HP UX Caliper Software manual Hot Call Paths Part of the Report

Example 4 Sample cstack Report - Blocking Primitives Details

Blocking Primitives Details (All Threads)

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					Sample	Callpath	Holder's
% Total	Sample	Sample	Sample		Hits	Index	Kernel
Hits	Hits	Hits	Hits	Blocking	For Holder	Holder	Thread
Waiting	Waiting	Spinning	Blocked	Primitive	--For Waiter	--Waiter	ID

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20.00	20	0	20	mutex@counter_lock1
				20	0	4206064@t1func
				20		2
10.00	10	0	10	mutex@counter_lock2
				10	3	4206065@t2func
				10		4

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[Minimum primitives: 10, Percent cutoff: 1.00, cumulative percent cutoff: 100.00]

Hot Call Paths (All Threads)

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	--% Total Hits In Only--
	Run +	Run	Block
Index	Block	Hits	Hits	Name
	Hits	Only	Only
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0	30.0	0.0	30.0	libc.so.1::__sigtimedwait_sys [2]
				libc.so.1::sigtimedwait [4]
				libc.so.1::_sleep [3]
				mutex.hpux.64::t1func [8]
				libpthread.so.1::__pthread_bound_body [6]
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1	20.0	0.0	20.0	libc.so.1::__sigtimedwait_sys [2]
				libc.so.1::sigtimedwait [4]
				libc.so.1::_sleep [3]
				mutex.hpux.64::main [5]
				dld.so::main_opd_entry [7]
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2	20.0	0.0	20.0	libc.so.1::__ksleep { mutex@counter_lock1 } [9]
				libpthread.so.1::__mxn_sleep [13]
				libpthread.so.1::*unnamed@0x400000000006(8bf0-e480)* [12]
				libpthread.so.1::pthread_mutex_lock [11]
				mutex.hpux.64::mfunc [10]
				mutex.hpux.64::main [5]
				dld.so::main_opd_entry [7]
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3	20.0	0.0	20.0	libc.so.1::__sigtimedwait_sys [2]
				libc.so.1::sigtimedwait [4]
				libc.so.1::_sleep [3]
				mutex.hpux.64::t2func [14]
				libpthread.so.1::__pthread_bound_body [6]
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4	10.0	0.0	10.0	libc.so.1::__ksleep { mutex@counter_lock2 } [9]
				libpthread.so.1::__mxn_sleep [13]
				libpthread.so.1::*unnamed@0x400000000006(8bf0-e480)* [12]
				libpthread.so.1::pthread_mutex_lock [11]
				mutex.hpux.64::mfunc [10]
				mutex.hpux.64::main [5]
				dld.so::main_opd_entry [7]

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[Minimum function entries: 5, percent cutoff: 1.00, cumulative percent cutoff: 100.00]

The 'Blocking Primitives Details' section has holder and waiter thread details for a mutex. For other primitives, holder and waiter details will not be reported. In an application, a mutex can be held by many threads, and while a thread is holding a mutex, there may be many waiter threads.

Activity of holder and waiter threads is reported with their call-paths, indexed in the 'Hot Call Paths' section. A holder thread is reported with a kernel thread ID suffixed with the the name of the routine that the thread will execute once it is created.

Hot Call Paths Part of the Report

This section reports the hottest call paths. A call path represents a subset of the program's execution. The Hot Call Paths section reports the percentage of program's real time that is attributed to specific call paths. You can use the --callpath-cutoffoption to specify cutoff values that limit the hot call paths reported in this section. You can also use the --sort-byoption to specify the metric you want to be used for sorting and cutoffs. See “--callpath-cutoff ” (page 55) and “--sort-by” (page 71).

You can designate one or more functions as being of no interest using the --skip-functionsoption. If a call stack sample contains this function as a leaf routine, it will be skipped while reporting the call stack profile. See “--skip-functions ” (page 71).

148 Producing a Sampled Call Stack Profile Analysis