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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*-
+ * vim: set ts=8 sts=2 et sw=2 tw=80:
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+#ifndef vm_GeckoProfiler_h
+#define vm_GeckoProfiler_h
+
+#include "mozilla/Attributes.h"
+#include "mozilla/DebugOnly.h"
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+#include "jspubtd.h"
+
+#include "js/AllocPolicy.h"
+#include "js/HashTable.h"
+#include "js/ProfilingCategory.h"
+#include "js/TypeDecls.h"
+#include "js/Utility.h"
+#include "threading/ProtectedData.h"
+
+/*
+ * Gecko Profiler integration with the JS Engine
+ * https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Performance/Profiling_with_the_Built-in_Profiler
+ *
+ * The Gecko Profiler (found in tools/profiler) is an implementation of a
+ * profiler which has the ability to walk the C++ stack as well as use
+ * instrumentation to gather information. When dealing with JS, however, the
+ * profiler needs integration with the engine because otherwise it is very
+ * difficult to figure out what javascript is executing.
+ *
+ * The current method of integration with the profiler is a form of
+ * instrumentation: every time a JS function is entered, a bit of information
+ * is pushed onto a stack that the profiler owns and maintains. This
+ * information is then popped at the end of the JS function. The profiler
+ * informs the JS engine of this stack at runtime, and it can by turned on/off
+ * dynamically. Each stack frame has type ProfilingStackFrame.
+ *
+ * Throughout execution, the size of the stack recorded in memory may exceed the
+ * maximum. The JS engine will not write any information past the maximum limit,
+ * but it will still maintain the size of the stack. Profiler code is aware of
+ * this and iterates the stack accordingly.
+ *
+ * There is some information pushed on the profiler stack for every JS function
+ * that is entered. First is a char* label with a description of what function
+ * was entered. Currently this string is of the form "function (file:line)" if
+ * there's a function name, or just "file:line" if there's no function name
+ * available. The other bit of information is the relevant C++ (native) stack
+ * pointer. This stack pointer is what enables the interleaving of the C++ and
+ * the JS stack. Finally, throughout execution of the function, some extra
+ * information may be updated on the ProfilingStackFrame structure.
+ *
+ * = Profile Strings
+ *
+ * The profile strings' allocations and deallocation must be carefully
+ * maintained, and ideally at a very low overhead cost. For this reason, the JS
+ * engine maintains a mapping of all known profile strings. These strings are
+ * keyed in lookup by a JSScript*, but are serialized with a JSFunction*,
+ * JSScript* pair. A JSScript will destroy its corresponding profile string when
+ * the script is finalized.
+ *
+ * For this reason, a char* pointer pushed on the profiler stack is valid only
+ * while it is on the profiler stack. The profiler uses sampling to read off
+ * information from this instrumented stack, and it therefore copies the string
+ * byte for byte when a JS function is encountered during sampling.
+ *
+ * = Native Stack Pointer
+ *
+ * The actual value pushed as the native pointer is nullptr for most JS
+ * functions. The reason for this is that there's actually very little
+ * correlation between the JS stack and the C++ stack because many JS functions
+ * all run in the same C++ frame, or can even go backwards in C++ when going
+ * from the JIT back to the interpreter.
+ *
+ * To alleviate this problem, all JS functions push nullptr as their "native
+ * stack pointer" to indicate that it's a JS function call. The function
+ * RunScript(), however, pushes an actual C++ stack pointer onto the profiler
+ * stack. This way when interleaving C++ and JS, if the Gecko Profiler sees a
+ * nullptr native stack pointer on the profiler stack, it looks backwards for
+ * the first non-nullptr pointer and uses that for all subsequent nullptr
+ * native stack pointers.
+ *
+ * = Line Numbers
+ *
+ * One goal of sampling is to get both a backtrace of the JS stack, but also
+ * know where within each function on the stack execution currently is. For
+ * this, each ProfilingStackFrame has a 'pc' field to tell where its execution
+ * currently is. This field is updated whenever a call is made to another JS
+ * function, and for the JIT it is also updated whenever the JIT is left.
+ *
+ * This field is in a union with a uint32_t 'line' so that C++ can make use of
+ * the field as well. It was observed that tracking 'line' via PCToLineNumber in
+ * JS was far too expensive, so that is why the pc instead of the translated
+ * line number is stored.
+ *
+ * As an invariant, if the pc is nullptr, then the JIT is currently executing
+ * generated code. Otherwise execution is in another JS function or in C++. With
+ * this in place, only the top frame of the stack can ever have nullptr as its
+ * pc. Additionally with this invariant, it is possible to maintain mappings of
+ * JIT code to pc which can be accessed safely because they will only be
+ * accessed from a signal handler when the JIT code is executing.
+ */
+
+class JS_PUBLIC_API ProfilingStack;
+
+namespace js {
+
+class BaseScript;
+class GeckoProfilerThread;
+
+// The `ProfileStringMap` weakly holds its `BaseScript*` keys and owns its
+// string values. Entries are removed when the `BaseScript` is finalized; see
+// `GeckoProfiler::onScriptFinalized`.
