From 56e84a63cad9f4531ac110e6553f71ea4553d1b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 20:31:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] LibJS: Emit a profile signpost when starting a garbage
 collection

---
 Userland/Libraries/LibJS/Heap/Heap.cpp | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibJS/Heap/Heap.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibJS/Heap/Heap.cpp
index a233864ef7..aee2ea837f 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibJS/Heap/Heap.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibJS/Heap/Heap.cpp
@@ -19,11 +19,24 @@
 #include <LibJS/Runtime/WeakContainer.h>
 #include <setjmp.h>
 
+#ifdef __serenity__
+#    include <serenity.h>
+#endif
+
 namespace JS {
 
+#ifdef __serenity__
+static constexpr FlatPtr gc_perf_string_id = 0x13378086;
+#endif
+
 Heap::Heap(VM& vm)
     : m_vm(vm)
 {
+#ifdef __serenity__
+    auto gc_signpost_string = "Garbage collection"sv;
+    perf_register_string(gc_perf_string_id, gc_signpost_string.characters_without_null_termination(), gc_signpost_string.length());
+#endif
+
     if constexpr (HeapBlock::min_possible_cell_size <= 16) {
         m_allocators.append(make<CellAllocator>(16));
     }
@@ -72,6 +85,11 @@ void Heap::collect_garbage(CollectionType collection_type, bool print_report)
     VERIFY(!m_collecting_garbage);
     TemporaryChange change(m_collecting_garbage, true);
 
+#ifdef __serenity__
+    static size_t global_gc_counter = 0;
+    perf_event(PERF_EVENT_SIGNPOST, gc_perf_string_id, global_gc_counter++);
+#endif
+
     Core::ElapsedTimer collection_measurement_timer;
     collection_measurement_timer.start();
     if (collection_type == CollectionType::CollectGarbage) {