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3 -- GNU ADA RUN-TIME LIBRARY (GNARL) COMPONENTS --
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33 with System
.Storage_Elements
;
34 with System
.Address_To_Access_Conversions
;
37 package System
.Stack_Usage
is
40 package SSE
renames System
.Storage_Elements
;
42 subtype Stack_Address
is SSE
.Integer_Address
;
43 -- Address on the stack
45 function To_Stack_Address
46 (Value
: System
.Address
) return Stack_Address
47 renames System
.Storage_Elements
.To_Integer
;
49 Task_Name_Length
: constant := 32;
50 -- The maximum length of task name displayed.
51 -- ??? Consider merging this variable with Max_Task_Image_Length.
53 type Task_Result
is record
54 Task_Name
: String (1 .. Task_Name_Length
);
57 -- Amount of stack used. The value is calculated on the basis of the
58 -- mechanism used by GNAT to allocate it, and it is NOT a precise value.
61 -- Possible variation in the amount of used stack. The real stack usage
62 -- may vary in the range Value +/- Variation
67 type Result_Array_Type
is array (Positive range <>) of Task_Result
;
69 type Stack_Analyzer
is private;
70 -- Type of the stack analyzer tool. It is used to fill a portion of the
71 -- stack with Pattern, and to compute the stack used after some execution.
75 -- A typical use of the package is something like:
77 -- A : Stack_Analyzer;
80 -- pragma Storage_Size (A_Storage_Size);
85 -- Bottom_Of_Stack : aliased Integer;
86 -- -- Bottom_Of_Stack'Address will be used as an approximation of
87 -- -- the bottom of stack. A good practise is to avoid allocating
88 -- -- other local variables on this stack, as it would degrade
89 -- -- the quality of this approximation.
92 -- Initialize_Analyzer (A,
94 -- A_Storage_Size - A_Guard,
96 -- To_Stack_Address (Bottom_Of_Stack'Address));
99 -- Compute_Result (A);
100 -- Report_Result (A);
105 -- We are instrumenting the code to measure the stack used by the user
106 -- code. This method has a number of systematic errors, but several methods
107 -- can be used to evaluate or reduce those errors. Here are those errors
108 -- and the strategy that we use to deal with them:
112 -- Description: The procedure used to fill the stack with a given
113 -- pattern will itself have a stack frame. The value of the stack
114 -- pointer in this procedure is, therefore, different from the value
115 -- before the call to the instrumentation procedure.
117 -- Strategy: The user of this package should measure the bottom of stack
118 -- before the call to Fill_Stack and pass it in parameter.
120 -- Instrumentation threshold at writing:
122 -- Description: The procedure used to fill the stack with a given
123 -- pattern will itself have a stack frame. Therefore, it will
124 -- fill the stack after this stack frame. This part of the stack will
125 -- appear as used in the final measure.
127 -- Strategy: As the user passes the value of the bottom of stack to
128 -- the instrumentation to deal with the bottom offset error, and as
129 -- the instrumentation procedure knows where the pattern filling start
130 -- on the stack, the difference between the two values is the minimum
131 -- stack usage that the method can measure. If, when the results are
132 -- computed, the pattern zone has been left untouched, we conclude
133 -- that the stack usage is inferior to this minimum stack usage.
135 -- Instrumentation threshold at reading:
137 -- Description: The procedure used to read the stack at the end of the
138 -- execution clobbers the stack by allocating its stack frame. If this
139 -- stack frame is bigger than the total stack used by the user code at
140 -- this point, it will increase the measured stack size.
142 -- Strategy: We could augment this stack frame and see if it changes the
143 -- measure. However, this error should be negligible.
