Valgrind Callgrind

Set Valgrind preferences either globally for all projects or separately for each project in the run settings of the project.

To set global preferences for Valgrind, select Preferences > Analyzer. Set Callgrind preferences in Callgrind Profiling Options.

In the KCachegrind executable field, enter the path to the KCachegrind executable to launch.

In Extra Callgrind arguments, specify additional arguments for launching the executable.

In the Result view: Minimum event cost and Visualization: Minimum event cost fields, limit the amount of results the profiler presents and visualizes to increase profiler performance.

To show additional information about events in tooltips, select Show additional information for events in tooltips.

To collect information about the system call times, select Collect system call time. To collect the number of global bus events of the event type Ge that are executed, select Collect global bus events.

Enabling Full Cache Simulation

By default, only instruction read accesses (Ir) are counted. To fully simulate the cache, select the Enable cache simulation check box. This enables the following additional event counters:

• Cache misses on instruction reads (I1mr/I2mr)
• Data read accesses (Dr) and related cache misses (D1mr/D2mr)
• Data write accesses (Dw) and related cache misses (D1mw/D2mw)

Enabling Branch Prediction Simulation

To enable the following additional event counters, select the Enable branch prediction simulation check box:

• Number of conditional branches executed and related predictor misses (Bc/Bcm)
• Executed indirect jumps and related misses of the jump address predictor (Bi/Bim)