ARM DS-5 Using ARM Streamline

Chapter 1 Conventions and Feedback

Chapter 2 Setting Up Your Target

2.1 Setting up an ARM Linux target ............................................................................... 2-2
2.2 Setting up an Android target .................................................................................... 2-6
2.3 Recommended compiler options ........................................................................... 2-10
2.4 Mali setup for Streamline ....................................................................................... 2-11

Chapter 3 Using the Streamline Data View

3.1 The Streamline Data view ........................................................................................ 3-2

Chapter 4 Setting Capture Options

4.1 Opening the Capture Options dialog box ................................................................. 4-2
4.2 Capture options ....................................................................................................... 4-3

Chapter 5 Configuring Counters

5.1 Opening the Counter Configuration dialog box ........................................................ 5-2
5.2 Using the Counters Configuration dialog box .......................................................... 5-4

Chapter 6 The Timeline View

6.1 About the Timeline view ........................................................................................... 6-2
6.2 Timeline view charts .............................................................................................. 6-10
6.3 Customizing charts ................................................................................................ 6-13
6.4 Filtering data and other Timeline view controls ..................................................... 6-19
6.5 Timeline view toolbar options, contextual menu options, and keyboard shortcuts 6-22
6.6 Visual Annotation in the Timeline view .................................................................. 6-25

Chapter 7 The Table Views: Call Paths, Functions, and Stack

7.1 Table views toolbar options, contextual menu options and keyboard shortcuts ...... 7-2
7.2 Sorting data in the table reports ............................................................................... 7-5
7.3 Call Paths view column headers .............................................................................. 7-6
7.4 Functions view column headers .............................................................................. 7-7
7.5 Stack view column headers and the Maximum Stack Depth by Thread chart ......... 7-8

Chapter 8 The Code View

8.1 Code view basics ..................................................................................................... 8-2
8.2 Code view toolbar options and keyboard shortcuts ................................................. 8-5

Chapter 9 The Call Graph View

9.1 Call Graph view basics ............................................................................................ 9-2
9.2 Contextual menu options ......................................................................................... 9-5
9.3 Call Graph toolbar and keyboard shortcuts ............................................................. 9-6

Chapter 10 Annotate and the Log View

10.1 Customize reports using Annotate ......................................................................... 10-2
10.2 Adding bookmarks using Annotate ........................................................................ 10-5
10.3 Adding images to reports using Visual Annotate ................................................... 10-7

10.4 The Log view ......................................................................................................... 10-9

Chapter 11 Advanced Customizations

11.1 Capturing data on your target ................................................................................ 11-2
11.2 Creating custom performance counters ................................................................. 11-4
11.3 Using Stored Streamline Capture Data to create new Streamline Analysis Reports ......
11-9
11.4 Profiling the Linux kernel ..................................................................................... 11-10

Chapter 12 Using the Energy Probe

12.1 Energy Probe overview .......................................................................................... 12-2
12.2 Energy Probe requirements ................................................................................... 12-3
12.3 Energy Probe setup ............................................................................................... 12-5
12.4 Energy Probe operation ......................................................................................... 12-8
12.5 Support for National Instruments™ Multifunction Data Acquisition devices (NI DAQ) ...12-10

Chapter 13 Using Streamline on the Command Line

13.1 Opening a Streamline-enabled command prompt or shell .................................... 13-2
13.2 The streamline command ...................................................................................... 13-3

Chapter 14 Troubleshooting

14.1 Target connection issues ....................................................................................... 14-2
14.2 Report issues ......................................................................................................... 14-3