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

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Libraries/LibC/serenity.cpp b/Libraries/LibC/serenity.cpp
index 22756fe6a9..4d26facc60 100644
--- a/Libraries/LibC/serenity.cpp
+++ b/Libraries/LibC/serenity.cpp
@@ -16,4 +16,15 @@ int module_unload(const char* name, size_t name_length)
     __RETURN_WITH_ERRNO(rc, rc, -1);
 }
 
+int profiling_enable(pid_t pid)
+{
+    int rc = syscall(SC_profiling_enable, pid);
+    __RETURN_WITH_ERRNO(rc, rc, -1);
+}
+
+int profiling_disable(pid_t pid)
+{
+    int rc = syscall(SC_profiling_disable, pid);
+    __RETURN_WITH_ERRNO(rc, rc, -1);
+}
 }
diff --git a/Libraries/LibC/serenity.h b/Libraries/LibC/serenity.h
index 26e0ebc5b6..6aa6026185 100644
--- a/Libraries/LibC/serenity.h
+++ b/Libraries/LibC/serenity.h
@@ -41,4 +41,7 @@ __BEGIN_DECLS
 int module_load(const char* path, size_t path_length);
 int module_unload(const char* name, size_t name_length);
 
+int profiling_enable(pid_t);
+int profiling_disable(pid_t);
+
 __END_DECLS