Since 2.6.31 perf_events interface has been available in the
kernel. There's a nice tool called "perf" (linux-2.6/tools/perf) that
uses this interface and provides capabilities similar to oprofile. The
simplest form of its usage is just dumping the raw log (trace) of
events generated by the kernel. In this patch I'm adding a script
(tools/ll_prof.py) to build profiles based on perf trace and our code
log. All the heavy-lifting is done by perf. Compared to oprofile agent
this approach does not require recompilation and supports code moving
garbage collections.
Expected usage is documented in the ll_prof's help. Basically one
should run V8 under perf passing --ll-prof flag and then the produced
logs can be analyzed by tools/ll_prof.py.
The new --ll-prof flag enables logging of generated code object
locations and names (like --log-code), and also of their bodies, which
can be later disassembled and annotated by the script.
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This is to make possible enabling usage of the new profiling subsystem
in Chromium without much hassle. The idea is pretty simple: unless the
new profiling API is used, all works as usual, as soon as Chromium
starts to use the new API, it will work too.
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In browser (DevTools) mode, only non-native JS code and callbacks are reported.
Also, added "(garbage collector)" entry which accumulates samples count in GC state.
Trying to display "(compiler)" and "(external)" only brings confusion,
because it ends up in displaying scripts code under "(compiler)" node, and DOM
event handlers under "(external)" node, which looks weird.
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The problem appeared due to a fact that stubs doesn't create a stack
frame, reusing the stack frame of the caller function. When building
stack traces, the current function is retrieved from PC, and its
callees are retrieved by traversing the stack backwards. Thus, for
stubs, the stub itself was discovered via PC, and then stub's caller's
caller was retrieved from stack.
To fix this problem, a pointer to JSFunction object is now captured
from the topmost stack frame, and is saved into stack trace log
record. Then a simple heuristics is applied whether a referred
function should be added to decoded stack, or not, to avoid reporting
the same function twice (from PC and from the pointer.)
BUG=553
TEST=added to mjsunit/tools/tickprocessor
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available. We use this to ensure that snapshots on MacOSX can
use SSE2 instructions. Also clean up and assertify the
handling of things we can't do when we are generating a
snapshot. Fix a bug in the new serialization tests where
they activated Snapshot::enable() too late after code had been
generated that assumed no snapshots.
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Tag Mac OS X VM regions allocated by V8. This has no effect other than making
it possible to identify V8 allocations in the vmmap(1) memory profiling tool,
to get a better idea of an embedder's/Chrome's memory usage.
CRBUG=23455
TEST=Tested by running vmmap(1) and looking for "Memory tag=255" in the output.
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Previous implementation of sampler for OS X was copied from the Linux one. But BSD (OS X) and Linux has a very important difference in signal handling. LinuxThreads doesn't support the notion of process-directed signals. So, the SIGPROF signal was directed to the thread that installed the handler---the V8 thread. But on BSD, signal handling is implemented according to POSIX spec, where process-directed signal is to be handled by an arbitrary selected thread. By a coincidence, in V8's sample shell and in Chromium's test shell, V8's thread was picked almost every time, so sampling seemed working. But not in case of Chromium.
So, I've changed the implementation of profiler sampler to use the same scheme as on Windows---a dedicated thread with high priority is used to periodically pause and sample V8's thread.
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This issue was raised by Brett Wilson while reviewing my changelist for readability. Craig Silverstein (one of C++ SG maintainers) confirmed that we should declare one namespace per line. Our way of namespaces closing seems not violating style guides (there is no clear agreement on it), so I left it intact.
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a reason to stack allocate large chunks of stack space.
- Runtime_GetCFrames used to allocate a frame size of 52040 bytes.
- PreallocatedMemoryThread::Run used to allocate 32784 bytes.
- Fixed StringStream overflow conditions.
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and unprotecting it when (re)entering. The functionality is enabled
by the flag --protect-heap and requires V8 to be built with
ENABLE_HEAP_PROTECTION and ENABLE_LOGGING_AND_PROFILING defined.
Implemented on Linux and Windows but not yet for other platforms.
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Initially the platform socket implementation has been moved from the Linux, Mac OS and FreeBSD platforms to the POSIX platform.
If implementation which ends up in the POSIX platform at some point cannot be the same across POSIX platforms the implementation can easily be moved back into the individual POSIX "complient" platforms.
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The code has been compiled and tested on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
The FreeBSD version is a copy of the Linux version which should work on FreeBSD as well. According to the FreeBSD documentation clock_gettime is part of the standard C library so the assumption is that no additional link libraries is required for FreeBSD.
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The new Socket class is an encapsulation of the standard BSD socket API. As it depends on platform specific include files and have some slight platform variations it is part of the platform code.
On Mac OS only the option SO_REUSEADDR is set to true for server sockets. Running the test required it as the bound listener socket would sometimes end up in TIME_WAIT. On Windows and Linux this has never been observed (given the client end of the socket is closed before the server end).
The code has been tested on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. The FreeBSD version is a copy of the Linux version but has not been compiled nor tested.
Missing Xcode project updates.
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Currently only two stack frames are sampled (current function and its caller).
Output of tick processor looks like this:
[Call profile]:
total call path
15.2% LazyCompile: am3 crypto.js:108 <- LazyCompile: montReduce crypto.js:583
6.5% LazyCompile: am3 crypto.js:108 <- LazyCompile: bnpSquareTo crypto.js:431
2.9% Builtin: KeyedStoreIC_Generic <- LazyCompile: montReduce crypto.js:583
2.3% LazyCompile: am3 crypto.js:108 <- LazyCompile: bnpMultiplyTo crypto.js:415
Tested under Windows, Linux and OS X.
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* Make old_data_space non-executable on OSs and hardware that support it.
* Rename old_space to old_pointer_space (can contain pointers, esp. to new space).
* Ensure that individual pages allocated for old_space are only executable when
they are for code objects.
* Ensure Space::Setup can cope with non-aligned memory.
* Make some methods on Spaces virtual. Make a way to iterate over all spaces.
* Replace executability flag with Executability enum in order to make intent at
call site clearer.
* Fix serialization/deserialization to allocate write barrier memory for large
arrays.
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In the shell sample don't print the result of executing a script, only
evaluating expressions.
Fixed issue when building samples on Windows using a shared V8
library. Added visibility option on Linux build which makes the
generated library 18% smaller.
Changed build system to accept multiple build modes in one build and
generate seperate objects, libraries and executables for each mode.
Removed deferred negation optimization (a * -b => -(a * b)) since this
visibly changes operand conversion order.
Improved parsing performance by introducing stack guard in preparsing.
Without a stack guard preparsing always bails out with stack overflow.
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Added a few samples and support for building them. The samples include a simple shell that can be used to benchmark and test V8.
Changed V8::GetVersion to return the version as a string.
Added source for lazily loaded scripts to snapshots and made serialization non-destructive.
Improved ARM support by fixing the write barrier code to use aligned loads and stores and by removing premature locals optimization that relied on broken support for callee-saved registers (removed).
Refactored the code for marking live objects during garbage collection and the code for allocating objects in paged spaces. Introduced an abstraction for the map word of a heap-allocated object and changed the memory allocator to allocate executable memory only for spaces that may contain code objects.
Moved StringBuilder to utils.h and ScopedLock to platform.h, where they can be used by debugging and logging modules. Added thread-safe message queues for dealing with debugger events.
Fixed the source code reported by toString for certain builtin empty functions and made sure that the prototype property of a function is enumerable.
Improved performance of converting values to condition flags in generated code.
Merged disassembler-{arch} files.
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