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author | Andreas Kling <awesomekling@gmail.com> | 2019-12-11 20:36:56 +0100 |
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committer | Andreas Kling <awesomekling@gmail.com> | 2019-12-11 20:36:56 +0100 |
commit | b32e961a844121ed71f7f1e82011fea2d8e3469f (patch) | |
tree | 35c3e845a047ef980d2ce58f98d38f64c82c6bb1 /Kernel/Makefile | |
parent | adb1870628b3939f7e8463e016c8cd9e9de0e3d2 (diff) | |
download | serenity-b32e961a844121ed71f7f1e82011fea2d8e3469f.zip |
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
Diffstat (limited to 'Kernel/Makefile')
-rw-r--r-- | Kernel/Makefile | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Kernel/Makefile b/Kernel/Makefile index 932bcfef42..987a9a14db 100644 --- a/Kernel/Makefile +++ b/Kernel/Makefile @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ CXX_OBJS = \ PCI.o \ Process.o \ ProcessTracer.o \ + Profiling.o \ RTC.o \ Scheduler.o \ SharedBuffer.o \ |