This adds a new option --clamp-contents to dmd.py. This replaces every value
contained in the memory contents in the log with a pointer to the start of a live
block, if the value is a pointer into the middle of that block. All other values
are replaced with 0. This conservative analysis makes it easier to determine
which blocks point to other blocks.
This implements a new "scan" mode for DMD that records the address
and contents of every live unsampled block in the DMD log. This
enables the low-level analysis of references from one block to
another, which can help leak investigations.
They are kept around for the sake of the standalone glue, which is used
for e.g. webapprt, which doesn't have direct access to jemalloc, and thus
still needs a wrapper to go through the xpcom function list and get to
jemalloc from there.
The new "num" property lets identical blocks be aggregated in the output. This
patch only uses the "num" property for dead blocks, because that's where the
greatest potential benefit lies, but it could be used for live blocks as well.
On one test case (a complex PDF file) running with --mode=cumulative
--sample-below=1 this patch had the following effects.
- Change in running speed was negligible.
- Compressed output file size dropped from 8.8 to 5.0 MB.
- Compressed output file size dropped from 297 to 50 MB.
- dmd.py runtime (without stack fixing) dropped from 30 to 8 seconds.
Now that defining $DMD is no longer necessary to run DMD, this patch does the
following.
- Removes all the places where we set DMD=1 (test harnesses, etc.)
- Still handles DMD=1, for backwards compatibility.
- Prints "$DMD is undefined" at DMD start-up if appropriate.
- Writes a |null| value for |dmdEnvVar| in the JSON if $DMD is undefined. Bumps
the DMD output version number accordingly.
- Changes a bunch of the test files accordingly, including changing the mode of
script-ignore-alloc-fns.json in order to test a case where $DMD is undefined.
This patch moves profiling mode selection from post-processing (in dmd.py) to
DMD start-up. This will make it easier to add new kinds of profiling, such as
cumulative heap profiling.
Specifically:
- There's a new --mode option. |LiveWithReports| is the default, as it is
currently.
- dmd.py's --ignore-reports option is gone.
- There's a new |mode| field in the JSON output.
- Reports-related operations are now no-ops if DMD isn't in LiveWithReports
mode.
- Diffs are only allowed for output files that have the same mode.
- A new function ResetEverything() replaces the SetSampleBelowSize() and
ClearBlocks(), which were used by the test to change DMD options.
- The tests in SmokeDMD.cpp are split up so they can be run multiple times, in
different modes. The exact combinations of tests and modes has been changed a
bit.
