[llvm-dev] [llvm-xray] llvm-xray cannot log every functions (original) (raw)

Dean Michael Berris via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Feb 1 20:02:31 PST 2019

On 2 Feb 2019, at 12:01, Shang, Zitong <zus223 at psu.edu> wrote:

Dear Dean, Thank you very much for the quick reply, but I still cannot get the trace log work correctly. I used the command $XRAYBASICOPTIONS='funcdurationthreshold=0' XRAYOPTIONS='patchpremain=true xraymode=xray-basic verbosity=1' ./matrix to generate log. And used the command $llvm-xray convert -f yaml -symbolize -instrmap=./matrix xray-log.matrix.EVdnlj to let the log become readable. However, it still does not show up the multiply function that I defined in the program. Is there anything else that I did wrongly?

Are you sure the function isn’t being in-lined into the main function?

You can take some steps to move the definition of the function to a different translation unit (a different .c and which compiles into a different .o) to potentially inhibit the in-lining of the function you want instrumented. As I noted in my previous reply:

"The other potential explanation here is function inlining — if it just so happens that the function is inlined, it could still be marked "instrumented” in the instrumentation map, but only because there could be a “comdat” version of the function just-in-case the address of the function gets taken. Instrumented functions that are inlined don’t get the instrumentation, because the inlining happens at the LLVM IR level rather than the machine code level (where XRay instrumentation gets added).”

Hope that helps.

-- Dean

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