// Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. #ifndef BASE_PROFILER_STACK_SAMPLING_PROFILER_H_ #define BASE_PROFILER_STACK_SAMPLING_PROFILER_H_ #include #include #include #include #include "base/atomicops.h" #include "base/base_export.h" #include "base/callback.h" #include "base/files/file_path.h" #include "base/macros.h" #include "base/strings/string16.h" #include "base/synchronization/waitable_event.h" #include "base/threading/platform_thread.h" #include "base/time/time.h" namespace base { class NativeStackSampler; class NativeStackSamplerTestDelegate; // StackSamplingProfiler periodically stops a thread to sample its stack, for // the purpose of collecting information about which code paths are // executing. This information is used in aggregate by UMA to identify hot // and/or janky code paths. // // Sample StackSamplingProfiler usage: // // // Create and customize params as desired. // base::StackStackSamplingProfiler::SamplingParams params; // // Any thread's ID may be passed as the target. // base::StackSamplingProfiler profiler(base::PlatformThread::CurrentId()), // params); // // // Or, to process the profiles within Chrome rather than via UMA, use a // // custom completed callback: // base::StackStackSamplingProfiler::CompletedCallback // thread_safe_callback = ...; // base::StackSamplingProfiler profiler(base::PlatformThread::CurrentId()), // params, thread_safe_callback); // // profiler.Start(); // // ... work being done on the target thread here ... // profiler.Stop(); // optional, stops collection before complete per params // // The default SamplingParams causes stacks to be recorded in a single burst at // a 10Hz interval for a total of 30 seconds. All of these parameters may be // altered as desired. // // When all call stack profiles are complete, or the profiler is stopped, the // completed callback is called from a thread created by the profiler with the // collected profiles. // // The results of the profiling are passed to the completed callback and consist // of a vector of CallStackProfiles. Each CallStackProfile corresponds to a // burst as specified in SamplingParams and contains a set of Samples and // Modules. One Sample corresponds to a single recorded stack, and the Modules // record those modules associated with the recorded stack frames. class BASE_EXPORT StackSamplingProfiler { public: // Module represents the module (DLL or exe) corresponding to a stack frame. struct BASE_EXPORT Module { Module(); Module(uintptr_t base_address, const std::string& id, const FilePath& filename); ~Module(); // Points to the base address of the module. uintptr_t base_address; // An opaque binary string that uniquely identifies a particular program // version with high probability. This is parsed from headers of the loaded // module. // For binaries generated by GNU tools: // Contents of the .note.gnu.build-id field. // On Windows: // GUID + AGE in the debug image headers of a module. std::string id; // The filename of the module. FilePath filename; }; // Frame represents an individual sampled stack frame with module information. struct BASE_EXPORT Frame { // Identifies an unknown module. static const size_t kUnknownModuleIndex = static_cast(-1); Frame(uintptr_t instruction_pointer, size_t module_index); ~Frame(); // Default constructor to satisfy IPC macros. Do not use explicitly. Frame(); // The sampled instruction pointer within the function. uintptr_t instruction_pointer; // Index of the module in CallStackProfile::modules. We don't represent // module state directly here to save space. size_t module_index; }; // Sample represents a set of stack frames with some extra information. struct BASE_EXPORT Sample { Sample(); Sample(const Sample& sample); ~Sample(); // These constructors are used only during testing. Sample(const Frame& frame); Sample(const std::vector& frames); // The entire stack frame when the sample is taken. std::vector frames; // A bit-field indicating which process milestones have passed. This can be // used to tell where in the process lifetime the samples are taken. Just // as a "lifetime" can only move forward, these bits mark the milestones of // the processes life as they occur. Bits can be set but never reset. The // actual definition of the individual bits is left to the user of this // module. uint32_t process_milestones = 0; }; // CallStackProfile represents a set of samples. struct BASE_EXPORT CallStackProfile { CallStackProfile(); CallStackProfile(CallStackProfile&& other); ~CallStackProfile(); CallStackProfile& operator=(CallStackProfile&& other); CallStackProfile CopyForTesting() const; std::vector modules; std::vector samples; // Duration of this profile. TimeDelta profile_duration; // Time between samples. TimeDelta sampling_period; private: // Copying is possible but expensive so disallow it except for internal use // (i.e. CopyForTesting); use std::move instead. CallStackProfile(const CallStackProfile& other); DISALLOW_ASSIGN(CallStackProfile); }; using CallStackProfiles = std::vector; // Represents parameters that configure the sampling. struct BASE_EXPORT SamplingParams { // Time to delay before first samples are taken. TimeDelta initial_delay = TimeDelta::FromMilliseconds(0); // Number of sampling bursts to perform. int bursts = 1; // Interval between sampling bursts. This is the desired duration from the // start of one burst to the start of the next burst. TimeDelta burst_interval = TimeDelta::FromSeconds(10); // Number of samples to record per burst. int samples_per_burst = 300; // Interval between samples during a sampling burst. This is the desired // duration from the start of one sample to the start of the next sample. TimeDelta sampling_interval = TimeDelta::FromMilliseconds(100); }; // Testing support. These methods are static beause they interact with the // sampling thread, a singleton used by all StackSamplingProfiler objects. // These methods can only be called by the same thread that started the // sampling. class BASE_EXPORT TestAPI { public: // Resets the internal state to that of a fresh start. This is necessary // so that tests don't inherit state from previous tests. static void