In preparation for dropping the GLib dependency from libsysprof-capture,
move the autocleanup definitions up to libsysprof. Add a new header for
them.
This is slightly awkward in the tools, which depend on
libsysprof-capture but not libsysprof. Rather than make them depend on
libsysprof (which might be disabled at configure time), include the
`sysprof-capture-autocleanups.h` file between source directories.
`SYSPROF_COMPILATION` needs to be defined for this to work.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #40
This is useful to find allocations free'd right after they were created.
A temporary allocation is currently defined as a free() right after an
allocation of that same memory address. From a quick glance, that appears
to be similar to what I've been seeing in heaptrack all these years.
In the long term, I'd expect we can do something more useful such as
"freed from similar stack trace" since things like g_strdup_printf()
would obviously break important temporary allocations.
We might get this information from multiple sources (such as Linux's perf
or the proc data source). So only add this information once to avoid
having additional data we don't care about.
This also helps ensure we get a proper tree for the callgraph without
splitting things between updated cmdline information.
This brings over some of the techniques from the old memprof design.
Sysprof and memprof shared a lot of code, so it is pretty natural to
bring back the same callgraph view based on memory allocations.
This reuses the StackStash just like it did in memprof. While it
would be nice to reuse some existing tools out there, the fit of
memprof with sysprof is so naturally aligned, it's not really a
big deal to bring back the LD_PRELOAD. The value really comes
from seeing all this stuff together instead of multiple apps.
There are plenty of things we can implement on top of this that
we are not doing yet such as temporary allocations, cross-thread
frees, graphing the heap, and graphing differences between the
heap at to points in time. I'd like all of these things, given
enough time to make them useful.
This is still a bit slow though due to the global lock we take
to access the writer. To improve the speed here we need to get
rid of that lock and head towards a design that allows a thread
to request a new writer from Sysprof and save it in TLS (to be
destroyed when the thread exits).
