armstart -- starts a measurement within the current ARM session

The armstart command is used to start a measurement for a register ARM transaction within the current ARM session.

Command line options

Usage:

armstart <id> <tranID> [parent=id|hexCorr] [getcorr] [cxtName1=value] \
                       [ctxName2=value] [...]

id

specifies the identifier which will be used later to stop the measurement with the armstop command within the current ARM session.

tranID

specifies the transaction identifier was used to register the transaction name within the current ARM session.

parent

specifies the identifier of the parent measurement or a correlator string in hexadecimal encoding identifying the parent measurement

getcorr

if specified the correlator of the current measurement will be written to the standard output channel in hexadecimal encoding.

ctxName1

passes the value for the first context name as specified within the armtran call.

ctxName2

passes the value for the second context name as specified within the armtran call.

Example

armstart ld1 lddef Dir=/tmp Opt=-lrt

A complete example is shown in the armend example.

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