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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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@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ public:
const Process& process() const { return m_process; }
String backtrace(ProcessInspectionHandle&) const;
Vector<u32> raw_backtrace(u32 ebp) const;
const String& name() const { return m_name; }
void set_name(StringView s) { m_name = s; }