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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt index 2afa28bb5aa..de5fc250595 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt @@ -148,20 +148,18 @@ filename collisions). == Trace2 API -All public Trace2 functions and macros are defined in `trace2.h` and -`trace2.c`. All public symbols are prefixed with `trace2_`. +The Trace2 public API is defined and documented in `trace2.h`; refer to it for +more information. All public functions and macros are prefixed +with `trace2_` and are implemented in `trace2.c`. There are no public Trace2 data structures. The Trace2 code also defines a set of private functions and data types in the `trace2/` directory. These symbols are prefixed with `tr2_` -and should only be used by functions in `trace2.c`. +and should only be used by functions in `trace2.c` (or other private +source files in `trace2/`). -== Conventions for Public Functions and Macros - -The functions defined by the Trace2 API are declared and documented -in `trace2.h`. It defines the API functions and wrapper macros for -Trace2. +=== Conventions for Public Functions and Macros Some functions have a `_fl()` suffix to indicate that they take `file` and `line-number` arguments. @@ -172,52 +170,7 @@ take a `va_list` argument. Some functions have a `_printf_fl()` suffix to indicate that they also take a `printf()` style format with a variable number of arguments. -There are CPP wrapper macros and `#ifdef`s to hide most of these details. -See `trace2.h` for more details. The following discussion will only -describe the simplified forms. - -== Public API - -All Trace2 API functions send a message to all of the active -Trace2 Targets. This section describes the set of available -messages. - -It helps to divide these functions into groups for discussion -purposes. - -=== Basic Command Messages - -These are concerned with the lifetime of the overall git process. -e.g: `void trace2_initialize_clock()`, `void trace2_initialize()`, -`int trace2_is_enabled()`, `void trace2_cmd_start(int argc, const char **argv)`. - -=== Command Detail Messages - -These are concerned with describing the specific Git command -after the command line, config, and environment are inspected. -e.g: `void trace2_cmd_name(const char *name)`, -`void trace2_cmd_mode(const char *mode)`. - -=== Child Process Messages - -These are concerned with the various spawned child processes, -including shell scripts, git commands, editors, pagers, and hooks. - -e.g: `void trace2_child_start(struct child_process *cmd)`. - -=== Git Thread Messages - -These messages are concerned with Git thread usage. - -e.g: `void trace2_thread_start(const char *thread_name)`. - -=== Region and Data Messages - -These are concerned with recording performance data -over regions or spans of code. e.g: -`void trace2_region_enter(const char *category, const char *label, const struct repository *repo)`. - -Refer to trace2.h for details about all trace2 functions. +CPP wrapper macros are defined to hide most of these details. == Trace2 Target Formats @@ -685,8 +638,8 @@ The "exec_id" field is a command-unique id and is only useful if the `"thread_start"`:: This event is generated when a thread is started. It is - generated from *within* the new thread's thread-proc (for TLS - reasons). + generated from *within* the new thread's thread-proc (because + it needs to access data in the thread's thread-local storage). + ------------ { @@ -698,7 +651,7 @@ The "exec_id" field is a command-unique id and is only useful if the `"thread_exit"`:: This event is generated when a thread exits. It is generated - from *within* the thread's thread-proc (for TLS reasons). + from *within* the thread's thread-proc. + ------------ { @@ -816,6 +769,73 @@ The "value" field may be an integer or a string. } ------------ +`"th_timer"`:: + This event logs the amount of time that a stopwatch timer was + running in the thread. This event is generated when a thread + exits for timers that requested per-thread events. ++ +------------ +{ + "event":"th_timer", + ... + "category":"my_category", + "name":"my_timer", + "intervals":5, # number of time it was started/stopped + "t_total":0.052741, # total time in seconds it was running + "t_min":0.010061, # shortest interval + "t_max":0.011648 # longest interval +} +------------ + +`"timer"`:: + This event logs the amount of time that a stopwatch timer was + running aggregated across all threads. This event is generated + when the process exits. ++ +------------ +{ + "event":"timer", + ... + "category":"my_category", + "name":"my_timer", + "intervals":5, # number of time it was started/stopped + "t_total":0.052741, # total time in seconds it was running + "t_min":0.010061, # shortest interval + "t_max":0.011648 # longest interval +} +------------ + +`"th_counter"`:: + This event logs the value of a counter variable in a thread. + This event is generated when a thread exits for counters that + requested per-thread events. ++ +------------ +{ + "event":"th_counter", + ... + "category":"my_category", + "name":"my_counter", + "count":23 +} +------------ + +`"counter"`:: + This event logs the value of a counter variable across all threads. + This event is generated when the process exits. The total value + reported here is the sum across all threads. ++ +------------ +{ + "event":"counter", + ... + "category":"my_category", + "name":"my_counter", + "count":23 +} +------------ + + == Example Trace2 API Usage Here is a hypothetical usage of the Trace2 API showing the intended @@ -1206,7 +1226,7 @@ worked on 508 items at offset 2032. Thread "th04" worked on 508 items at offset 508. + This example also shows that thread names are assigned in a racy manner -as each thread starts and allocates TLS storage. +as each thread starts. Config (def param) Events:: @@ -1247,6 +1267,60 @@ d0 | main | data | r0 | 0.002126 | 0.002126 | fsy d0 | main | exit | | 0.000470 | | | code:0 d0 | main | atexit | | 0.000477 | | | code:0 ---------------- + +Stopwatch Timer Events:: + + Measure the time spent in a function call or span of code + that might be called from many places within the code + throughout the life of the process. ++ +---------------- +static void expensive_function(void) +{ + trace2_timer_start(TRACE2_TIMER_ID_TEST1); + ... + sleep_millisec(1000); // Do something expensive + ... + trace2_timer_stop(TRACE2_TIMER_ID_TEST1); +} + +static int ut_100timer(int argc, const char **argv) +{ + ... + + expensive_function(); + + // Do something else 1... + + expensive_function(); + + // Do something else 2... + + expensive_function(); + + return 0; +} +---------------- ++ +In this example, we measure the total time spent in +`expensive_function()` regardless of when it is called +in the overall flow of the program. ++ +---------------- +$ export GIT_TRACE2_PERF_BRIEF=1 +$ export GIT_TRACE2_PERF=~/log.perf +$ t/helper/test-tool trace2 100timer 3 1000 +... +$ cat ~/log.perf +d0 | main | version | | | | | ... +d0 | main | start | | 0.001453 | | | t/helper/test-tool trace2 100timer 3 1000 +d0 | main | cmd_name | | | | | trace2 (trace2) +d0 | main | exit | | 3.003667 | | | code:0 +d0 | main | timer | | | | test | name:test1 intervals:3 total:3.001686 min:1.000254 max:1.000929 +d0 | main | atexit | | 3.003796 | | | code:0 +---------------- + + == Future Work === Relationship to the Existing Trace Api (api-trace.txt) |