tracing: add the v2 shared-ring chunk protocol The producer-local shared ring from RFC 0014: fixed-size chunks, many writers, one reader, and no waiting for a writer. The protocol document lands with it; the section numbers in the comments refer to that file. - One atomic uint32_t per chunk carries everything a handoff needs, so that word's modification order decides every race. 32 bits because a 64-bit atomic is not lock-free on every target we support. - Five states: FreeForWrap, Acquired, Complete, RewriteRequested, Acknowledged. The free word holds the 29-bit wrap count of its traversal, so "vacant" and "vacant for your reservation" are one CAS. No tombstones, and a writer that slept cannot publish behind the reader. - Only the reader writes a free word, always deriving the wrap from the position it is resolving. - Payload grows up from the header, fixed-width size entries grow down from the end. Nothing is backfilled, so the reader takes a committed prefix and leaves the writer its suffix. - SharedRingBuffer owns every state-word transition; RingWriter and ChunkReader sit on top. The reader validates its own copy of a chunk, never the mapping. - Backpressure is writer-waits-on-read_pos, Linux and Android only. A call that burned a reservation returns kNoChunkAvailable instead of waiting: those holes are the reader's to resolve and nothing has asked it to run yet. Not wired up: no SDK writer, no bridge, no muxer, no flag. Tests: the ABI words and worked chunk from the document, geometry and wrap arithmetic across the cursor rollover, the three two-party races on two threads through a step sequencer, scraping and relocation, malformed and unknown input, the futex paths and their errno policy, the control block layout, a forged write_pos, and MPSC stress that checks exactly-once and per-writer order rather than throughput. Bug: 536851377
Perfetto is an open-source suite of SDKs, daemons and tools which use tracing to help developers understand the behaviour of complex systems and root-cause functional and performance issues on client and embedded systems.
It is a production-grade tool that is the default tracing system for the Android operating system and the Chromium browser.
Perfetto is not a single tool, but a collection of components that work together:
Perfetto was designed to be a versatile and powerful tracing system for a wide range of use cases.
ftrace, allowing you to visualize scheduling, syscalls, interrupts, and custom kernel tracepoints on a timeline.chrome://tracing. Use it to debug and root-cause issues in the browser, V8, and Blink.We‘ve designed our documentation to guide you to the right information as quickly as possible, whether you’re a newcomer to performance analysis or an experienced developer.
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