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# User API
## Overview
This example demonstrates the rocprofiler-systems user API for instrumenting application code with named regions and custom annotations. It computes Fibonacci numbers across multiple threads while marking execution phases - initialization, thread creation, computation, and waiting - as named profiling regions. A custom callback adds `errno` annotations to each region push, showing how to attach application-specific metadata to trace events. Selective per-thread tracing is also demonstrated.
## Source Files
- `user-api.cpp` - Calls `rocprofsys_user_configure()` to register custom callbacks, uses `rocprofsys_user_push_region()` / `rocprofsys_user_pop_region()` to delimit named regions, and `rocprofsys_user_push_annotated_region()` to attach annotations. Also demonstrates `rocprofsys_user_stop_thread_trace()` / `rocprofsys_user_start_thread_trace()` for selective thread tracing.
## Prerequisites
- CMake 3.25+
- C++17 compiler
- rocprofiler-systems user library (`rocprofiler-systems::rocprofiler-systems-user-library`)
## Building
**Standalone build:**
```bash
cmake -B <build_dir> -S <project_root>/examples/user-api -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/rocm
cmake --build <build_dir>
```
**As part of the examples suite:**
```bash
cmake -B <build_dir> -S <project_root>/examples/ -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/rocm
cmake --build <build_dir> --target user-api
```
## Running
```bash
# Default: fib(10), min(16, ncpus) threads, 50000 iterations
./user-api
# Custom: fib(15), 8 threads, 10000 iterations
./user-api 15 8 10000
```
**Arguments:**
| Position | Description | Default |
| ---------- | ------------- | --------- |
| 1 | Fibonacci number to compute | 10 |
| 2 | Number of threads | min(16, hardware concurrency) |
| 3 | Number of iterations per thread | 50000 |
## Profiling with rocprofiler-systems
```bash
rocprof-sys-run -- ./user-api 10 4 1000
```
### Recommended Configuration
| Variable | Value | Purpose |
| ---------- | ------- | --------- |
| `ROCPROFSYS_TRACE` | `true` | Generate Perfetto trace with user regions |
| `ROCPROFSYS_PROFILE` | `true` | Generate call-stack profile |
| `ROCPROFSYS_USE_SAMPLING` | `ON` | Enable statistical sampling |
For binary rewrite instrumentation:
```bash
rocprof-sys-instrument -l --min-instructions=8 -E custom_push_region \
-o user-api.inst -- ./user-api
./user-api.inst 10 4 1000
```
| Option | Purpose |
| -------- | --------- |
| `-l` | Instrument at the loop level so the Fibonacci loop in `run()` is profiled |
| `--min-instructions=8` | Lower the default threshold (1024) so small functions like `run()` are included |
| `-E custom_push_region` | Exclude the user callback from instrumentation to avoid recursion and trace noise (the callback runs on every region push; instrumenting it would profile the profiler rather than the workload) |
### IMPORTANT NOTE
The `rocprof-sys-user` library will be removed in a future release. Please use `rocprofiler-sdk-roctx` instead!