// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // CPU profiling. // // The signal handler for the profiling clock tick adds a new stack trace // to a log of recent traces. The log is read by a user goroutine that // turns it into formatted profile data. If the reader does not keep up // with the log, those writes will be recorded as a count of lost records. // The actual profile buffer is in profbuf.go. package runtime import ( "internal/abi" "internal/runtime/sys" "unsafe" ) const ( maxCPUProfStack = 64 // profBufWordCount is the size of the CPU profile buffer's storage for the // header and stack of each sample, measured in 64-bit words. Every sample // has a required header of two words. With a small additional header (a // word or two) and stacks at the profiler's maximum length of 64 frames, // that capacity can support 1900 samples or 19 thread-seconds at a 100 Hz // sample rate, at a cost of 1 MiB. profBufWordCount = 1 << 17 // profBufTagCount is the size of the CPU profile buffer's storage for the // goroutine tags associated with each sample. A capacity of 1<<14 means // room for 16k samples, or 160 thread-seconds at a 100 Hz sample rate. profBufTagCount = 1 << 14 ) type cpuProfile struct { lock mutex on bool // profiling is on log *profBuf // profile events written here // extra holds extra stacks accumulated in addNonGo // corresponding to profiling signals arriving on // non-Go-created threads. Those stacks are written // to log the next time a normal Go thread gets the // signal handler. // Assuming the stacks are 2 words each (we don't get // a full traceback from those threads), plus one word // size for framing, 100 Hz profiling would generate // 300 words per second. // Hopefully a normal Go thread will get the profiling // signal at least once every few seconds. extra [1000]uintptr numExtra int lostExtra uint64 // count of frames lost because extra is full lostAtomic uint64 // count of frames lost because of being in atomic64 on mips/arm; updated racily } var cpuprof cpuProfile // SetCPUProfileRate sets the CPU profiling rate to hz samples per second. // If hz <= 0, SetCPUProfileRate turns off profiling. // If the profiler is on, the rate cannot be changed without first turning it off. // // Most clients should use the [runtime/pprof] package or // the [testing] package's -test.cpuprofile flag instead of calling // SetCPUProfileRate directly. func SetCPUProfileRate(hz int) { // Clamp hz to something reasonable. if hz < 0 { hz = 0 } if hz > 1000000 { hz = 1000000 } lock(&cpuprof.lock) if hz > 0 { if cpuprof.on || cpuprof.log != nil { print("runtime: cannot set cpu profile rate until previous profile has finished.\n") unlock(&cpuprof.lock) return } cpuprof.on = true cpuprof.log = newProfBuf(1, profBufWordCount, profBufTagCount) hdr := [1]uint64{uint64(hz)} cpuprof.log.write(nil, nanotime(), hdr[:], nil) setcpuprofilerate(int32(hz)) } else if cpuprof.on { setcpuprofilerate(0) cpuprof.on = false cpuprof.addExtra() cpuprof.log.close() } unlock(&cpuprof.lock) } // add adds the stack trace to the profile. // It is called from signal handlers and other limited environments // and cannot allocate memory or acquire locks that might be // held at the time of the signal, nor can it use substantial amounts // of stack. // //go:nowritebarrierrec func (p *cpuProfile) add(tagPtr *unsafe.Pointer, stk []uintptr) { // Simple cas-lock to coordinate with setcpuprofilerate. for !prof.signalLock.CompareAndSwap(0, 1) { // TODO: Is it safe to osyield here? https://go.dev/issue/52672 osyield() } if prof.hz.Load() != 0 { // implies cpuprof.log != nil if p.numExtra > 0 || p.lostExtra > 0 || p.lostAtomic > 0 { p.addExtra() } hdr := [1]uint64{1} // Note: write "knows" that the argument is &gp.labels, // because otherwise its write barrier behavior may not // be correct. See the long comment there before // changing the argument here. cpuprof.log.write(tagPtr, nanotime(), hdr[:], stk) } prof.signalLock.Store(0) } // addNonGo adds the non-Go stack trace to the profile. // It is called from a non-Go thread, so we cannot use much stack at all, // nor do anything that needs a g or an m. // In particular, we can't call