How to profile R4300 instructions with mupen64plus:

Pre-requisites:
- either 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (amd64) Linux system
- Lots of memory. It doesn't cause swapping in a machine with 2GB of ram, but it
probably would with 1GB
- OProfile (http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/)
- Mupen64plus source code

Procedure:
1. Install OProfile linux tool

2. Build r4300 profile tool with "gcc -o r4300prof r4300prof.c"

3. Build mupen64plus with "make DBGSYM=1 DBG_PROFILE=1"

4. Delete any pre-existing profiling files: "rm instructionaddrs.dat"

5. Clear any residual profiling data in oprofile: "sudo opcontrol --reset"

6. Make profiling run by typing in console:

sudo opcontrol --start ; ./mupen64plus --nogui --emumode 2 --audio
./plugins/dummyaudio.so <path-to-n64-rom> ; sudo opcontrol --stop

7. Exit emulator with Escape key after running for desired time

7. Move data file into tools folder: "mv instructionaddrs.dat tools/"

8. Dump instruction-level profiling data for mupen64plus with oprofile:

opreport -d -l ./mupen64plus > ./tools/prof-mupen64-detail.txt

9. Run tool to generate r4300 instruction profile report:

cd tools ; ./r4300prof instructionaddrs.dat prof-mupen64-detail.txt

Example profile output:

Loading instructionaddrs.dat...
283844 r4300 instruction locations read.
247911 non-empty MIPS instructions.
Loading prof-mupen64-detail.txt...
118181 lines in sample data file.
Found 117905 profile hits.

Instruction time (samples):

reserved: 00007515 NI: 00000000 J: 00000043 JAL: 00003345
BEQ: 00004498
BNE: 00003424 BLEZ: 00000222 BGTZ: 00000029 ADDI: 00000585
ADDIU: 00017439
SLTI: 00000765 SLTIU: 00000089 ANDI: 00003847 ORI: 00000381
XORI: 00000035
LUI: 00010389 BEQL: 00001873 BNEL: 00002617 BLEZL: 00000013
BGTZL: 00000010
DADDI: 00000000 DADDIU: 00000000 LDL: 00000000 LDR: 00000000
LB: 00002600
LH: 00006653 LW: 00024840 LWL: 00000001 LBU: 00003525
LHU: 00004954
LWU: 00000000 LWR: 00000003 SB: 00003007 SH: 00004133
SW: 00023221
 SWL: 00000000 SWR: 00000000 SDL: 00000000 SDR: 00000000
LWC1: 00012405
LDC1: 00001855 LD: 00000815 LL: 00000000 SWC1: 00007671
SDC1: 00001326
SD: 00001233 SC: 00000000 BLTZ: 00000383 BGEZ: 00000331
BLTZL: 00000161
BGEZL: 00000168 BLTZAL: 00000000 BGEZAL: 00000115 BLTZALL: 00000000
BGEZALL: 00000000
SLL: 00003376 SRL: 00000604 SRA: 00000686 SLLV: 00000015
SRLV: 00000039
SRAV: 00000000 JR: 00001358 JALR: 00000004 SYSCALL: 00000000
MFHI: 00000058
MTHI: 00000002 MFLO: 00000277 MTLO: 00000004 DSLLV: 00000000
DSRLV: 00000000
DSRAV: 00000000 MULT: 00000000 MULTU: 00000583 DIV: 00000941
DIVU: 00000000
DMULT: 00000000 DMULTU: 00000000 DDIV: 00000000 DDIVU: 00000000
ADD: 00000170
ADDU: 00001706 SUB: 00000037 SUBU: 00000833 AND: 00000909
OR: 00006360
XOR: 00000079 NOR: 00000004 SLT: 00000925 SLTU: 00001401
DADD: 00000000
DADDU: 00000000 DSUB: 00000000 DSUBU: 00000000 DSLL: 00000000
DSRL: 00000000
DSRA: 00000000 TEQ: 00000000 DSLL32: 00000000 DSRL32: 00000000
DSRA32: 00000000
BC1F: 00000286 BC1T: 00000032 BC1FL: 00000775 BC1TL: 00000077
TLBWI: 00000000
TLBP: 00000000 TLBR: 00000000 TLBWR: 00000000 ERET: 00000036
MFC0: 00000396
MTC0: 00000034 MFC1: 00000929 DMFC1: 00000000 CFC1: 00000141
MTC1: 00003081
DMTC1: 00000000 CTC1: 00000163 f.CVT: 00001113 f.CMP: 00002149
f.ADD: 00001387
f.SUB: 00000947 f.MUL: 00002696 f.DIV: 00000315 f.SQRT: 00000025
f.ABS: 00000000
f.MOV: 00000631 f.NEG: 00000323 f.ROUND: 00000000 f.TRUNC: 00000867
f.CEIL: 00000000
f.FLOOR: 00000000

Special code samples:

Regcache flushing: 12371
Jump wrappers: 15520
NOTCOMPILED: 33
block postfix & link samples: 619

Unaccounted samples: 19929

Total accounted instruction samples: 221836
Load: 35.2% (68040)
Store: 21.0% (40591)
Data move/convert: 03.5% (6829)
32-bit math: 16.0% (30861)
64-bit math: 05.7% (10948)
Float Math: 04.5% (8709)
Jump: 02.5% (4750)
Branch: 07.8% (15014)
Exceptions: 00.0% (36)
Reserved: 03.9% (7515)
Other: 00.0% (0)