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Andreas Kling 5dafb72370 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
2021-01-11 11:36:00 +01:00
.github Meta: Unify build-and-test jobs using a matrix build 2021-01-09 19:22:23 +01:00
AK TestTypeTraits: Fix incorrectly namespaced nullptr_t 2021-01-10 18:20:14 +01:00
Applications AK: Make MappedFile heap-allocated and ref-counted 2021-01-10 16:49:13 +01:00
Base Base: Change anon's default password from "foo\n" to just "foo". 2021-01-10 16:40:05 +01:00
Demos Screensaver: Disable double buffering and hide cursor 2021-01-06 09:31:25 +01:00
DevTools Kernel+Profiler: Make profiling per-process and without core dumps 2021-01-11 11:36:00 +01:00
Documentation Meta+Docs+CI: Require clang-format >= 11 2020-12-31 21:51:00 +01:00
Games Chess: Fix button size in the piece promotion dialog 2021-01-09 15:05:31 +01:00
Kernel Kernel+Profiler: Make profiling per-process and without core dumps 2021-01-11 11:36:00 +01:00
Libraries Kernel+Profiler: Make profiling per-process and without core dumps 2021-01-11 11:36:00 +01:00
MenuApplets MenuApplets: Open the correct tab in SystemMonitor on applet click 2021-01-09 13:27:23 +01:00
Meta Meta: Only complain about linter tools if relevant files have changed 2021-01-10 16:39:21 +01:00
Ports TextEditor+Meta+Ports+Shell: Remove blank lines at the end of some files 2021-01-03 17:12:50 +01:00
Services Kernel+Profiler: Make profiling per-process and without core dumps 2021-01-11 11:36:00 +01:00
Shell LibLine: Implement support for C-V<key> 2021-01-10 16:58:08 +01:00
Toolchain Toolchain: Disable exceptions by default 2021-01-04 21:57:03 +01:00
Userland AK: Make MappedFile heap-allocated and ref-counted 2021-01-10 16:49:13 +01:00
.clang-format Meta: Update .clang-format to not indent nested namespaces 2020-03-14 10:10:21 +01:00
.gitattributes Meta: Add .gitattributes file 2020-07-30 17:07:40 +02:00
.gitignore Revert "Meta: Remove catchall lines in .gitignore (#4565)" 2020-12-28 00:16:46 +01:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml Meta: Update lint-{clang-format,shell-scripts}.sh to take a list of files 2020-12-27 21:25:27 +01:00
.prettierignore Meta: Add lint-prettier.sh 2020-12-27 21:25:27 +01:00
.prettierrc Meta: Move prettier config files to the root of the repository 2020-08-24 18:21:33 +02:00
CMakeLists.txt CMake: Only enable "MacOS workaround" on MacOS 2021-01-07 11:41:05 +01:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md Meta: Move code of conduct (lol) to a separate file 2019-10-23 10:05:06 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Meta+Docs+CI: Require clang-format >= 11 2020-12-31 21:51:00 +01:00
LICENSE Meta: Update project copyright dates (2018-2021) :^) 2021-01-01 01:14:16 +01:00
ReadMe.md Meta: Add Brendan Coles to the contributors list :^) 2020-12-24 10:47:36 +01:00

SerenityOS

Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.

Build status Fuzzing Status

About

SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.

Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix. This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like.

I (Andreas) regularly post raw hacking sessions and demos on my YouTube channel.

Sometimes I write about the system on my github.io blog.

I'm also on Patreon and GitHub Sponsors if you would like to show some support that way.

Screenshot

Screenshot as of 8ea4375

Kernel features

  • x86 (32-bit) kernel with pre-emptive multi-threading
  • Hardware protections (SMEP, SMAP, UMIP, NX, WP, TSD, ...)
  • IPv4 stack with ARP, TCP, UDP and ICMP protocols
  • ext2 filesystem
  • POSIX signals
  • Purgeable memory
  • /proc filesystem
  • Pseudoterminals (with /dev/pts filesystem)
  • Filesystem notifications
  • CPU and memory profiling
  • SoundBlaster 16 driver
  • VMWare/QEMU mouse integration

System services

  • Launch/session daemon (SystemServer)
  • Compositing window server (WindowServer)
  • Text console manager (TTYServer)
  • DNS client (LookupServer)
  • Network protocols server (ProtocolServer)
  • Software-mixing sound daemon (AudioServer)
  • Desktop notifications (NotificationServer)
  • HTTP server (WebServer)
  • Telnet server (TelnetServer)
  • DHCP client (DHCPClient)

Libraries

  • C++ templates and containers (AK)
  • Event loop and utilities (LibCore)
  • 2D graphics library (LibGfx)
  • GUI toolkit (LibGUI)
  • Cross-process communication library (LibIPC)
  • HTML/CSS engine (LibWeb)
  • JavaScript engine (LibJS)
  • Markdown (LibMarkdown)
  • Audio (LibAudio)
  • PCI database (LibPCIDB)
  • Terminal emulation (LibVT)
  • Out-of-process network protocol I/O (LibProtocol)
  • Mathematical functions (LibM)
  • ELF file handling (LibELF)
  • POSIX threading (LibPthread)
  • Higher-level threading (LibThread)
  • Transport Layer Security (LibTLS)
  • HTTP and HTTPS (LibHTTP)

Userland features

  • Unix-like libc and userland
  • Shell with pipes and I/O redirection
  • On-line help system (both terminal and GUI variants)
  • Web browser (Browser)
  • C++ IDE (HackStudio)
  • IRC client
  • Desktop synthesizer (Piano)
  • Various desktop apps & games
  • Color themes

How do I read the documentation?

Man pages are browsable outside of SerenityOS under Base/usr/share/man.

When running SerenityOS you can use man for the terminal interface, or help for the GUI interface.

How do I build and run this?

See the SerenityOS build instructions

Before opening an issue

Please see the issue policy.

Communication hubs

The main hub is #serenityos on the Freenode IRC network.

We also have a project mailing list: serenityos-dev.

Author

Contributors

(And many more!) The people listed above have landed more than 100 commits in the project. :^)

License

SerenityOS is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.