cpuprof.log.write. // Instead, we copy the stack into cpuprof.extra, // which will be drained the next time a Go thread // gets the signal handling event. // //go:nosplit //go:nowritebarrierrec func (p *cpuProfile) addNonGo(stk []uintptr) { // Simple cas-lock to coordinate with SetCPUProfileRate. // (Other calls to add or addNonGo should be blocked out // by the fact that only one SIGPROF can be handled by the // process at a time. If not, this lock will serialize those too. // The use of timer_create(2) on Linux to request process-targeted // signals may have changed this.) for !prof.signalLock.CompareAndSwap(0, 1) { // TODO: Is it safe to osyield here? https://go.dev/issue/52672 osyield() } if cpuprof.numExtra+1+len(stk) < len(cpuprof.extra) { i := cpuprof.numExtra cpuprof.extra[i] = uintptr(1 + len(stk)) copy(cpuprof.extra[i+1:], stk) cpuprof.numExtra += 1 + len(stk) } else { cpuprof.lostExtra++ } prof.signalLock.Store(0) } // addExtra adds the "extra" profiling events, // queued by addNonGo, to the profile log. // addExtra is called either from a signal handler on a Go thread // or from an ordinary goroutine; either way it can use stack // and has a g. The world may be stopped, though. func (p *cpuProfile) addExtra() { // Copy accumulated non-Go profile events. hdr := [1]uint64{1} for i := 0; i < p.numExtra; { p.log.write(nil, 0, hdr[:], p.extra[i+1:i+int(p.extra[i])]) i += int(p.extra[i]) } p.numExtra = 0 // Report any lost events. if p.lostExtra > 0 { hdr := [1]uint64{p.lostExtra} lostStk := [2]uintptr{ abi.FuncPCABIInternal(_LostExternalCode) + sys.PCQuantum, abi.FuncPCABIInternal(_ExternalCode) + sys.PCQuantum, } p.log.write(nil, 0, hdr[:], lostStk[:]) p.lostExtra = 0 } if p.lostAtomic > 0 { hdr := [1]uint64{p.lostAtomic} lostStk := [2]uintptr{ abi.FuncPCABIInternal(_LostSIGPROFDuringAtomic64) + sys.PCQuantum, abi.FuncPCABIInternal(_System) + sys.PCQuantum, } p.log.write(nil, 0, hdr[:], lostStk[:]) p.lostAtomic = 0 } } // CPUProfile panics. // It formerly provided raw access to chunks of // a pprof-format profile generated by the runtime. // The details of generating that format have changed, // so this functionality has been removed. // // Deprecated: Use the [runtime/pprof] package, // or the handlers in the [net/http/pprof] package, // or the [testing] package's -test.cpuprofile flag instead. func CPUProfile() []byte { panic("CPUProfile no longer available") } // runtime/pprof.runtime_cyclesPerSecond should be an internal detail, // but widely used packages access it using linkname. // Notable members of the hall of shame include: // - github.com/grafana/pyroscope-go/godeltaprof // - github.com/pyroscope-io/godeltaprof // // Do not remove or change the type signature. // See go.dev/issue/67401. // //go:linkname pprof_cyclesPerSecond runtime/pprof.runtime_cyclesPerSecond func pprof_cyclesPerSecond() int64 { return ticksPerSecond() } // readProfile, provided to runtime/pprof, returns the next chunk of // binary CPU profiling stack trace data, blocking until data is available. // If profiling is turned off and all the profile data accumulated while it was // on has been returned, readProfile returns eof=true. // The caller must save the returned data and tags before calling readProfile again. // The returned data contains a whole number of records, and tags contains // exactly one entry per record. // // runtime_pprof_readProfile should be an internal detail, // but widely used packages access it using linkname. // Notable members of the hall of shame include: // - github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope // // Do not remove or change the type signature. // See go.dev/issue/67401. // //go:linkname runtime_pprof_readProfile runtime/pprof.readProfile func runtime_pprof_readProfile() ([]uint64, []unsafe.Pointer, bool) { lock(&cpuprof.lock) log := cpuprof.log unlock(&cpuprof.lock) readMode := profBufBlocking if GOOS == "darwin" || GOOS == "ios" { readMode = profBufNonBlocking // For #61768; on Darwin notes are not async-signal-safe. See sigNoteSetup in os_darwin.go. } data, tags, eof := log.read(readMode) if len(data) == 0 && eof { lock(&cpuprof.lock) cpuprof.log = nil unlock(&cpuprof.lock) } return data, tags, eof }