Hi, I'm having a problem with constantly increasing memory usage when running a non-trivial Pin tool (Sniper, our multi-core architectural simulator) on a...
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Milian Wolff
milianwolff
May 9, 2012 5:50 pm
Hey there! Just today I got to know PIN and it is looking very promising indeed. To get my feet wet, I tried to run the malloctrace2 example probe tool, yet I...
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Milian Wolff
milianwolff
May 9, 2012 5:55 pm
Hey there, this might be a no-brainer but I couldn't find a clear answer: Is pin free for commercial use? In the license I don't really find anything that says...
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Cohn, Robert S
rscohn2000
May 9, 2012 6:59 pm
Pin is okay for commercial use. I updated the wiki. The main restriction in the license is that you cannot redistribute the Pin kit or a pintool that is linked...
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Devor, Tevi
tevi.devor
May 10, 2012 1:41 pm
Did you read about the Pin Probe runtime in the manual? ... From: pinheads@yahoogroups.com [mailto:pinheads@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Milian Wolff Sent:...
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tevi.devor
May 10, 2012 1:44 pm
Try adding -slow_asserts to the Pin command line, this checks for memory leaks in Pin, among other things. Note things are expected to run quite a bit slower...
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Wim Heirman
wim_heirman
May 10, 2012 3:25 pm
Hi Tevi, I added -slow_asserts, if anything, it looks like memory consumption now goes up even faster. No asserts got triggered in the time until I ran out of...
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moonunittt
May 11, 2012 1:26 pm
Tevi, I've been looking into this issue a bit and think that I might have an example that when run, causes Pin to continue to request additional memory from...
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Milian Wolff
milianwolff
May 12, 2012 4:11 pm
... Hey there, yes - to the best of my knowledge I did read it. I did download the runtime libs and untarred them into the correct places as far as I can see....
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nafta452
May 13, 2012 7:18 am
Hi, You are compiling with gcc 4.6.1. This compiler requires libstdc++ 11 which requires libc 2.4. Unfortunately, probe mode can be run with libc versions up...
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nafta452
May 14, 2012 6:36 am
Hi, 1. Please post the exact command line that you're using to invoke Pin. 2. Have you modified the pin script? 3. Have you changed the kit's directory...
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tevi.devor
May 14, 2012 12:35 pm
Hi Thanks for this report. I have reproduced the unlimited memory growth (on Windows). We will look into this....
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ttang1986
May 14, 2012 1:39 pm
hi all, I instrument some function before and after each instruction. But an instruction's IPOINT_AFTER function is not called. my reduced code: if (...
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Cownie, James H
jim.cownie
May 14, 2012 1:49 pm
You can't rely on all instructions that start to execute appearing to finish :-). A signal can come in, in which case from Pin's point of view control flow...
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tevi.devor
May 14, 2012 2:18 pm
Which Pin kit did you download and use for this? Did you find that the IPOINT_AFTER is never called for any instruction, or is there some particular...
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Gene Wagenbreth
gwagenbreth
May 15, 2012 12:58 am
can pin count floating point instructions ? can pin count integer instructions ? I already have it counting memory reads and writes. Thank you Gene W...
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ttang1986
May 15, 2012 1:32 am
The version of my downloaded pin is [49306]--Apr 08, 2012 I analyze a multi-thread programs with pin on a multicore process. I want to keep atomic between my...
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Gabriel Marin
mgabi99
May 15, 2012 2:09 am
Do you use a similar code to add instrumentation for writes? if (INS_IsMemoryWrite(ins) && INS_HasFallThrough(ins)) { ... } The instruction quoted by you...
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ttang1986
May 15, 2012 3:27 am
Yes, a similar code is used for write, as you say. I modified my code, only for single read or single write. It executes successful. But how can I provide...
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Gabriel Marin
mgabi99
May 15, 2012 3:55 am
I do not know, depends on what type of analysis you want to do, and what level of atomicity you desire. If atomicity at instruction level is sufficient, even...
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Hanfeng Qin
hanfeng_hust
May 15, 2012 1:29 pm
Hi all, I want to calculate the instruction counts of critical sections in multithreaded programs written in pthread style. I instrument the whole image and...
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Dan Upton
draqza.rm
May 15, 2012 3:35 pm
I don't think the way you're approaching it in your sample code is going to work. If you think about the flow of a single thread in this case, after ...
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hanfeng_hust
May 16, 2012 3:04 am
Hi Dan, Thanks for your tips. The approach work for most cases except for nest-lock scenario. Considering the following code segments, pthread_mutex_lock...
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Dan Upton
draqza.rm
May 16, 2012 3:20 am
Your analysis function can access the parameters of the function you're instrumenting -- see IARG_FUNCARG_* and related examples. So rather than just checking...
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Cownie, James H
jim.cownie
May 16, 2012 9:09 am
You can certainly write Pin tools to count floating point or integer instructions. Take a look at the "*mix*" tools that are in the Pin examples. For...
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Milian Wolff
milianwolff
May 16, 2012 9:13 am
Hey all, I played around with PinTool and find it very nice to use. The big downside I found is the lacking ability to get a backtrace... The Maid example tool...
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Milian Wolff
milianwolff
May 16, 2012 9:43 am
... note: looking a bit more at the code, I notice that I can greatly improve it's performance by getting rid of _enter_opaque_lib_entry and related code - it ...
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Xin Tong
xeroxtime1
May 18, 2012 3:31 am
does PIN has a state-of-the-art indirect branch predictor (i.e. TAGE predictor). I do not see any branch predictor under pin/source/ Thanks Xin...
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Cypher Z
albertzh13
May 18, 2012 3:40 am
You can hook up TAGE code with pin. It's not as laborious as you may see it. Remember, the TAGE code published by CBP-3 is for single threaded workload, you...
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wangfuwei_bupt
May 19, 2012 5:41 am
Hello, I'm a new learner of Pin. I'm trying to use Pin to build a taint-data tracing frame, which requires recording all instructions executed. It's not...
