This only moves the issue, as PerformanceEventBuffer::add_process can't
fail yet, but this will allow us to remove the non-failable
Custody::absolute_path API.
When walking the stack to generate a perf_event sample, we now check
if a userspace stack frame points back into kernel memory.
It was possible to use this as an arbitrary kernel memory read. :^)
We now use AK::Error and AK::ErrorOr<T> in both kernel and userspace!
This was a slightly tedious refactoring that took a long time, so it's
not unlikely that some bugs crept in.
Nevertheless, it does pass basic functionality testing, and it's just
real nice to finally see the same pattern in all contexts. :^)
A new RegisterState header includes the platform specific RegisterState
header based on the platform being compiled.
The Aarch64 RegisterState header contains stubs for Debug
Making userspace provide a global string ID was silly, and made the API
extremely difficult to use correctly in a global profiling context.
Instead, simply make the kernel do the string ID allocation for us.
This also allows us to convert the string storage to a Vector in the
kernel (and an array in the JSON profile data.)
This syscall allows userspace to register a keyed string that appears in
a new "strings" JSON object in profile output.
This will be used to add custom strings to profile signposts. :^)
This allows tracing the syscalls made by a thread through the kernel's
performance event framework, which is similar in principle to strace.
Currently, this merely logs a stack backtrace to the current thread's
performance event buffer whenever a syscall is made, if profiling is
enabled. Future improvements could include tracing the arguments and
the return value, for example.
This commit converts naked `new`s to `AK::try_make` and `AK::try_create`
wherever possible. If the called constructor is private, this can not be
done, so we instead now use the standard-defined and compiler-agnostic
`new (nothrow)`.
Hook the kernel page fault handler and capture page fault events when
the fault has a current thread attached in TLS. We capture the eip and
ebp so we can unwind the stack and locate which pieces of code are
generating the most page faults.
Co-authored-by: Gunnar Beutner <gbeutner@serenityos.org>
By constraining two implementations, the compiler will select the best
fitting one. All this will require is duplicating the implementation and
simplifying for the `void` case.
This constraining also informs both the caller and compiler by passing
the callback parameter types as part of the constraint
(e.g.: `IterationFunction<int>`).
Some `for_each` functions in LibELF only take functions which return
`void`. This is a minimal correctness check, as it removes one way for a
function to incompletely do something.
There seems to be a possible idiom where inside a lambda, a `return;` is
the same as `continue;` in a for-loop.
This ensures that the lost_samples field is set to zero for the
first sample. We didn't lose any samples before the first sample
so this is the correct value. Without this Profiler gets confused
and draws the graph for the process which contains the first CPU
sample incorrectly (all zeroes usually).
We can lose profiling timer events for a few reasons, for example
disabled interrupts or system slowness. This accounts for lost
time between CPU samples by adding a field lost_samples to each
profiling event which tracks how many samples were lost immediately
preceding the event.
The current method of emitting performance events requires a bit of
boiler plate at every invocation, as well as having to ignore the
return code which isn't used outside of the perf event syscall. This
change attempts to clean that up by exposing high level API's that
can be used around the code base.
This turns the perfcore format into more a log than it was before,
which lets us properly log process, thread and region
creation/destruction. This also makes it unnecessary to dump the
process' regions every time it is scheduled like we did before.
Incidentally this also fixes 'profile -c' because we previously ended
up incorrectly dumping the parent's region map into the profile data.
Log-based mmap support enables profiling shared libraries which
are loaded at runtime, e.g. via dlopen().
This enables profiling both the parent and child process for
programs which use execve(). Previously we'd discard the profiling
data for the old process.
The Profiler tool has been updated to not treat thread IDs as
process IDs anymore. This enables support for processes with more
than one thread. Also, there's a new widget to filter which
process should be displayed.
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
This should provide some speed up, as currently searches for regions
containing a given address were performed in O(n) complexity, while
this container allows us to do those in O(logn).
The perfcore file format was previously limited to a single process
since the pid/executable/regions data was top-level in the JSON.
This patch moves the process-specific data into a top-level array
named "processes" and we now add entries for each process that has
been sampled during the profile run.
This makes it possible to see samples from multiple threads when
viewing a perfcore file with Profiler. This is extremely cool! :^)
The superuser can now call sys$profiling_enable() with PID -1 to enable
profiling of all running threads in the system. The perf events are
collected in a global PerformanceEventBuffer (currently 32 MiB in size.)
The events can be accessed via /proc/profile