Reset(); // Resets internal annotations (like process phase) to initial values. static void ResetAnnotations(); // Returns whether the sampling thread is currently running or not. static bool IsSamplingThreadRunning(); // Disables inherent idle-shutdown behavior. static void DisableIdleShutdown(); // Initiates an idle shutdown task, as though the idle timer had expired, // causing the thread to exit. There is no "idle" check so this must be // called only when all sampling tasks have completed. This blocks until // the task has been executed, though the actual stopping of the thread // still happens asynchronously. Watch IsSamplingThreadRunning() to know // when the thread has exited. If |simulate_intervening_start| is true then // this method will make it appear to the shutdown task that a new profiler // was started between when the idle-shutdown was initiated and when it // runs. static void PerformSamplingThreadIdleShutdown( bool simulate_intervening_start); }; // The callback type used to collect completed profiles. The passed |profiles| // are move-only. Other threads, including the UI thread, may block on // callback completion so this should run as quickly as possible. // // IMPORTANT NOTE: The callback is invoked on a thread the profiler // constructs, rather than on the thread used to construct the profiler and // set the callback, and thus the callback must be callable on any thread. For // threads with message loops that create StackSamplingProfilers, posting a // task to the message loop with the moved (i.e. std::move) profiles is the // thread-safe callback implementation. using CompletedCallback = Callback; // Creates a profiler for the CURRENT thread that sends completed profiles // to |callback|. An optional |test_delegate| can be supplied by tests. // The caller must ensure that this object gets destroyed before the current // thread exits. StackSamplingProfiler( const SamplingParams& params, const CompletedCallback& callback, NativeStackSamplerTestDelegate* test_delegate = nullptr); // Creates a profiler for ANOTHER thread that sends completed profiles to // |callback|. An optional |test_delegate| can be supplied by tests. // // IMPORTANT: The caller must ensure that the thread being sampled does not // exit before this object gets destructed or Bad Things(tm) may occur. StackSamplingProfiler( PlatformThreadId thread_id, const SamplingParams& params, const CompletedCallback& callback, NativeStackSamplerTestDelegate* test_delegate = nullptr); // Stops any profiling currently taking place before destroying the profiler. // This will block until the callback has been run if profiling has started // but not already finished. ~StackSamplingProfiler(); // Initializes the profiler and starts sampling. Might block on a // WaitableEvent if this StackSamplingProfiler was previously started and // recently stopped, while the previous profiling phase winds down. void Start(); // Stops the profiler and any ongoing sampling. This method will return // immediately with the callback being run asynchronously. At most one // more stack sample will be taken after this method returns. Calling this // function is optional; if not invoked profiling terminates when all the // profiling bursts specified in the SamplingParams are completed or the // profiler object is destroyed, whichever occurs first. void Stop(); // Set the current system state that is recorded with each captured stack // frame. This is thread-safe so can be called from anywhere. The parameter // value should be from an enumeration of the appropriate type with values // ranging from 0 to 31, inclusive. This sets bits within Sample field of // |process_milestones|. The actual meanings of these bits are defined // (globally) by the caller(s). static void SetProcessMilestone(int milestone); private: friend class TestAPI; // SamplingThread is a separate thread used to suspend and sample stacks from // the target thread. class SamplingThread; // Adds annotations to a Sample. static void RecordAnnotations(Sample* sample); // This global variables holds the current system state and is recorded with // every captured sample, done on a separate thread which is why updates to // this must be atomic. A PostTask to move the the updates to that thread // would skew the timing and a lock could result in deadlock if the thread // making a change was also being profiled and got stopped. static subtle::Atomic32 process_milestones_; // The thread whose stack will be sampled. PlatformThreadId thread_id_; const SamplingParams params_; const CompletedCallback completed_callback_; // This starts "signaled", is reset when sampling begins, and is signaled // when that sampling is complete and the callback done. WaitableEvent profiling_inactive_; // Object that does the native sampling. This is created during construction // and later passed to the sampling thread when profiling is started. std::unique_ptr native_sampler_; // An ID uniquely identifying this profiler to the sampling thread. This // will be an internal "null" value when no collection has been started. int profiler_id_; // Stored until it can be passed to the NativeStackSampler created in Start(). NativeStackSamplerTestDelegate* const test_delegate_; DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(StackSamplingProfiler); }; // These operators permit types to be compared and used in a map of Samples, as // done in tests and by the metrics provider code. BASE_EXPORT bool operator==(const StackSamplingProfiler::Module& a, const StackSamplingProfiler::Module& b); BASE_EXPORT bool operator==(const StackSamplingProfiler::Sample& a, const StackSamplingProfiler::Sample& b); BASE_EXPORT bool operator!=(const StackSamplingProfiler::Sample& a, const StackSamplingProfiler::Sample& b); BASE_EXPORT bool operator<(const StackSamplingProfiler::Sample& a, const StackSamplingProfiler::Sample& b); BASE_EXPORT bool operator==(const StackSamplingProfiler::Frame& a, const StackSamplingProfiler::Frame& b); BASE_EXPORT bool operator<(const StackSamplingProfiler::Frame& a, const StackSamplingProfiler::Frame& b); } // namespace base #endif // BASE_PROFILER_STACK_SAMPLING_PROFILER_H_