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#ifndef INCLUDE_PERFETTO_TRACING_TRACING_H_
#define INCLUDE_PERFETTO_TRACING_TRACING_H_

#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>

#include <functional>
#include <memory>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

#include "perfetto/base/compiler.h"
#include "perfetto/base/export.h"
#include "perfetto/base/logging.h"
#include "perfetto/tracing/core/forward_decls.h"
#include "perfetto/tracing/internal/in_process_tracing_backend.h"
#include "perfetto/tracing/internal/system_tracing_backend.h"

namespace perfetto {

namespace internal {
class TracingMuxerImpl;
}

class TracingBackend;
class Platform;
class TracingSession;  // Declared below.

enum BackendType : uint32_t {
  kUnspecifiedBackend = 0,

  // Connects to a previously-initialized perfetto tracing backend for
  // in-process. If the in-process backend has not been previously initialized
  // it will do so and create the tracing service on a dedicated thread.
  kInProcessBackend = 1 << 0,

  // Connects to the system tracing service (e.g. on Linux/Android/Mac uses a
  // named UNIX socket).
  kSystemBackend = 1 << 1,

  // Used to provide a custom IPC transport to connect to the service.
  // TracingInitArgs::custom_backend must be non-null and point to an
  // indefinitely lived instance.
  kCustomBackend = 1 << 2,
};

struct TracingInitArgs {
  uint32_t backends = 0;                     // One or more BackendFlags.
  TracingBackend* custom_backend = nullptr;  // [Optional].

  // [Optional] Platform implementation. It allows the embedder to take control
  // of platform-specific bits like thread creation and TLS slot handling. If
  // not set it will use Platform::GetDefaultPlatform().
  Platform* platform = nullptr;

  // [Optional] Tune the size of the shared memory buffer between the current
  // process and the service backend(s). This is a trade-off between memory
  // footprint and the ability to sustain bursts of trace writes (see comments
  // in shared_memory_abi.h).
  // If set, the value must be a multiple of 4KB. The value can be ignored if
  // larger than kMaxShmSize (32MB) or not a multiple of 4KB.
  uint32_t shmem_size_hint_kb = 0;

  // [Optional] Specifies the preferred size of each page in the shmem buffer.
  // This is a trade-off between IPC overhead and fragmentation/efficiency of
  // the shmem buffer in presence of multiple writer threads.
  // Must be one of [4, 8, 16, 32].
  uint32_t shmem_page_size_hint_kb = 0;

 protected:
  friend class Tracing;
  friend class internal::TracingMuxerImpl;

  // Used only by the DCHECK in tracing.cc, to check that the config is the
  // same in case of re-initialization.
  bool operator==(const TracingInitArgs& other) const {
    return std::tie(backends, custom_backend, platform, shmem_size_hint_kb,
                    shmem_page_size_hint_kb, in_process_backend_factory_,
                    system_backend_factory_, dcheck_is_on_) ==
           std::tie(other.backends, other.custom_backend, other.platform,
                    other.shmem_size_hint_kb, other.shmem_page_size_hint_kb,
                    other.in_process_backend_factory_,
                    other.system_backend_factory_, other.dcheck_is_on_);
  }

  using BackendFactoryFunction = TracingBackend* (*)();
  BackendFactoryFunction in_process_backend_factory_ = nullptr;
  BackendFactoryFunction system_backend_factory_ = nullptr;
  bool dcheck_is_on_ = PERFETTO_DCHECK_IS_ON();
};

