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Tidy some language in the xray documentation.
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@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ Getting Traces
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By default, XRay does not write out the trace files or patch the application
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before main starts. If we just run ``llc`` it should just work like a normally
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built binary. However, if we want to get a full trace of the application's
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operations (of the functions we do end up instrumenting with XRay) then we need
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to enable XRay at application start. To do this, XRay checks the
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``XRAY_OPTIONS`` environment variable.
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before main starts. If we run ``llc`` it should work like a normally built
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binary. If we want to get a full trace of the application's operations (of the
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functions we do end up instrumenting with XRay) then we need to enable XRay
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at application start. To do this, XRay checks the ``XRAY_OPTIONS`` environment
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variable.
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::
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@ -73,9 +73,8 @@ instrumented, and how much time we're spending in parts of the code. To make
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sense of this data, we use the ``llvm-xray`` tool which has a few subcommands
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to help us understand our trace.
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One of the simplest things we can do is to get an accounting of the functions
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that have been instrumented. We can see an example accounting with ``llvm-xray
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account``:
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One of the things we can do is to get an accounting of the functions that have
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been instrumented. We can see an example accounting with ``llvm-xray account``:
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::
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@ -202,8 +201,7 @@ Given a trace, and optionally an instrumentation map, the ``llvm-xray stack``
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command can be used to analyze a call stack graph constructed from the function
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call timeline.
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The simplest way to use the command is simply to output the top stacks by call
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count and time spent.
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The way to use the command is to output the top stacks by call count and time spent.
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::
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@ -245,7 +243,7 @@ FlameGraph tool, currently available on `github
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To generate output for a flamegraph, a few more options are necessary.
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- ``-all-stacks`` - Emits all of the stacks instead of just the top stacks.
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- ``-all-stacks`` - Emits all of the stacks.
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- ``-stack-format`` - Choose the flamegraph output format 'flame'.
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- ``-aggregation-type`` - Choose the metric to graph.
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@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ When gathering XRay traces in Flight Data Recorder mode, each thread of an
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application will claim buffers to fill with trace data, which at some point
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is finalized and flushed.
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A goal of the profiler is to minimize overhead, so the flushed data directly
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A goal of the profiler is to minimize overhead, the flushed data directly
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corresponds to the buffer.
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This document describes the format of a trace file.
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@ -106,11 +106,11 @@ There are a few categories of data in the sequence.
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- ``Function Arguments``: The arguments to some functions are included in the
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trace. These are either pointer addresses or primitives that are read and
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logged independently of their types in a high level language. To the tracer,
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they are all simply numbers. Function Records that have attached arguments
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will indicate their presence on the function entry record. We only support
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logging contiguous function argument sequences starting with argument zero,
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which will be the "this" pointer for member function invocations. For example,
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we don't support logging the first and third argument.
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they are all numbers. Function Records that have attached arguments will
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indicate their presence on the function entry record. We only support logging
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contiguous function argument sequences starting with argument zero, which will
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be the "this" pointer for member function invocations. For example, we don't
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support logging the first and third argument.
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A reader of the memory format must maintain a state machine. The format makes no
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attempt to pad for alignment, and it is not seekable.
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