PEBIL: Static Binary Instrumentation for x86/Linux
PEBIL is a lightweight binary instrumentation tool that can be used to capture information about the behavior of a running executable. Within PMaC it is used for static analysis, to count basic block and loop execution frequencies, and as a driver for the cache simulator that powers its performance prediction framework.
PEBIL is also gaining traction as a convenient way of performing comprehensive static analysis for a program. Just run one of the main line tools (e.g., BasicBlockCounter) on an executable and see the resulting file static analysis text file <program>.<toolext>.static.
PEBIL is free and open source. We love hearing about other research or projects that use PEBIL. If that describes you, or if you otherwise have questions or comments feel free to contact its author, Michael Laurenzano, at michaell [a@t] sdsc.edu.
Publications
PEBIL: Efficient Static Binary Instrumentation for Linux International Symposium on the Performance Analysis of Systems and Software. 2010.A Static Binary Instrumentation Threading Model for Fast Memory Trace Collection Workshop on Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems, 2012.
Downloads
Version 2.0.0 (11/15/2012)
New Features: lots of bug fixes, vastly improved overheads for instrumentation pass, added support for instrumenting multithreaded codes (OpenMP and pthreads) as well as multi-image runs.
