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8 years ago

Profiling OpenCL kernel code

Setting up profiling for standard applications is usually fairly trivial. For example, to generate C or C++ language code coverage analysis, it's a simple matter of adding "--coverage" to the gcc co...
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8 years ago

What information are you specifically looking for? If you are using the single work-item programming model, in which the kernel is basically a piece of sequential C code, you can always use the kernel code as a standard C function, and use gcc's code coverage analysis. For NDRange kernels, there is probably nothing official, but you can also convert those to standard sequential C code and perform the analysis.