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Proposed Changes

• Add docs/sphinx/manual/profiling_and_tracing.rst, a usage guide for the tracing backends:
  • Choosing a backend (Tracy, ITT API or APEX). Only one can be enabled.
  • Tracy: building HPX with Tracy, building the profiler, naming tasks (HPX_WITH_THREAD_DEBUG_INFO, hpx::annotated_function, with_annotation), capturing a trace, and what the zones, fibers and messages on the timeline mean. Also distributed runs and parcel ids, lowering the overhead, and adding your own frames and zones.
  • ITT API and VTune: building against ittapi or VTune, turning the events on at runtime (hpx.use_itt_notify), and what the backend records.
  • APEX: moved from optimizing_hpx_applications.rst, updated to use HPX_WITH_FETCH_APEX instead of the old git submodule text.
• optimizing_hpx_applications.rst now links to the new page. The optimizing_with_tracy label is kept, so old links still work.
• building_hpx.rst: the HPX_WITH_ITTNOTIFY entry now says what is needed to build and how to turn the events on. Also fixes a broken link to the hpx.tracing ini section.
• cmake_variables.rst.in: the Amplifier_ROOT entry now describes the ITT API instead of Intel Parallel Studio.
• launching_and_configuring_hpx_applications.rst: adds the hpx.use_itt_notify setting.
• libs/core/tracing/docs/index.rst: replaces two non-ASCII dashes.

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The Tracy details were checked against the Tracy v0.14.1 source and manual (the version HPX fetches by default) and against the HPX source. They have not been checked with a live capture yet.

Still to come, in separate PRs:

• Screenshots of the Tracy timeline.
• The suspension zone on fiber rows and the performance counter plots. Both are left out for now because each needs a fix in the Tracy backend first.

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• Documentation
  • Added a profiling and tracing guide covering Tracy, ITT/VTune, and APEX setup, runtime behavior, event capture, and application instrumentation.
  • Clarified ITT build requirements, runtime enablement, configuration options, and which events are emitted when tracing options are disabled.
  • Updated manual navigation and links to the profiling and tracing documentation.
  • Clarified how Amplifier_ROOT helps locate ITT headers and libraries.

The changes add a profiling and tracing manual for Tracy, ITT, and APEX. They also update existing build and configuration guidance and add links to the new manual.

Changes: Profiling and tracing documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Backend overview and Tracy documentation docs/sphinx/manual.rst, docs/sphinx/manual/profiling_and_tracing.rst, libs/core/tracing/docs/index.rst	The new manual introduces backend selection and documents Tracy setup, capture, recorded events, and instrumentation. The manual toctree now includes the page.
ITT setup and runtime documentation cmake/templates/cmake_variables.rst.in, docs/sphinx/manual/building_hpx.rst, docs/sphinx/manual/launching_and_configuring_hpx_applications.rst, docs/sphinx/manual/profiling_and_tracing.rst	The documentation covers ITT build requirements, runtime activation, configuration, sampling options, and recorded events.
APEX setup and documentation links docs/sphinx/manual/profiling_and_tracing.rst, docs/sphinx/manual/optimizing_hpx_applications.rst	The new manual documents APEX build options. The optimization page links to the APEX and Tracy guidance.

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Possibly related PRs

• TheHPXProject/hpx#7560: Adds a sampling-rate build option and runtime setting that this documentation describes.
• TheHPXProject/hpx#7813: Adds ITT parcel markers that the manual documents.

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Review comments at @docs/sphinx/manual/profiling_and_tracing.rst:
- Line 240: Qualify the fiber-row statement so it applies only to non-stackless
tasks, consistent with the preceding section’s description of
thread_stacksize::nostack. Update the sentence beginning “Each task also runs on
a fiber row” to say “Each non-stackless task...” or “Each task with a Tracy
zone...”.
- Line 122: Update the Tracy viewer build instructions around the git clone
command to state that its tag must match HPX_WITH_TRACY_TAG; clarify that
v0.14.1 applies when the setting is unset or uses its default, and that users
should substitute their configured tag or branch otherwise.
- Around line 216-230: Restore the scheduler-zone call-stack guidance near the
scheduler-zone description in “Reading the timeline”: clarify that captured call
stacks show the same scheduler-dispatch path for every task, so readers should
use the zone name and phase to identify the work.

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LGTM, thanks!