Once enabled by the administrator during the installation, this mode cannot be turned off by a regular user, which is intentional to preclude individual users from observing the performance data over the whole node including activities of other users.

After installation, you can use the respective vars.sh files to set up the appropriate environment (PATH, MANPATH) in the current terminal session.

Driver build options …

Specify the location of the kernel header files on this system, the path and name of the C compiler to use for building the driver, the path and name of the make command to use for building the driver.

Check Sampling Driver Installation

To verify that the sampling driver is installed correctly on the host Linux system:

  1. Check whether the sampling drivers are installed:

    $ cd <install-dir>/sepdk/src

    $ ./insmod-sep -q

    This provides information on whether the drivers are currently loaded and, if so, what the group ownership and file permissions are on the driver devices.

  2. Check group permissions.

    If drivers are loaded, but you are not a member of the group listed in the query output, request your system administrator to add you to the group. By default, the driver access group is vtune. To check which groups you belong to, type groups at the command line. This is only required if the permissions are other than 666.

NOTE:

If there is no collection in progress, there is no execution time overhead of having the driver loaded and very little overhead for memory usage. You can let the system module be automatically loaded at boot time (for example, via the install-boot-script script, used by default). Unless the data is being collected by the VTune Profiler, there will be no latency impact on the system performance.

Verify Kernel Configuration

To verify kernel configuration:

  1. Make sure that the kernel header sources are present on your host system. The kernel version should be 2.6.28 or later. To find the kernel version, explore kernel-src-dir/include/linux/utsrelease.h, or, depending on the kernel version: kernel-src-dir/include/generated/utsrelease.h. For more details, see the README.txt file in the sepdk/src directory.

  2. Make sure the following options are enabled in the kernel configuration for hardware event-based sampling (EBS) collection:

    • CONFIG_MODULES=y

    • CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y

    • CONFIG_PROFILING=y(kernel versions 5.16 or older)

    • CONFIG_SMP=y

    • CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y

    • CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y (required for kernel versions 5.17 and newer; recommended for all other versions)

    • CONFIG_KPROBES=y(kernel versions 5.17 and newer)

  3. In addition to the options above, make sure the following options are enabled in the kernel configuration for EBS collection with stacks:

    • CONFIG_KRETPROBES=y

    • CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y (optional but recommended for Call Stack Mode)

  4. For remote target systems, determine if signed kernel modules are required (CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE=y). If they are, you must have the signed key that matches your target system.

    If you are building the sampling drivers from a fresh kernel source and want to use it for an existing target system, get the original key files and sign the sampling driver with the original key. Alternatively, build the new kernel and flash it to the target device so the target device uses your kernel build.

Build the Sampling Driver

Prerequisites:

  • You need kernel header sources and other additional software to build and load the kernel drivers on Linux. Refer to the Verify kernel configuration section.

  • To cross-build drivers for a remote target Linux system, extract the package from the <install-dir>/target folder to <extract_dir>.

NOTE:

If the current version of the sampling driver that is shipped with the VTune Profiler installation does not suit your needs, for example, due to a recent change in the Linux* kernel, you can find the latest version of the sampling driver on the Sampling Driver Downloads page.

To build the driver if it is missing:

  1. Change the directory to locate the build script:

    • To build drivers for a local system: $ cd <install-dir>/sepdk/src

    • To cross-build drivers for a remote target system: $ cd <extract-dir>/sepdk/src

  2. Use the build-driver script to build the drivers for your kernel. For example:

  • $ ./build-driver

    The script prompts the build option default for your local system.

  • $ ./build-driver -ni

    The script builds the driver for your local system with default options without prompting for your input.

  • $ ./build-driver -ni -pu

    The script builds the driver with the per-user event-based sampling collection enabled, without prompting for your input.

  • $ ./build-driver -ni \

    --c-compiler=i586-i586-xxx-linux-gcc \

    --kernel-version="<kernel-version>" \

    --kernel-src-dir=<kernel-source-dir> \

    --make-args="PLATFORM=x32 ARITY=smp"

    --install-dir=<path>

    The script builds the drivers with a specified cross-compiler for a specific kernel version. This is usually used for the cross-build for a remote target system on the current host. This example uses the following options:

    • -ni disables the interactive during the build.

    • --c-compiler specifies the cross build compiler. The compiler should be available from the PATH environment. If the option is not specified, the host GCC compiler is used for the build.

    • --kernel-version specifies the kernel version of the target system. It should match the uname -r output of your target system and the UTS_RELEASE in kernel-src-dir/include/generated/utsrelease.h or kernel-src-dir/include/linux/utsrelease.h, depending on your kernel version.

    • --kernel-src-dir specifies the kernel source directory.

    • --make-args specifies the build arguments. For a 32-bit target system, use PLATFORM=x32. For a 64-bit target system, use PLATFORM=x32_64

    • --install-dir specifies the path to a writable directory where the drivers and scripts are copied after the build succeeds.

Use ./build-driver -h to get the detailed help message on the script usage.

To build the sampling driver as RPM using build services such as Open Build Service (OBS):

Use the sepdk.spec file located at the <install-dir>/sepdk/src directory.

Install the Sampling Drivers

Prerequisites for remote target systems: Copy the sepdk/src folder or the folder specified by the --install-dir option when building the driver to the target system using ssh, ftp, adb, sdb, or other supported means.

To install the drivers:

  1. If building the drivers succeeds, install them manually with the insmod-sep script:

    $ cd <install_dir>/sepdk/src

    $ ./insmod-sep -r -g <group>

    where <group> is the group of users that have access to the driver.

    To install the driver that is built with the per-user event-based sampling collection on, use the -pu (-per-user) option as follows:

    $ ./insmod-sep -g <group> -pu

    If you are running on a resource-restricted environment, add the -re option as follows:

    $ ./insmod-sep -re

  2. Enable the Linux system to automatically load the drivers at boot time:

    $ cd <install_dir>/sepdk/src

    To install the driver that is built with the per-user event-based sampling collection on, use the -pu (-per-user) option as follows:

    $ ./boot-script --install -g <group> -pu

    The -g <group> option is only required if you want to override the group specified when the driver was built.

To remove the driver on a Linux system, run:

./rmmod-sep -s

Parent topic: Linux* Targets
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