// 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_TRACE_EVENT_TRACING_AGENT_H_ #define BASE_TRACE_EVENT_TRACING_AGENT_H_ #include "base/base_export.h" #include "base/callback.h" #include "base/memory/ref_counted_memory.h" #include "base/values.h" namespace base { class TimeTicks; namespace trace_event { class TraceConfig; // A tracing agent is an entity that records its own sort of trace. Each // tracing method that produces its own trace log should implement this // interface. All tracing agents must only be controlled by TracingController. // Some existing examples include TracingControllerImpl for Chrome trace events, // DebugDaemonClient for CrOs system trace, EtwTracingAgent for Windows system // trace and PowerTracingAgent for BattOr power trace. class BASE_EXPORT TracingAgent { public: using StartAgentTracingCallback = base::Callback; // Passing a null or empty events_str_ptr indicates that no trace data is // available for the specified agent. using StopAgentTracingCallback = base::Callback& events_str_ptr)>; using RecordClockSyncMarkerCallback = base::Callback; virtual ~TracingAgent(); // Gets the name of the tracing agent. Each tracing agent's name should be // unique. virtual std::string GetTracingAgentName() = 0; // Gets the trace event label of this tracing agent. The label will be used to // label this agent's trace when all traces from different tracing agents are // combined. Multiple tracing agents could have the same label. The tracing // agents using the same label should not be able to run at the same time. For // example, ETW on Windows and CrOS system tracing both use // "systemTraceEvents" as the label. Those two agents never run at the same // time because they are for different platforms. virtual std::string GetTraceEventLabel() = 0; // Starts tracing on the tracing agent with the trace configuration. virtual void StartAgentTracing(const TraceConfig& trace_config, const StartAgentTracingCallback& callback) = 0; // Stops tracing on the tracing agent. The trace data will be passed back to // the TracingController via the callback. virtual void StopAgentTracing(const StopAgentTracingCallback& callback) = 0; // Checks if the tracing agent supports explicit clock synchronization. virtual bool SupportsExplicitClockSync(); // Records a clock sync marker issued by another tracing agent. This is only // used if the tracing agent supports explicit clock synchronization. // // Two things need to be done: // 1. The issuer asks the receiver to record the clock sync marker. // 2. The issuer records how long the receiver takes to do the recording. // // In Chrome, the receiver thread also runs in Chrome and it will talk to the // real receiver entity, e.g., power monitor or Android device system, via // different communication methods, e.g., through USB or file reading/writing. // The 2nd task measures that communication latency. // // Having a reliable timing measurement for the 2nd task requires synchronous // function call without any cross-thread or cross-process activity. However, // tracing agents in Chrome run in their own threads. Therefore, the issuer // needs to dedicate the 2nd task to the receiver to take time measurements // in the receiver thread, and the receiver thread needs to pass them back to // the issuer in the callback. // // The assumption is that the receiver thread knows the issuer's clock, which // is true in Chrome because all agent threads' clocks are Chrome clock. virtual void RecordClockSyncMarker( const std::string& sync_id, const RecordClockSyncMarkerCallback& callback); }; } // namespace trace_event } // namespace base #endif // BASE_TRACE_EVENT_TRACING_AGENT_H_