In this change, the support comes in two flavours:
--perf_jit_prof - outputs the files in a new perf format that only works with a
patched perf tool (patch obtained from Stephane Eranian). Both 'perf report' and
'perf annotate' are supported (the file format also contains the machine code).
--perf_basic_prof - outputs the files in a format that the existing perf tool
can consume. Only 'perf report' is supported.
In both cases, we have to disable code compaction because the perf tool does not
understand code relocation. (We are told that code relocation should be
supported soon.)
Usage:
perf record -g d8 --perf_jit_prof --no_compact_code_space my.js
perf report
The change itself is straightforward - we simply listen to code events and
write an entry to a log file for every new piece of code.
I am not yet sure whether we should keep both versions or just one (and which
one). My hope is the reviewers can help here.
R=danno@chromium.org
BUG=
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Drop the previous Mutex and ScopedLock classes from platform files.
Add new Mutex, RecursiveMutex and LockGuard classes, which are
designed after their C++11 counterparts, so that at some point
we can simply drop our custom code and switch to the C++11
classes. We distinguish regular and recursive mutexes, as the
latter don't work well with condition variables, which will be
introduced by a followup CL.
R=mstarzinger@chromium.org
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The preprocessor defines ENABLE_LOGGING_AND_PROFILING and ENABLE_VMSTATE_TRACKING has been removed as these where required to be turned on for Crankshaft to work. To re-enable reducing the binary size by leaving out heap and CPU profiler a new set of defines needs to be created.
R=ager@chromium.org
BUG=v8:1271
TEST=all
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Switched to using binary low-level log instead of the textual log used
by the ticks processor. The binary log contains code-related events,
code object names, and their bodies. When writing to the log we ask
glibc to use a larger buffer. To avoid complex processing of the
snapshot log (which is still textual) the serializer emits final
snapshot position to code name mappings that can be quickly be read
without replaying the snapshot log. (This might be useful for the
ticks processor.)
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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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It seems that when calling a method that has two overloaded versions like this:
f(char* format, ...)
f(char* format, va_list args)
with a second pointer argument: f("format", pointer), the second version is picked up.
I've found a description of a similar issue here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/63112
So, to resolve this ambiguity, I've named such LogMessageBuilder's Append functions differently.
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Code addresses are now written as an offset from the previous address for ticks, code move and delete events. Employed backreference and RLE compression for code move and delete events. This gives additional 30% log size reduction for benchmarks run w/o snapshot.
Overall compression results (compared with the revision of V8 having no compression):
- V8: 70% size reduction for benchmarks run w/o snapshot (for reference, gzip gives 87%)
- Chromium: 65% size reduction for public html version of benchmarks (v4) (for reference, gzip gives 90%)
The one obvious opportunity for improving compression results in Chromium is to compress URLs of scripts.
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Two techniques are involved:
- compress repeated line ends (common stack beginnings) by using back references;
- do RLE compression of repeated tick events.
This gives only 5% size reduction on benchmarks run, but this is because tick events are only comprise 10% of file size. Under Chromium winnings are bigger because long repeated samples of idleness are now compressed into a single line.
Tickprocessor will be updated in the next patch.
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When profiler's memory buffer is filled up, profiling is stopped and it is ensured that the last record in the buffer is "profiler,\"pause\"" thus making the end of profiling session explicit. Otherwise DevTools Profiler would need to guess whether the current profiling session has been stopped.
Tested with Chromium.
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The goal of this change is to allow longer profiling sessions and preserve memory when profiler isn't started. The buffer starts with 64K and grows until it reaches the upper limit, which is currently set to 50MB --- according to my evaluations, this is enough for at least 20 minutes of GMail profiling. As we're planning to introduce compression for the profiler log, this time boundary will be significantly increased soon.
To make possible unit testing of the new component, I've factored out Logger's utility classes into a separate source file: log-utils.h/cc. Log and LogMessageBuilder are moved there from log.cc without any semantical changes.
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