+using ProfileStringMap = HashMap<BaseScript*, JS::UniqueChars,
+ DefaultHasher<BaseScript*>, SystemAllocPolicy>;
+
+class GeckoProfilerRuntime {
+ JSRuntime* rt;
+ MainThreadData<ProfileStringMap> strings_;
+ bool slowAssertions;
+ uint32_t enabled_;
+ void (*eventMarker_)(const char*, const char*);
+
+ public:
+ explicit GeckoProfilerRuntime(JSRuntime* rt);
+
+ /* management of whether instrumentation is on or off */
+ bool enabled() { return enabled_; }
+ void enable(bool enabled);
+ void enableSlowAssertions(bool enabled) { slowAssertions = enabled; }
+ bool slowAssertionsEnabled() { return slowAssertions; }
+
+ void setEventMarker(void (*fn)(const char*, const char*));
+
+ static JS::UniqueChars allocProfileString(JSContext* cx, BaseScript* script);
+ const char* profileString(JSContext* cx, BaseScript* script);
+
+ void onScriptFinalized(BaseScript* script);
+
+ void markEvent(const char* event, const char* details);
+
+ ProfileStringMap& strings() { return strings_.ref(); }
+
+ /* meant to be used for testing, not recommended to call in normal code */
+ size_t stringsCount();
+ void stringsReset();
+
+ uint32_t* addressOfEnabled() { return &enabled_; }
+
+ void fixupStringsMapAfterMovingGC();
+#ifdef JSGC_HASH_TABLE_CHECKS
+ void checkStringsMapAfterMovingGC();
+#endif
+};
+
+inline size_t GeckoProfilerRuntime::stringsCount() { return strings().count(); }
+
+inline void GeckoProfilerRuntime::stringsReset() { strings().clear(); }
+
+/*
+ * This class is used in RunScript() to push the marker onto the sampling stack
+ * that we're about to enter JS function calls. This is the only time in which a
+ * valid stack pointer is pushed to the sampling stack.
+ */
+class MOZ_RAII GeckoProfilerEntryMarker {
+ public:
+ explicit MOZ_ALWAYS_INLINE GeckoProfilerEntryMarker(JSContext* cx,
+ JSScript* script);
+ MOZ_ALWAYS_INLINE ~GeckoProfilerEntryMarker();
+
+ private:
+ GeckoProfilerThread* profiler_;
+#ifdef DEBUG
+ uint32_t spBefore_;
+#endif
+};
+
+/*
+ * RAII class to automatically add Gecko Profiler profiling stack frames.
+ * It retrieves the ProfilingStack from the JSContext and does nothing if the
+ * profiler is inactive.
+ *
+ * NB: The `label` string must be statically allocated.
+ */
+class MOZ_RAII AutoGeckoProfilerEntry {
+ public:
+ explicit MOZ_ALWAYS_INLINE AutoGeckoProfilerEntry(
+ JSContext* cx, const char* label, const char* dynamicString,
+ JS::ProfilingCategoryPair categoryPair = JS::ProfilingCategoryPair::JS,
+ uint32_t flags = 0);
+ explicit MOZ_ALWAYS_INLINE AutoGeckoProfilerEntry(
+ JSContext* cx, const char* label,
+ JS::ProfilingCategoryPair categoryPair = JS::ProfilingCategoryPair::JS,
+ uint32_t flags = 0);
+ MOZ_ALWAYS_INLINE ~AutoGeckoProfilerEntry();
+
+ private:
+ ProfilingStack* profilingStack_;
+#ifdef DEBUG
+ GeckoProfilerThread* profiler_;
+ uint32_t spBefore_;
+#endif
+};
+
+/*
+ * Use this RAII class to add Gecko Profiler label frames for methods of the
+ * JavaScript builtin API.
+ * These frames will be exposed to JavaScript developers (ie they won't be
+ * filtered out when using the "JavaScript" filtering option in the Firefox
+ * Profiler UI).
+ * Technical note: the label and dynamicString values will be joined with a dot
+ * separator if dynamicString is present.
+ */
+class MOZ_RAII AutoJSMethodProfilerEntry : public AutoGeckoProfilerEntry {
+ public:
+ explicit MOZ_ALWAYS_INLINE AutoJSMethodProfilerEntry(
+ JSContext* cx, const char* label, const char* dynamicString = nullptr);
+};
+
+/*
+ * Use this RAII class to add Gecko Profiler label frames for constructors of
+ * the JavaScript builtin API.
+ * These frames will be exposed to JavaScript developers (ie they won't be
+ * filtered out when using the "JavaScript" filtering option in the Firefox
+ * Profiler UI).
+ * Technical note: the word "constructor" will be appended to the label (with a
+ * space separator).
+ */
+class MOZ_RAII AutoJSConstructorProfilerEntry : public AutoGeckoProfilerEntry {
+ public:
+ explicit MOZ_ALWAYS_INLINE AutoJSConstructorProfilerEntry(JSContext* cx,
+ const char* label);
+};
+
+/*
+ * This class is used in the interpreter to bound regions where the baseline JIT
+ * being entered via OSR. It marks the current top profiling stack frame as
+ * OSR-ed
+ */
+class MOZ_RAII GeckoProfilerBaselineOSRMarker {
+ public:
+ explicit GeckoProfilerBaselineOSRMarker(JSContext* cx, bool hasProfilerFrame);
+ ~GeckoProfilerBaselineOSRMarker();
+
+ private:
+ GeckoProfilerThread* profiler;
+ mozilla::DebugOnly<uint32_t> spBefore_;
+};
+
+} /* namespace js */
+
+#endif /* vm_GeckoProfiler_h */