145 -- Pattern zone overflow:
147 -- Description: The stack grows outer than the topmost bound of the
148 -- pattern zone. In that case, the topmost region modified in the
149 -- pattern is not the maximum value of the stack pointer during the
152 -- Strategy: At the end of the execution, the difference between the
153 -- topmost memory region modified in the pattern zone and the
154 -- topmost bound of the pattern zone can be understood as the
155 -- biggest allocation that the method could have detect, provided
156 -- that there is no "Untouched allocated zone" error and no "Pattern
157 -- usage in user code" error. If no object in the user code is likely
158 -- to have this size, this is not likely to happen.
160 -- Pattern usage in user code:
162 -- Description: The pattern can be found in the object of the user code.
163 -- Therefore, the address space where this object has been allocated
164 -- will appear as untouched.
166 -- Strategy: Choose a pattern that is uncommon. 16#0000_0000# is the
167 -- worst choice; 16#DEAD_BEEF# can be a good one. A good choice is an
168 -- address which is not a multiple of 2, and which is not in the
169 -- target address space. You can also change the pattern to see if it
170 -- changes the measure. Note that this error *very* rarely influence
171 -- the measure of the total stack usage: to have some influence, the
172 -- pattern has to be used in the object that has been allocated on the
173 -- topmost address of the used stack.
177 -- Description: The pattern zone does not fit on the stack. This may
178 -- lead to an erroneous execution.
180 -- Strategy: Specify a storage size that is bigger than the size of the
181 -- pattern. 2 times bigger should be enough.
183 -- Augmentation of the user stack frames:
185 -- Description: The use of instrumentation object or procedure may
186 -- augment the stack frame of the caller.
188 -- Strategy: Do *not* inline the instrumentation procedures. Do *not*
189 -- allocate the Stack_Analyzer object on the stack.
191 -- Untouched allocated zone:
193 -- Description: The user code may allocate objects that it will never
194 -- touch. In that case, the pattern will not be changed.
196 -- Strategy: There are no way to detect this error. Fortunately, this
197 -- error is really rare, and it is most probably a bug in the user
198 -- code, e.g. some uninitialized variable. It is (most of the time)
199 -- harmless: it influences the measure only if the untouched allocated
200 -- zone happens to be located at the topmost value of the stack
201 -- pointer for the whole execution.
203 procedure Initialize
(Buffer_Size
: Natural);
204 pragma Export
(C
, Initialize
, "__gnat_stack_usage_initialize");
205 -- Initializes the size of the buffer that stores the results. Only the
206 -- first Buffer_Size results are stored. Any results that do not fit in
207 -- this buffer will be displayed on the fly.
209 procedure Fill_Stack
(Analyzer
: in out Stack_Analyzer
);
210 -- Fill an area of the stack with the pattern Analyzer.Pattern. The size
211 -- of this area is Analyzer.Size. After the call to this procedure,
212 -- the memory will look like that:
215 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------->
216 -- |<---------------------->|<----------------------------------->|
217 -- | Stack frame | Memory filled with Analyzer.Pattern |
218 -- | of Fill_Stack | |
219 -- | (deallocated at | |
220 -- | the end of the call) | |
222 -- Analyzer.Bottom_Of_Stack | Analyzer.Top_Pattern_Mark
224 -- Analyzer.Bottom_Pattern_Mark
227 procedure Initialize_Analyzer
228 (Analyzer
: in out Stack_Analyzer
;
230 My_Stack_Size
: Natural;
231 Max_Pattern_Size
: Natural;
232 Bottom
: Stack_Address
;
234 Pattern
: Interfaces
.Unsigned_32
:= 16#DEAD_BEEF#
);
235 -- Should be called before any use of a Stack_Analyzer, to initialize it.
