Paper Info
Title
Efficient function call tracing with link-time binary rewriting for CE devices.
Abstract
As the scale and complexity of software components in consumer electronics increase, the importance of performance optimization is rapidly growing. Consequently, the demand for performance optimization tools tailored for the consumer electronics environment is stronger than ever. A function call tracer is a vital tool for investigating relationships between functions, invocation counts of a function, and elapsed time in a function. Despite its importance in performance optimization, the limited capability of embedded hardware prohibits use of existing dynamic binary instrumentation tools. Moreover, the use of closed proprietary components excludes source-level analysis tools out of viable options. In this paper, LITIFUT, a function call tracer designed for consumer electronics, is proposed. This tool rewrites an executable file or a library file to inject profiling code during the linking stage. This approach achieves as little performance overhead as source-level instrumentation and as minor developer-intervention as binary-level instrumentation. The prototype implementation supports the two most popular embedded processor architectures. The evaluation with a real-world embedded software application showed that LITIFUT successfully profiles program activities with insignificant overhead.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TCE.2013.6689704
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Real-time systems,Estimation,Object tracking,Convergence,Histograms,Heuristic algorithms
Embedded software,Subroutine,Profiling (computer programming),Computer science,Electronics,Link time,Component-based software engineering,Tracing,Embedded system,Executable
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
59
4
0098-3063
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bon-Keun Seo1181.19
Jinkyu Jeong230021.96
Joonwon Lee3143890.35
Euiseong Seo435424.20