<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> <title>NVIDIA CUDA Library: cuProfilerStart</title> <link href="customdoxygen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <link href="tabs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head><body> <!-- Generated by Doxygen 1.5.8 --> <div class="navigation" id="top"> <div class="tabs"> <ul> <li><a href="index.html"><span>Main Page</span></a></li> <li><a href="modules.html"><span>Modules</span></a></li> <li><a href="annotated.html"><span>Data Structures</span></a></li> <li><a href="pages.html"><span>Related Pages</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="contents"> <div class="navpath"><a class="el" href="group__CUDA__PROFILER.html">Profiler Control</a> </div> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <div class="navtab"> <table> <tr><td class="navtab"><a class="qindex" href="group__CUDA__PROFILER_gd5d346ef62db53032948f387650d1a18.html#gd5d346ef62db53032948f387650d1a18">cuProfilerInitialize</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="navtab"><a class="qindexHL" href="group__CUDA__PROFILER_g8a5314de2292c2efac83ac7fcfa9190e.html#g8a5314de2292c2efac83ac7fcfa9190e">cuProfilerStart</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="navtab"><a class="qindex" href="group__CUDA__PROFILER_g4d8edef6174fd90165e6ac838f320a5f.html#g4d8edef6174fd90165e6ac838f320a5f">cuProfilerStop</a></td></tr> </table> </div> </td> <td valign="top"> <a class="anchor" name="g8a5314de2292c2efac83ac7fcfa9190e"></a><!-- doxytag: member="cudaProfiler.h::cuProfilerStart" ref="g8a5314de2292c2efac83ac7fcfa9190e" args="(void)" --> <div class="memitem"> <div class="memproto"> <table class="memname"> <tr> <td class="memname"><a class="el" href="group__CUDA__TYPES_g09da14df1a751dcbfeccb9cf0073d64c.html#g09da14df1a751dcbfeccb9cf0073d64c">CUresult</a> cuProfilerStart </td> <td>(</td> <td class="paramtype">void </td> <td class="paramname"> </td> <td> ) </td> <td></td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="memdoc"> <p> This API starts the profiling for a context if it is not started already. Profiling must be initalized using <a class="el" href="group__CUDA__PROFILER_gd5d346ef62db53032948f387650d1a18.html#gd5d346ef62db53032948f387650d1a18" title="Initialize the profiling.">cuProfilerInitialize()</a> before calling this API.<p> cuProfilerStart and cuProfilerStop APIs are used to programmatically control the profiling granularity by allowing profiling to be done only on selective pieces of code.<p> <dl class="return" compact><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt><dd><a class="el" href="group__CUDA__TYPES_g0cdead942fd5028d157641eef6bdeeaa.html#gg0cdead942fd5028d157641eef6bdeeaaa0eed720f8a87cd1c5fd1c453bc7a03d">CUDA_SUCCESS</a>, <a class="el" href="group__CUDA__TYPES_g0cdead942fd5028d157641eef6bdeeaa.html#gg0cdead942fd5028d157641eef6bdeeaaa484e9af32c1e9893ff21f0e0191a12d">CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT</a>, <a class="el" href="group__CUDA__TYPES_g0cdead942fd5028d157641eef6bdeeaa.html#gg0cdead942fd5028d157641eef6bdeeaa624eb27178556d6a93433a610b36c0f9">CUDA_ERROR_PROFILER_DISABLED</a>, <a class="el" href="group__CUDA__TYPES_g0cdead942fd5028d157641eef6bdeeaa.html#gg0cdead942fd5028d157641eef6bdeeaab39b7696161bed9e1bc447ba699bf799">CUDA_ERROR_PROFILER_ALREADY_STARTED</a>, <a class="el" href="group__CUDA__TYPES_g0cdead942fd5028d157641eef6bdeeaa.html#gg0cdead942fd5028d157641eef6bdeeaab29d2209136a0e8b27c4d14aada28b97">CUDA_ERROR_PROFILER_NOT_INITIALIZED</a> </dd></dl> <dl class="note" compact><dt><b>Note:</b></dt><dd>Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.</dd></dl> <dl class="see" compact><dt><b>See also:</b></dt><dd><a class="el" href="group__CUDA__PROFILER_gd5d346ef62db53032948f387650d1a18.html#gd5d346ef62db53032948f387650d1a18" title="Initialize the profiling.">cuProfilerInitialize</a>, <a class="el" href="group__CUDA__PROFILER_g4d8edef6174fd90165e6ac838f320a5f.html#g4d8edef6174fd90165e6ac838f320a5f" title="Stop the profiling.">cuProfilerStop</a> </dd></dl> </div> </div><p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <hr size="1"><address style="text-align: right;"><small> Generated by Doxygen for NVIDIA CUDA Library <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/cuda"><img src="nvidia_logo.jpg" alt="NVIDIA" align="middle" border="0" height="80"></a></small></address> </body> </html>