Command line reports matching gui

kendall_f_ · ‎06-26-2015

Hi Intel experts,

I'm currently running a custom advanced hotspots analysis using the amplxe-cl -collect command. The analysis is created by copying Advanced Hotspots analysis and scrolling to the bottom to check the box "Analyze the energy taken by processor cores..."

I run the command:

amplxe-cl -collect advanced-hotspots-0 -r report -- ./run.sh

In the GUI there are two reports I'm interested in: Hotspots viewpoint (chosen from dropdown) Top-down (chosen from the tab), and Hardware Event Count viewpoint (dropdown) Top-down (tab). I've tried all of the report types listed in the documentation from the command line but none of them give me the same information as I get in the GUI. With call stack mode I can get the fields (see command below), but this is not the top-down table in the GUI. Gprof-cc also gets me timing information that is close to the effective time in the hotspots top-down, but it's not exactly the same.

amplxe-cl -report hw-events -r report -format csv -csv-delimiter comma -call-stack-mode all -report-output ./report.csv

For right now I've been using the GUI, expanding all rows, and exporting to CSV, but it is very time consuming (the tool keeps crashing and takes ~10 minutes to load each report). Is there a way to get these two reports via command line?

Thanks!

Peter_W_Intel · ‎06-28-2015

1. If you copied/modified advanced-hotspots analysis to run analysis on GUI, you can use both "amplxe-cl -report hotspots..." & "amplxe-cl -report hw-events ..." to display your result in command line.

2. If I use "amplxe-cl -collect advanced-hotspots-0 -d 10 ..." - I can get same results of 1)

3. Sometime we can use command line to run customized event-based sampling collection, please refer to this article. Like -

amplxe-cl -collect-with runsa -knob event-config=CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.CORE,CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.REF,INST_RETIRED.ANY -- C:\test\sample.exe

I still can see hot functions in command line.

What your expectation in result from command line? Can you please attach your result? Screen-shot on GUI to be expected in command line?

Do you use latest VTune Amplifer XE 2015 U4?

kendall_f_ · ‎06-29-2015

These are the commands I used on the command line:

amplxe-cl -report hw-events -r . -format csv -csv-delimiter comma -call-stack-mode all -report-output=hwevents.csv

amplxe-cl -report hotspots -r . -format csv -csv-delimiter comma -call-stack-mode all -report-output=hotspots.csv

So the hw-events report from the command line corresponds to the data in the PMU Events tab (Hardware Event Counts viewpoint) in the GUI, and the hotspots report from the command line corresponds to the data in Bottom-up tab (Hotspots viewpoint) in the GUI. I need the Top-down Tree tab report for both viewpoints.

The results are attached in the Excel spreadsheet with the following sheet names (I've deleted the noise - the remaining are the functions I'm interested in):

hwevents = hw-events command line report

GUI hwevents topdown = Hardware Event Counts viewpoint, Top-down Tree tab

hotspots = hotspots command line

GUI hotspots topdown= Hotspots viewpoint, Top-down Tree tab

Peter_W_Intel · ‎06-29-2015

I guess that you need call stack info, see my example -

C:\temp>amplxe-cl -c advanced-hotspots -knob collection-detail=stack-sampling -d 10 -- cache_test.exe

C:\temp>amplxe-cl -R hotspots
amplxe: Using result path `C:\temp\r005ah'
amplxe: Executing actions 50 % Generating a report F
unction Module CPU Time Spin Time Overhead Time
--------------- -------------- -------- --------- -------------
cache_test303_1 cache_test.exe 9.485s 0s 0s
func@0x78ed0b66 ntdll.dll 0.001s 0s 0s
amplxe: Executing actions 100 % done

C:\temp>amplxe-cl -R hw-events
amplxe: Using result path `C:\temp\r005ah'
amplxe: Executing actions 50 % Generating a report F
unction Module Hardware Event Count:INST_RETIRED.ANY
Hardware Event Count:CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD Hardware Event Count:CPU_CLK_UNH
ALTED.REF_TSC
-------------------------- -------------- ------------------------------------
- -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------
--------------
cache_test303_1 cache_test.exe 31,402,550,30
5 26,624,294,247
23,658,127,275
func@0x78ed0b66 ntdll.dll 997,24
9 1,601,196
1,905,250

C:\temp>amplxe-cl -R top-down
amplxe: Using result path `C:\temp\r005ah'
amplxe: Executing actions 50 % Generating a report
unction Stack Module CPU Time:Total CPU Time:Self
-------------------------- -------------- -------------- -------------
Total [Unknown] 100.000% 0s
RtlUserThreadStart ntdll.dll 99.984% 0s
BaseThreadInitThunk kernel32.dll 99.984% 0s
_tmainCRTStartup cache_test.exe 99.984% 0s
main cache_test.exe 99.984% 0s
cache_test303_1 cache_test.exe 99.984% 9.484s
LdrInitializeThunk ntdll.dll 0.008% 0s
func@0x78eea9ed ntdll.dll 0.008% 0s

C:\temp>amplxe-cl -R callstacks
amplxe: Using result path `C:\temp\r005ah'
amplxe: Executing actions 50 % Generating a report F
unction Function Stack Module CPU Time
--------------- ------------------------ -------------- --------
cache_test303_1 cache_test.exe 9.485s
main cache_test.exe 9.484s
_tmainCRTStartup cache_test.exe 0s
BaseThreadInitThunk kernel32.dll 0s
RtlUserThreadStart ntdll.dll 0s

[Unknown stack frame(s)] 0.001s

func@0x78ed0b66 ntdll.dll 0.001s
func@0x78e75e2b ntdll.dll 0.001s

What kind of report type do you like it?