1//===- llvm/Support/TimeProfiler.h - Hierarchical Time Profiler -*- C++ -*-===//
2//
3// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
4// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
6//
7//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
8//
9// This provides lightweight and dependency-free machinery to trace execution
10// time around arbitrary code. Two API flavors are available.
11//
12// The primary API uses a RAII object to trigger tracing:
13//
14// \code
15// {
16// TimeTraceScope scope("my_event_name");
17// ...my code...
18// }
19// \endcode
20//
21// If the code to be profiled does not have a natural lexical scope then
22// it is also possible to start and end events with respect to an implicit
23// per-thread stack of profiling entries:
24//
25// \code
26// timeTraceProfilerBegin("my_event_name");
27// ...my code...
28// timeTraceProfilerEnd(); // must be called on all control flow paths
29// \endcode
30//
31// Time profiling entries can be given an arbitrary name and, optionally,
32// an arbitrary 'detail' string. The resulting trace will include 'Total'
33// entries summing the time spent for each name. Thus, it's best to choose
34// names to be fairly generic, and rely on the detail field to capture
35// everything else of interest.
36//
37// To avoid lifetime issues name and detail strings are copied into the event
38// entries at their time of creation. Care should be taken to make string
39// construction cheap to prevent 'Heisenperf' effects. In particular, the
40// 'detail' argument may be a string-returning closure:
41//
42// \code
43// int n;
44// {
45// TimeTraceScope scope("my_event_name",
46// [n]() { return (Twine("x=") + Twine(n)).str(); });
47// ...my code...
48// }
49// \endcode
50// The closure will not be called if tracing is disabled. Otherwise, the
51// resulting string will be directly moved into the entry.
52//
53// The main process should begin with a timeTraceProfilerInitialize, and
54// finish with timeTraceProfileWrite and timeTraceProfilerCleanup calls.
55// Each new thread should begin with a timeTraceProfilerInitialize, and
56// finish with a timeTraceProfilerFinishThread call.
57//
58// Timestamps come from std::chrono::stable_clock. Note that threads need
59// not see the same time from that clock, and the resolution may not be
60// the best available.
61//
62// Currently, there are a number of compatible viewers:
63// - chrome://tracing is the original chromium trace viewer.
64// - http://ui.perfetto.dev is the replacement for the above, under active
65// development by Google as part of the 'Perfetto' project.
66// - https://www.speedscope.app/ has also been reported as an option.
67//
68// Future work:
69// - Support akin to LLVM_DEBUG for runtime enable/disable of named tracing
70// families for non-debug builds which wish to support optional tracing.
71// - Evaluate the detail closures at profile write time to avoid
72// stringification costs interfering with tracing.
73//
74//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
75
76#ifndef LLVM_SUPPORT_TIMEPROFILER_H
77#define LLVM_SUPPORT_TIMEPROFILER_H
78
79#include "llvm/ADT/STLFunctionalExtras.h"
80#include "llvm/Support/Error.h"
81
82namespace llvm {
83
84class raw_pwrite_stream;
85
86struct TimeTraceProfiler;
87TimeTraceProfiler *getTimeTraceProfilerInstance();
88
89/// Initialize the time trace profiler.
90/// This sets up the global \p TimeTraceProfilerInstance
91/// variable to be the profiler instance.
92void timeTraceProfilerInitialize(unsigned TimeTraceGranularity,
93 StringRef ProcName);
94
95/// Cleanup the time trace profiler, if it was initialized.
96void timeTraceProfilerCleanup();
97
98/// Finish a time trace profiler running on a worker thread.
99void timeTraceProfilerFinishThread();
100
101/// Is the time trace profiler enabled, i.e. initialized?
102inline bool timeTraceProfilerEnabled() {
103 return getTimeTraceProfilerInstance() != nullptr;
104}
105
106/// Write profiling data to output stream.
107/// Data produced is JSON, in Chrome "Trace Event" format, see
108/// https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CvAClvFfyA5R-PhYUmn5OOQtYMH4h6I0nSsKchNAySU/preview
109void timeTraceProfilerWrite(raw_pwrite_stream &OS);
110
111/// Write profiling data to a file.
112/// The function will write to \p PreferredFileName if provided, if not
113/// then will write to \p FallbackFileName appending .time-trace.
114/// Returns a StringError indicating a failure if the function is
115/// unable to open the file for writing.
116Error timeTraceProfilerWrite(StringRef PreferredFileName,
117 StringRef FallbackFileName);
118
119/// Manually begin a time section, with the given \p Name and \p Detail.
120/// Profiler copies the string data, so the pointers can be given into
121/// temporaries. Time sections can be hierarchical; every Begin must have a
122/// matching End pair but they can nest.
123void timeTraceProfilerBegin(StringRef Name, StringRef Detail);
124void timeTraceProfilerBegin(StringRef Name,
125 llvm::function_ref<std::string()> Detail);
126
127/// Manually end the last time section.
128void timeTraceProfilerEnd();
129
130/// The TimeTraceScope is a helper class to call the begin and end functions
131/// of the time trace profiler. When the object is constructed, it begins
132/// the section; and when it is destroyed, it stops it. If the time profiler
133/// is not initialized, the overhead is a single branch.
134struct TimeTraceScope {
135
136 TimeTraceScope() = delete;
137 TimeTraceScope(const TimeTraceScope &) = delete;
138 TimeTraceScope &operator=(const TimeTraceScope &) = delete;
139 TimeTraceScope(TimeTraceScope &&) = delete;
140 TimeTraceScope &operator=(TimeTraceScope &&) = delete;
141
142 TimeTraceScope(StringRef Name) {
143 if (getTimeTraceProfilerInstance() != nullptr)
144 timeTraceProfilerBegin(Name, Detail: StringRef(""));
145 }
146 TimeTraceScope(StringRef Name, StringRef Detail) {
147 if (getTimeTraceProfilerInstance() != nullptr)
148 timeTraceProfilerBegin(Name, Detail);
149 }
150 TimeTraceScope(StringRef Name, llvm::function_ref<std::string()> Detail) {
151 if (getTimeTraceProfilerInstance() != nullptr)
152 timeTraceProfilerBegin(Name, Detail);
153 }
154 ~TimeTraceScope() {
155 if (getTimeTraceProfilerInstance() != nullptr)
156 timeTraceProfilerEnd();
157 }
158};
159
160} // end namespace llvm
161
162#endif
163

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