ladybird/Userland/profile.cpp
Andreas Kling b32e961a84 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
2019-12-11 20:36:56 +01:00

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#include <serenity.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
if (argc != 3) {
printf("usage: profile <pid> <on|off>\n");
return 0;
}
pid_t pid = atoi(argv[1]);
bool enabled = !strcmp(argv[2], "on");
if (enabled) {
if (profiling_enable(pid) < 0) {
perror("profiling_enable");
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
if (profiling_disable(pid) < 0) {
perror("profiling_disable");
return 1;
}
return 0;
}