Redundancy Suppression In Time-Aware Dynamic Binary Instrumentation
Abstract
Software tracing techniques are well-established and used by instrumentation tools to extract run-time information for program analysis and debugging. Dynamic binary instrumentation as one tool instruments program binaries to extract information. Unfortunately, instrumentation causes perturbation that is unacceptable for time-sensitive applications. Consequently we developed DIME*, a tool for dynamic binary instrumentation that considers timing constraints. DIME* uses Pin and a rate-based server approach to extract information only as long as user-specified constraints are maintained. Due to the large amount of redundancies in program traces, DIME* reduces the instrumentation overhead by one to three orders of magnitude compared to native Pin while extracting up to 99% of the information. We instrument VLC and PostgreSQL to demonstrate the usability of DIME*.
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@article{arxiv.1703.02873,
title = {Redundancy Suppression In Time-Aware Dynamic Binary Instrumentation},
author = {Pansy Arafa and Hany Kashif and Sebastian Fischmeister},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.02873},
year = {2017}
}
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11 pages