236 -- Max_Pattern_Size is the size of the pattern zone, might be smaller than
237 -- the full stack size in order to take into account e.g. the secondary
238 -- stack and a guard against overflow. The actual size taken will be
239 -- readjusted with data already used at the time the stack is actually
242 Is_Enabled
: Boolean := False;
243 -- When this flag is true, then stack analysis is enabled
245 procedure Compute_Result
(Analyzer
: in out Stack_Analyzer
);
246 -- Read the pattern zone and deduce the stack usage. It should be called
247 -- from the same frame as Fill_Stack. If Analyzer.Probe is not null, an
248 -- array of Unsigned_32 with Analyzer.Probe elements is allocated on
249 -- Compute_Result's stack frame. Probe can be used to detect the error:
250 -- "instrumentation threshold at reading". See above. After the call
251 -- to this procedure, the memory will look like:
254 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------->
255 -- |<---------------------->|<-------------->|<--------->|<--------->|
256 -- | Stack frame | Array of | used | Memory |
257 -- | of Compute_Result | Analyzer.Probe | during | filled |
258 -- | (deallocated at | elements | the | with |
259 -- | the end of the call) | | execution | pattern |
261 -- | Bottom_Pattern_Mark | | |
263 -- |<----------------------------------------------------> |
267 procedure Report_Result
(Analyzer
: Stack_Analyzer
);
268 -- Store the results of the computation in memory, at the address
269 -- corresponding to the symbol __gnat_stack_usage_results. This is not
270 -- done inside Compute_Result in order to use as less stack as possible
273 procedure Output_Results
;
274 -- Print the results computed so far on the standard output. Should be
275 -- called when all tasks are dead.
277 pragma Export
(C
, Output_Results
, "__gnat_stack_usage_output_results");
281 package Unsigned_32_Addr
is
282 new System
.Address_To_Access_Conversions
(Interfaces
.Unsigned_32
);
284 subtype Pattern_Type
is Interfaces
.Unsigned_32
;
285 Bytes_Per_Pattern
: constant := Pattern_Type
'Object_Size / Storage_Unit
;
287 type Stack_Analyzer
is record
288 Task_Name
: String (1 .. Task_Name_Length
);
291 Stack_Size
: Natural;
292 -- Entire size of the analyzed stack
294 Pattern_Size
: Natural;
295 -- Size of the pattern zone
297 Pattern
: Pattern_Type
;
298 -- Pattern used to recognize untouched memory
300 Bottom_Pattern_Mark
: Stack_Address
;
301 -- Bound of the pattern area on the stack closest to the bottom
303 Top_Pattern_Mark
: Stack_Address
;
304 -- Topmost bound of the pattern area on the stack
306 Topmost_Touched_Mark
: Stack_Address
;
307 -- Topmost address of the pattern area whose value it is pointing
308 -- at has been modified during execution. If the systematic error are
309 -- compensated, it is the topmost value of the stack pointer during
312 Bottom_Of_Stack
: Stack_Address
;
313 -- Address of the bottom of the stack, as given by the caller of
314 -- Initialize_Analyzer.
316 Stack_Overlay_Address
: System
.Address
;
317 -- Address of the stack abstraction object we overlay over a
318 -- task's real stack, typically a pattern-initialized array.
320 Result_Id
: Positive;
321 -- Id of the result. If less than value given to gnatbind -u corresponds
322 -- to the location in the result array of result for the current task.
325 Environment_Task_Analyzer
: Stack_Analyzer
;
327 Compute_Environment_Task
: Boolean;
329 type Result_Array_Ptr
is access all Result_Array_Type
;
331 Result_Array
: Result_Array_Ptr
;
332 pragma Export
(C
, Result_Array
, "__gnat_stack_usage_results");
333 -- Exported in order to have an easy accessible symbol in when debugging
335 Next_Id
: Positive := 1;
336 -- Id of the next stack analyzer
339 (SP_Low
: Stack_Address
;
340 SP_High
: Stack_Address
) return Natural;
341 pragma Inline
(Stack_Size
);
342 -- Return the size of a portion of stack delimited by SP_High and SP_Low
343 -- (), i.e. the difference between SP_High and SP_Low. The storage element
344 -- pointed by SP_Low is not included in the size. Inlined to reduce the
345 -- size of the stack used by the instrumentation code.
347 end System
.Stack_Usage
;