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authorsiggi@chromium.org <siggi@chromium.org@0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98>2012-03-01 01:01:05 +0000
committersiggi@chromium.org <siggi@chromium.org@0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98>2012-03-01 01:01:05 +0000
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Support the Syzygy instrumenting profiler.
This change depends on a new API in V8 to support return-address rewriting profilers, landed at http://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=10845. BUG=None TEST=None Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/9477002 git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@124319 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98
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diff --git a/base/debug/profiler.h b/base/debug/profiler.h
index 69795a5..d880324 100644
--- a/base/debug/profiler.h
+++ b/base/debug/profiler.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <string>
#include "base/base_export.h"
+#include "base/basictypes.h"
// The Profiler functions allow usage of the underlying sampling based
// profiler. If the application has not been built with the necessary
@@ -34,6 +35,33 @@ BASE_EXPORT bool BeingProfiled();
// Reset profiling after a fork, which disables timers.
BASE_EXPORT void RestartProfilingAfterFork();
+// Returns true iff this executable is instrumented with the Syzygy profiler.
+BASE_EXPORT bool IsBinaryInstrumented();
+
+// There's a class of profilers that use "return address swizzling" to get a
+// hook on function exits. This class of profilers uses some form of entry hook,
+// like e.g. binary instrumentation, or a compiler flag, that calls a hook each
+// time a function is invoked. The hook then switches the return address on the
+// stack for the address of an exit hook function, and pushes the original
+// return address to a shadow stack of some type. When in due course the CPU
+// executes a return to the exit hook, the exit hook will do whatever work it
+// does on function exit, then arrange to return to the original return address.
+// This class of profiler does not play well with programs that look at the
+// return address, as does e.g. V8. V8 uses the return address to certain
+// runtime functions to find the JIT code that called it, and from there finds
+// the V8 data structures associated to the JS function involved.
+// A return address resolution function is used to fix this. It allows such
+// programs to resolve a location on stack where a return address originally
+// resided, to the shadow stack location where the profiler stashed it.
+typedef uintptr_t (*ReturnAddressLocationResolver)(
+ uintptr_t return_addr_location);
+
+// If this binary is instrumented and the instrumentation supplies a return
+// address resolution function, finds and returns the address resolution
+// function. Otherwise returns NULL.
+BASE_EXPORT ReturnAddressLocationResolver
+ GetProfilerReturnAddrResolutionFunc();
+
} // namespace debug
} // namespace base