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Kernel: Implement a simple process time profiler

The kernel now supports basic profiling of all the threads in a process
by calling profiling_enable(pid_t). You finish the profiling by calling
profiling_disable(pid_t).

This all works by recording thread stacks when the timer interrupt
fires and the current thread is in a process being profiled.
Note that symbolication is deferred until profiling_disable() to avoid
adding more noise than necessary to the profile.

A simple "/bin/profile" command is included here that can be used to
start/stop profiling like so:

    $ profile 10 on
    ... wait ...
    $ profile 10 off

After a profile has been recorded, it can be fetched in /proc/profile

There are various limits (or "bugs") on this mechanism at the moment:

- Only one process can be profiled at a time.
- We allocate 8MB for the samples, if you use more space, things will
  not work, and probably break a bit.
- Things will probably fall apart if the profiled process dies during
  profiling, or while extracing /proc/profile
This commit is contained in:
Andreas Kling 2019-12-11 20:36:56 +01:00
parent adb1870628
commit b32e961a84
13 changed files with 388 additions and 135 deletions

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@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
#include <Kernel/Devices/PCSpeaker.h>
#include <Kernel/FileSystem/FileDescription.h>
#include <Kernel/Process.h>
#include <Kernel/Profiling.h>
#include <Kernel/RTC.h>
#include <Kernel/Scheduler.h>
@ -552,6 +553,17 @@ void Scheduler::timer_tick(RegisterDump& regs)
s_beep_timeout = 0;
}
if (current->process().is_profiling()) {
auto backtrace = current->raw_backtrace(regs.ebp);
auto& sample = Profiling::next_sample_slot();
sample.pid = current->pid();
sample.tid = current->tid();
sample.timestamp = g_uptime;
for (size_t i = 0; i < min((size_t)backtrace.size(), Profiling::max_stack_frame_count); ++i) {
sample.frames[i] = backtrace[i];
}
}
if (current->tick())
return;