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UTC+7 alex...@gmail.com เขียนว่า:

> We're using the CpuProfiler in an Isolate that can have multiple threads 
> running and and taking turns in the Isolate via Unlocker. Frequently, we 
> want to profile what's happening on a thread so we do a StartProfiling for 
> a thread, let it run for a while, and then collect the results via 
> StopProfiling. Works great.
>
> However, I've noticed a difference between Windows and Linux in the 
> profiles, specifically, Windows collects samples for a thread when it's 
> inside an Unlocker bracket whereas Linux does not. So if we have a native 
> function sleep(), that unlocks the Isolate, in Windows I see a high hit 
> count for stacks that have functionName "sleep" and sourceType callback in 
> the bottom stack entry. In Linux, there are no hits where I'm inside the 
> sleep native function. For our purposes, the Windows behavior is much nicer 
> as we can easily see how much of the thread's time is being spent in sleep. 
> In Linux, there is absolutely no way of knowing because the information is 
> not captured.
>
> Unfortunately, Windows nicer (IMO) behavior comes at a cost. Specifically, 
> if indeed other threads do run in the Isolate while the profiled thread is 
> sampled when unlocked, there is a tendency for core dumps while getting the 
> stack trace. This is unsurprising because the stack trace needs to look in 
> the Isolate's heap to get things like function names and that's not really 
> a good idea when a thread doesn't have the Isolate lock.
>
> The following code samples are all from src/libsampler/sampler.cc.
>
> Under Linux the profiler protects itself in SamplerManager::DoSample 
> (called by the SIGPROF handler) with:
>
>   for (Sampler* sampler : samplers) {
>     ...
>     if (v8::Locker::IsActive() && !Locker::IsLocked(isolate)) continue;
>     sampler->SampleStack(state);
>   }
>   
> That Locker::isLocked is a bit of a misnomer and really means 
> Locker::isLockedByCurrentThread and, because our SIGPROF handler runs on 
> the profiled thread, if that tread is in an Unlocker bracket in a native 
> function, isLocked returns false and we don't collect a sample. 
>
> In Windows, the sampler does not run on the profiled thread and, instead, 
> does a SuspendThread of the profiled thread from another thread and then 
> uses GetThreadContext:
>
> void Sampler::DoSample() {
>   HANDLE profiled_thread = platform_data()->profiled_thread();
>   if (profiled_thread == nullptr) return;
>
>   const DWORD kSuspendFailed = static_cast<DWORD>(-1);
>   if (SuspendThread(profiled_thread) == kSuspendFailed) return;
>
>   // Context used for sampling the register state of the profiled thread.
>   CONTEXT context;
>   memset(&context, 0, sizeof(context));
>   context.ContextFlags = CONTEXT_FULL;
>   if (GetThreadContext(profiled_thread, &context) != 0) {
>      ...
>      SampleStack(state);
>   }
>
> There is no check if the Isolate is actually locked by the profiled thread 
> so we can get a sample for it but also, unfortunately, seg faults and the 
> like if another thread is running.
>
> So it seems that there really should be a check in Sampler::DoSample for 
> Windows to check if the Isolate is locked by the profiled thread. This 
> would require maybe adding another method to Locker like 
> isLockedByThread(ThreadId id) or something like that and then checking that 
> in Sampler::DoSample. When PlatformData is instantiated for Windows it 
> could stash the ThreadId for the current thread so it could be retrieved in 
> Sampler::DoSample. Doesn't seem all that daunting and am willing to put 
> together a PR for this if this seems reasonable and unless someone more 
> conversant with V8 internals doesn't pick it up.
>
> However, while this fix would eliminate Windows seg faults when doing 
> profiling in a multi-threaded environment, it would also make me sad 
> because now we would have no way of getting time spent unlocked in my 
> native function. To provide this functionality, it seems like it would be 
> nice to be able to create a provisional TickSample before the Isolate is 
> unlocked in a native function and use that in DoSample if the Isolate is 
> not locked by the profiled thread. Obviously, this would/should only be 
> done if the thread is being profiled.
>
> There are a lot of ways this could work but a straw man is that there 
> could be CpuProfiler methods called SaveProvisionalThreadSample and 
> ClearProvisionalThreadSample. The former, at least, would have to be called 
> while one holds the Isolate lock so one would presumably do such a call 
> right before Unlocker instantiation and then do a 
> ClearProvisionalThreadSample call right after the end of the Unlocker 
> context. Then, if DoSample decides that Isolate is not locked by the 
> sampled thread, it could look for a saved provisional sample for the thread 
> and, if available, use that for its sample. Note that a provisional 
> TickSample could be used many times as a thread might be unlocked over many 
> samples.
>
> Again, assuming no one else picks this up, happy to take a swing at a PR, 
> myself. While more complicated than the Windows fix, it doesn't seem that 
> daunting.
>
> Opinions?
>  
> Sorry if this would have been more appropriately posted on v8-dev.
>
> Thanks
>  
>

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