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1 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
4 
5 #ifndef BASE_DEBUG_PROFILER_H_
6 #define BASE_DEBUG_PROFILER_H_
7 
8 #include <stddef.h>
9 
10 #include <string>
11 
12 #include "base/base_export.h"
13 
14 // The Profiler functions allow usage of the underlying sampling based
15 // profiler. If the application has not been built with the necessary
16 // flags (-DENABLE_PROFILING and not -DNO_TCMALLOC) then these functions
17 // are noops.
18 namespace base {
19 namespace debug {
20 
21 // Start profiling with the supplied name.
22 // {pid} will be replaced by the process' pid and {count} will be replaced
23 // by the count of the profile run (starts at 1 with each process).
24 BASE_EXPORT void StartProfiling(const std::string& name);
25 
26 // Stop profiling and write out data.
27 BASE_EXPORT void StopProfiling();
28 
29 // Force data to be written to file.
30 BASE_EXPORT void FlushProfiling();
31 
32 // Returns true if process is being profiled.
33 BASE_EXPORT bool BeingProfiled();
34 
35 // Reset profiling after a fork, which disables timers.
36 BASE_EXPORT void RestartProfilingAfterFork();
37 
38 // Returns true iff this executable supports profiling.
39 BASE_EXPORT bool IsProfilingSupported();
40 
41 // There's a class of profilers that use "return address swizzling" to get a
42 // hook on function exits. This class of profilers uses some form of entry hook,
43 // like e.g. binary instrumentation, or a compiler flag, that calls a hook each
44 // time a function is invoked. The hook then switches the return address on the
45 // stack for the address of an exit hook function, and pushes the original
46 // return address to a shadow stack of some type. When in due course the CPU
47 // executes a return to the exit hook, the exit hook will do whatever work it
48 // does on function exit, then arrange to return to the original return address.
49 // This class of profiler does not play well with programs that look at the
50 // return address, as does e.g. V8. V8 uses the return address to certain
51 // runtime functions to find the JIT code that called it, and from there finds
52 // the V8 data structures associated to the JS function involved.
53 // A return address resolution function is used to fix this. It allows such
54 // programs to resolve a location on stack where a return address originally
55 // resided, to the shadow stack location where the profiler stashed it.
56 typedef uintptr_t (*ReturnAddressLocationResolver)(
57     uintptr_t return_addr_location);
58 
59 // This type declaration must match V8's FunctionEntryHook.
60 typedef void (*DynamicFunctionEntryHook)(uintptr_t function,
61                                          uintptr_t return_addr_location);
62 
63 // The functions below here are to support profiling V8-generated code.
64 // V8 has provisions for generating a call to an entry hook for newly generated
65 // JIT code, and it can push symbol information on code generation and advise
66 // when the garbage collector moves code. The functions declarations below here
67 // make glue between V8's facilities and a profiler.
68 
69 // This type declaration must match V8's FunctionEntryHook.
70 typedef void (*DynamicFunctionEntryHook)(uintptr_t function,
71                                          uintptr_t return_addr_location);
72 
73 typedef void (*AddDynamicSymbol)(const void* address,
74                                  size_t length,
75                                  const char* name,
76                                  size_t name_len);
77 typedef void (*MoveDynamicSymbol)(const void* address, const void* new_address);
78 
79 
80 // If this binary is instrumented and the instrumentation supplies a function
81 // for each of those purposes, find and return the function in question.
82 // Otherwise returns NULL.
83 BASE_EXPORT ReturnAddressLocationResolver GetProfilerReturnAddrResolutionFunc();
84 BASE_EXPORT DynamicFunctionEntryHook GetProfilerDynamicFunctionEntryHookFunc();
85 BASE_EXPORT AddDynamicSymbol GetProfilerAddDynamicSymbolFunc();
86 BASE_EXPORT MoveDynamicSymbol GetProfilerMoveDynamicSymbolFunc();
87 
88 }  // namespace debug
89 }  // namespace base
90 
91 #endif  // BASE_DEBUG_PROFILER_H_
92