Callpath

by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov

This is the callpath library, a tool for representing callpath information consistently in distributed-memory parallel applications.

See the LICENSE file for license and distribution information.

Directory structure

callpath/
  build/     # contains sample cmake build line scripts
  cmake/     # Extra build files an find modules
  doc/       # target directory for doxygen
  scripts/   # scripts to be installed to $prefix/bin
  src/       # Callpath library source code
  tests/     # Test programs for callpath library

Building

To build, you need to use cmake. We recommend that you build out of source. That is, you should make a directory to build in first. e.g., to build with backtrace:

mkdir $SYS_TYPE && cd $SYS_TYPE
cmake \
    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install \
    -D CALLPATH_WALKER=backtrace  \
    -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \
    ..
make -j8
make -j8 install

To build with Dyninst you need to tell CMake where dyninst and its deps live, e.g.:

cmake \
    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install \
    -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \
    -D CALLPATH_WALKER=dyninst \
    -D Dyninst_DIR=/usr/global/tools/dyninst/stackwalker/$SYS_TYPE/current \
    -D DWARF_DIR=/usr/global/tools/dyninst/libdwarf/$SYS_TYPE/dwarf-20111030 \
    ..

To build on Blue Gene machines, you will need to use a toolchain file. We include some sample toolchain files in cmake/Toolchain:

cmake \
    -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../cmake/Toolchain/BlueGeneQ-gnu.cmake \
    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install \
    -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \
    -D CALLPATH_WALKER=dyninst \
    -D Dyninst_DIR=/usr/global/tools/dyninst/stackwalker/$SYS_TYPE/current \
    -D DWARF_DIR=/usr/global/tools/dyninst/libdwarf/$SYS_TYPE/dwarf-20111030 \
    ..

You can find some more sample CMake command lines in the scripts in the build directory.

Directory structure

callpath/
  build/     # contains sample cmake build line scripts
  cmake/     # Extra build files an find modules
  doc/       # target directory for doxygen
  scripts/   # scripts to be installed to $prefix/bin
  src/       # Callpath library source code
  tests/     # Test programs for callpath library