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Module Tracing_zero.Writer
Source
include Writer_intf.S
Intern a string into the trace so that it can be referred to with very low cost. Note that this does not check if the string has already been interned, see intern_string_cached
.
Note that only around 32k strings can be interned this way, so use it for things like identifiers where there won't be that many. See set_temp_string_slot
for things like string arguments with many possible values.
See the comment at the top of lib/tracing/src/trace.mli
for more info on string interning.
This interns a string while re-using a set of 100 reserved string IDs (by default, the number can be overriden at writer creation). Setting the string in a slot overwrites what was previously in that slot so any further events written in the trace see the new value. This allows arbitrarily many unique strings to be used in a trace, unlike intern_string
.
The trace format interns the 64 bit thread and process IDs into an 8-bit thread ID and we expose this to the user.
Similar to set_temp_string_slot
, interns a thread into a slot ID, overwriting any thread which may have previously been in that slot. The number of thread slots is very limited (0<=slot<255) so you may need to manage them carefully.
If a pid
is the same as the tid
, Perfetto will consider that thread a "main thread" and sort it first among the threads, contrary to its usual alphabetical sorting by thread name. So if you don't want this to happen allocate tids such that they're never the same as a pid.
Note that Perfetto doesn't require tids to be unique across different pids, but the Fuchsia Trace Format spec implies they should be. I think it's safe to assume that any tool Jane Street uses will allow per-process tids but it's still safer to make them globally unique.
Sets the name on the collapsible process section header in the UI.
Perfetto sorts these headers by pid.
Sets the name on a thread track.
Perfetto sorts threads within a process alphabetically.
Events are written with a header which specifies how large the record is and how many arguments it has, which means you need to pre-commit to how many arguments of each type you will later write for an event. This is checked and will throw an exception if you write another event or close the writer without having written the correct arguments.
type 'a event_writer =
t ->
arg_types:Arg_types.t ->
thread:Thread_id.t ->
category:String_id.t ->
name:String_id.t ->
ticks:int ->
'a
Most event writer functions take a common set of arguments including a commitment to what event arguments will be added (arg_types
), a thread the event occured on, a category
which is an arbitrary string classifying the event visible in UIs and potentially used for filtering, a name
that's the main label for the event, and a timestamp in "ticks" which defaults to nanoseconds since the start of the trace, but the format allows adjusting to other units like rdtsc clock cycles.
An event with a time but no duration.
A counters event uses its arguments to specify "counters" which may be represented by trace viewers as a chart over time. Its arguments must be numerical and there should be at least one.
The counter ID is in theory for associating events that should be plotted on the same graph but in practice Perfetto ignores it and uses the name. The Tracing.Trace
wrapper chooses an ID based on the name to match this.
Begin a duration slice which will be finished with a matching end event.
End a duration event, should be properly nested and with matching name/category
A duration event where the start and end are known up front.
Takes 3*8 bytes instead of 2*2*8 bytes for separate events, saving 8 bytes per span
Begin an async slice. async_id
disambiguates concurrent contexts.
Write an event with a time but no duration associated with an async context.
End an async slice.
Flow events connect enclosing duration events with arrows in the trace viewer.
See Tracing.Flow.t
to make it easier to write the correct flow event type.
Begins a flow, the chronologically first event in each flow must use this event.
Multiple flows with different IDs can start from one enclosing duration slice.
An intermediate step in the flow that's neither the first or last step.
Close a flow with a final step. Perfetto allows the flow_id to be re-used after.
These argument writers need to be called immediately after an event writer with matching Arg_types
counts for each type.