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Kernel+Profiler: Make profiling per-process and without core dumps

This patch merges the profiling functionality in the kernel with the
performance events mechanism. A profiler sample is now just another
perf event, rather than a dedicated thing.

Since perf events were already per-process, this now makes profiling
per-process as well.

Processes with perf events would already write out a perfcore.PID file
to the current directory on death, but since we may want to profile
a process and then let it continue running, recorded perf events can
now be accessed at any time via /proc/PID/perf_events.

This patch also adds information about process memory regions to the
perfcore JSON format. This removes the need to supply a core dump to
the Profiler app for symbolication, and so the "profiler coredump"
mechanism is removed entirely.

There's still a hard limit of 4MB worth of perf events per process,
so this is by no means a perfect final design, but it's a nice step
forward for both simplicity and stability.

Fixes #4848
Fixes #4849
This commit is contained in:
Andreas Kling 2021-01-11 09:52:18 +01:00
parent f259d96871
commit 5dafb72370
20 changed files with 195 additions and 310 deletions

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@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ enum {
_SC_OPEN_MAX
};
#define PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE 0
#define PERF_EVENT_MALLOC 1
#define PERF_EVENT_FREE 2