文章基本信息

标题：ePAPI: Performance Application Programming Interface for Embedded Platforms
本地全文：下载
作者：Jeremy Giesen ; Enrico Mezzetti ; Jaume Abella 等
期刊名称：OASIcs : OpenAccess Series in Informatics
电子版ISSN：2190-6807
出版年度：2019
卷号：72
页码：1-13
DOI：10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2019.3
出版社：Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik
摘要：Performance Monitoring Counters (PMCs) have been traditionally used in the mainstream computing domain to perform debugging and optimization of software performance. PMCs are increasingly considered in embedded time-critical domains to collect in-depth information, e.g. cache misses and memory accesses, of software execution time on complex multicore platforms. In main-stream platforms, standardized specifications and applications like the Performance Application Programming Interface (PAPI) and perf have been proposed to deal with variable PMC support across platforms, by providing a shared interface for configuring and collecting traceable events. However, no equivalent solution exists for embedded critical processors for which the user is required to deal with low-level, platform-specific, and error-prone manipulation of PMC registers. In this paper, we address the need for a standardized PMC interface in the embedded domain, especially in view to support timing characterization of embedded platforms. We assess the compatibility of the PAPI interface with the PMC support available on the AURIX TC297, a reference automotive platform, and we implement and validate ePAPI, the first functionally-equivalent and low-overhead implementation of PAPI for the considered embedded platform.
关键词：Monitoring counters; embedded systems