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1 | .\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
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25 | .\" Modified Fri Jun 23 01:35:19 1995 Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> | |
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4b8c67d9 | 28 | .TH PROFIL 3 2017-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
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29 | .SH NAME |
30 | profil \- execution time profile | |
31 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
9ccfb102 | 32 | .nf |
fea681da | 33 | .B #include <unistd.h> |
68e4db0a | 34 | .PP |
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35 | .BI "int profil(unsigned short *" buf ", size_t " bufsiz , |
36 | .BI " size_t " offset ", unsigned int " scale ); | |
68e4db0a | 37 | .PP |
9ccfb102 | 38 | .fi |
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39 | .in -4n |
40 | Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see | |
41 | .BR feature_test_macros (7)): | |
42 | .in | |
68e4db0a | 43 | .PP |
cc4615cc | 44 | .BR profil (): |
2c767761 | 45 | .nf |
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46 | Since glibc 2.21: |
47 | .\" commit 266865c0e7b79d4196e2cc393693463f03c90bd8 | |
48 | _DEFAULT_SOURCE | |
49 | In glibc 2.19 and 2.20: | |
50 | _DEFAULT_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE\ <\ 500) | |
51 | Up to and including glibc 2.19: | |
52 | _BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE\ <\ 500) | |
53 | .fi | |
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54 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
55 | This routine provides a means to find out in what areas your program | |
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56 | spends most of its time. |
57 | The argument | |
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58 | .I buf |
59 | points to | |
60 | .I bufsiz | |
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61 | bytes of core. |
62 | Every virtual 10 milliseconds, the user's program counter (PC) | |
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63 | is examined: |
64 | .I offset | |
65 | is subtracted and the result is multiplied by | |
0daa9e92 | 66 | .I scale |
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67 | and divided by 65536. |
68 | If the resulting value is less than | |
69 | .IR bufsiz , | |
70 | then the corresponding entry in | |
71 | .I buf | |
72 | is incremented. | |
73 | If | |
74 | .I buf | |
75 | is NULL, profiling is disabled. | |
47297adb | 76 | .SH RETURN VALUE |
fea681da | 77 | Zero is always returned. |
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78 | .SH ATTRIBUTES |
79 | For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see | |
80 | .BR attributes (7). | |
81 | .TS | |
82 | allbox; | |
83 | lb lb lb | |
84 | l l l. | |
85 | Interface Attribute Value | |
86 | T{ | |
87 | .BR profil () | |
88 | T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe | |
89 | .TE | |
847e0d88 | 90 | .sp 1 |
47297adb | 91 | .SH CONFORMING TO |
7230317f | 92 | Similar to a call in SVr4 (but not POSIX.1). |
fea681da | 93 | .SH BUGS |
e511ffb6 | 94 | .BR profil () |
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95 | cannot be used on a program that also uses |
96 | .B ITIMER_PROF | |
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97 | interval timers (see |
98 | .BR setitimer (2)). | |
847e0d88 | 99 | .PP |
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100 | True kernel profiling provides more accurate results. |
101 | Libc 4.4 contained a kernel patch providing a system call profil. | |
47297adb | 102 | .SH SEE ALSO |
fea681da | 103 | .BR gprof (1), |
5f97eb3b | 104 | .BR sprof (1), |
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105 | .BR setitimer (2), |
106 | .BR sigaction (2), | |
107 | .BR signal (2) |