// The entry-point for using perfetto.
class PERFETTO_EXPORT Tracing {
 public:
  // Initializes Perfetto with the given backends in the calling process and/or
  // with a user-provided backend. No-op if called more than once.
  static inline void Initialize(const TracingInitArgs& args)
      PERFETTO_ALWAYS_INLINE {
    TracingInitArgs args_copy(args);
    // This code is inlined to allow dead-code elimination for unused backends.
    // This saves ~200 KB when not using the in-process backend (b/148198993).
    // The logic behind it is the following:
    // Nothing other than the code below references the two GetInstance()
    // methods. From a linker-graph viewpoint, those GetInstance() pull in many
    // other pieces of the codebase (e.g. InProcessTracingBackend pulls the
    // whole TracingServiceImpl, SystemTracingBackend pulls the whole //ipc
    // layer). Due to the inline, the compiler can see through the code and
    // realize that some branches are always not taken. When that happens, no
    // reference to the backends' GetInstance() is emitted and that allows the
    // linker GC to get rid of the entire set of dependencies.
    if (args.backends & kInProcessBackend) {
      args_copy.in_process_backend_factory_ =
          &internal::InProcessTracingBackend::GetInstance;
    }
    if (args.backends & kSystemBackend) {
      args_copy.system_backend_factory_ =
          &internal::SystemTracingBackend::GetInstance;
    }
    InitializeInternal(args_copy);
  }

  // Start a new tracing session using the given tracing backend. Use
  // |kUnspecifiedBackend| to select an available backend automatically.
  // For the moment this can be used only when initializing tracing in
  // kInProcess mode. For the system mode use the 'bin/perfetto' cmdline client.
  static std::unique_ptr<TracingSession> NewTrace(
      BackendType = kUnspecifiedBackend);

 private:
  static void InitializeInternal(const TracingInitArgs&);

  Tracing() = delete;
};

class PERFETTO_EXPORT TracingSession {
 public:
  virtual ~TracingSession();

  // Configure the session passing the trace config.
  // If a writable file handle is given through |fd|, the trace will
  // automatically written to that file. Otherwise you should call ReadTrace()
  // to retrieve the trace data. This call does not take ownership of |fd|.
  // TODO(primiano): add an error callback.
  virtual void Setup(const TraceConfig&, int fd = -1) = 0;

  // Enable tracing asynchronously.
  virtual void Start() = 0;

  // Enable tracing and block until tracing has started. Note that if data
  // sources are registered after this call was initiated, the call may return
  // before the additional data sources have started. Also, if other producers
  // (e.g., with system-wide tracing) have registered data sources without start
  // notification support, this call may return before those data sources have
  // started.
  virtual void StartBlocking() = 0;

  // Disable tracing asynchronously.
  // Use SetOnStopCallback() to get a notification when the tracing session is
  // fully stopped and all data sources have acked.
  virtual void Stop() = 0;

  // Disable tracing and block until tracing has stopped.
  virtual void StopBlocking() = 0;

  // This callback will be invoked when tracing is disabled.
  // This can happen either when explicitly calling TracingSession.Stop() or
  // when the trace reaches its |duration_ms| time limit.
  // This callback will be invoked on an internal perfetto thread.
  virtual void SetOnStopCallback(std::function<void()>) = 0;

  // Struct passed as argument to the callback passed to ReadTrace().
  // [data, size] is guaranteed to contain 1 or more full trace packets, which
  // can be decoded using trace.proto. No partial or truncated packets are
  // exposed. If the trace is empty this returns a zero-sized nullptr with
  // |has_more| == true to signal EOF.
  // This callback will be invoked on an internal perfetto thread.
  struct ReadTraceCallbackArgs {
    const char* data = nullptr;
    size_t size = 0;

    // When false, this will be the last invocation of the callback for this
    // read cycle.
    bool has_more = false;
  };

  // Reads back the trace data (raw protobuf-encoded bytes) asynchronously.
  // Can be called at any point during the trace, typically but not necessarily,
  // after stopping. Reading the trace data is a destructive operation w.r.t.
  // contents of the trace buffer and is not idempotent.
  // A single ReadTrace() call can yield >1 callback invocations, until
  // |has_more| is false.
  using ReadTraceCallback = std::function<void(ReadTraceCallbackArgs)>;
  virtual void ReadTrace(ReadTraceCallback) = 0;

  // Synchronous version of ReadTrace(). It blocks the calling thread until all
  // the trace contents are read. This is slow and inefficient (involves more
  // copies) and is mainly intended for testing.
  std::vector<char> ReadTraceBlocking();
};

}  // namespace perfetto

#endif  // INCLUDE_PERFETTO_TRACING_TRACING_H_