Summary:
Currently the FDR log writer, upon flushing, dumps a sequence of buffers from
its freelist to disk. A reader can read the first buffer up to an EOB record,
but then it is unclear how far ahead to scan to find the next threads traces.
There are a few ways to handle this problem.
1. The reader has externalized knowledge of the buffer size.
2. The size of buffers is in the file header or otherwise encoded in the log.
3. Only write out the portion of the buffer with records. When released, the
buffers are marked with a size.
4. The reader looks for memory that matches a pattern and synchronizes on it.
2 and 3 seem the most flexible and 2 does not rule 3 out.
This is an implementation of 2.
In addition, the function handler for fdr more aggressively checks for
finalization and makes an attempt to release its buffer.
Reviewers: pelikan, dberris
Reviewed By: dberris
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31384
llvm-svn: 298982
Summary:
In this change we introduce the notion of a "flight data recorder" mode
for XRay logging, where XRay logs in-memory first, and write out data
on-demand as required (as opposed to the naive implementation that keeps
logging while tracing is "on"). This depends on D26232 where we
implement the core data structure for holding the buffers that threads
will be using to write out records of operation.
This implementation only currently works on x86_64 and depends heavily
on the TSC math to write out smaller records to the inmemory buffers.
Also, this implementation defines two different kinds of records with
different sizes (compared to the current naive implementation): a
MetadataRecord (16 bytes) and a FunctionRecord (8 bytes). MetadataRecord
entries are meant to write out information like the thread ID for which
the metadata record is defined for, whether the execution of a thread
moved to a different CPU, etc. while a FunctionRecord represents the
different kinds of function call entry/exit records we might encounter
in the course of a thread's execution along with a delta from the last
time the logging handler was called.
While this implementation is not exactly what is described in the
original XRay whitepaper, this one gives us an initial implementation
that we can iterate and build upon.
Reviewers: echristo, rSerge, majnemer
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, llvm-commits, mgorny
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27038
llvm-svn: 293015
Summary:
In this change we introduce the notion of a "flight data recorder" mode
for XRay logging, where XRay logs in-memory first, and write out data
on-demand as required (as opposed to the naive implementation that keeps
logging while tracing is "on"). This depends on D26232 where we
implement the core data structure for holding the buffers that threads
will be using to write out records of operation.
This implementation only currently works on x86_64 and depends heavily
on the TSC math to write out smaller records to the inmemory buffers.
Also, this implementation defines two different kinds of records with
different sizes (compared to the current naive implementation): a
MetadataRecord (16 bytes) and a FunctionRecord (8 bytes). MetadataRecord
entries are meant to write out information like the thread ID for which
the metadata record is defined for, whether the execution of a thread
moved to a different CPU, etc. while a FunctionRecord represents the
different kinds of function call entry/exit records we might encounter
in the course of a thread's execution along with a delta from the last
time the logging handler was called.
While this implementation is not exactly what is described in the
original XRay whitepaper, this one gives us an initial implementation
that we can iterate and build upon.
Reviewers: echristo, rSerge, majnemer
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, llvm-commits, mgorny
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27038
llvm-svn: 290852
Depends on D21612 which implements the building blocks for the compiler-rt
implementation of the XRay runtime. We use a naive in-memory log of fixed-size
entries that get written out to a log file when the buffers are full, and when
the thread exits.
This implementation lays some foundations on to allowing for more complex XRay
records to be written to the log in subsequent changes. It also defines the format
that the function call accounting tool in D21987 will start building upon.
Once D21987 lands, we should be able to start defining more tests using that tool
once the function call accounting tool becomes part of the llvm distribution.
Reviewers: echristo, kcc, rnk, eugenis, majnemer, rSerge
Subscribers: sdardis, rSerge, dberris, tberghammer, danalbert, srhines, majnemer, llvm-commits, mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D21982
llvm-svn: 279805
Dean Michael Berris