MDL: a language and compiler for dynamic program instrumentation

Proceedings 1997 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques Pub Date : 1997-11-11 DOI:10.1109/PACT.1997.644016

J. Hollingsworth, B. Miller, M. J. R. Gonçalves, Oscar Naim, Zhichen Xu, Ling Zheng

{"title":"MDL: a language and compiler for dynamic program instrumentation","authors":"J. Hollingsworth, B. Miller, M. J. R. Gonçalves, Oscar Naim, Zhichen Xu, Ling Zheng","doi":"10.1109/PACT.1997.644016","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We use a form of dynamic code generation, called dynamic instrumentation, to collect data about the execution of an application program. Dynamic instrumentation allows us to instrument running programs to collect performance and other types of information. The instrumentation code is generated incrementally and can be inserted and removed at any time. Our instrumentation currently runs on the SPARC, PA-RISC, Power 2, Alpha, and x86 architectures. Specification of what data to collect are written in a specialized language called the Metric Description Language, that is part of the Paradyn Parallel Performance Tools. This language allows platform independent descriptions of how to collect performance data. It also provides a concise way to specify, how to constrain performance data to particular resources such as modules, procedures, nodes, files, or message channels (or combinations of these resources). We also describe the details of how we weave instrumentation into a running program.","PeriodicalId":177411,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1997 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"127","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings 1997 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACT.1997.644016","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 127

Abstract

We use a form of dynamic code generation, called dynamic instrumentation, to collect data about the execution of an application program. Dynamic instrumentation allows us to instrument running programs to collect performance and other types of information. The instrumentation code is generated incrementally and can be inserted and removed at any time. Our instrumentation currently runs on the SPARC, PA-RISC, Power 2, Alpha, and x86 architectures. Specification of what data to collect are written in a specialized language called the Metric Description Language, that is part of the Paradyn Parallel Performance Tools. This language allows platform independent descriptions of how to collect performance data. It also provides a concise way to specify, how to constrain performance data to particular resources such as modules, procedures, nodes, files, or message channels (or combinations of these resources). We also describe the details of how we weave instrumentation into a running program.

查看原文本刊更多论文

MDL:用于动态程序插装的语言和编译器

我们使用一种称为动态插装的动态代码生成形式来收集有关应用程序执行的数据。动态检测允许我们检测正在运行的程序，以收集性能和其他类型的信息。插装代码是增量生成的，可以随时插入和删除。我们的仪器目前运行在SPARC、PA-RISC、Power 2、Alpha和x86架构上。收集什么数据的规范是用一种称为度量描述语言的专门语言编写的，这是parparyn并行性能工具的一部分。这种语言允许独立于平台的描述如何收集性能数据。它还提供了一种简洁的方式来指定如何将性能数据约束到特定的资源，如模块、过程、节点、文件或消息通道(或这些资源的组合)。我们还描述了如何将仪器编制到运行程序中的细节。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Proceedings 1997 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques

自引率

0.00%

发文量