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3 -- GNU ADA RUN-TIME LIBRARY (GNARL) COMPONENTS --
5 -- S Y S T E M - S T A C K _ U S A G E --
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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.
64 type Result_Array_Type is array (Positive range <>) of Task_Result;
66 type Stack_Analyzer is private;
67 -- Type of the stack analyzer tool. It is used to fill a portion of the
68 -- stack with Pattern, and to compute the stack used after some execution.
70 -- Note that Fill_Stack writes data past the current top of the stack
71 -- (i.e. at addresses less than the stack pointer register, assuming the
72 -- stack grows downward). Therefore, this package is incompatible with
73 -- tools like Valgrind and DrMemory.
77 -- A typical use of the package is something like:
79 -- A : Stack_Analyzer;
82 -- pragma Storage_Size (A_Storage_Size);
87 -- Bottom_Of_Stack : aliased Integer;
88 -- -- Bottom_Of_Stack'Address will be used as an approximation of
89 -- -- the bottom of stack. A good practise is to avoid allocating
90 -- -- other local variables on this stack, as it would degrade
91 -- -- the quality of this approximation.
94 -- Initialize_Analyzer (A,
98 -- A_Storage_Size - A_Guard,
99 -- To_Stack_Address (Bottom_Of_Stack'Address));
102 -- Compute_Result (A);
103 -- Report_Result (A);
108 -- We are instrumenting the code to measure the stack used by the user
109 -- code. This method has a number of systematic errors, but several methods
110 -- can be used to evaluate or reduce those errors. Here are those errors
111 -- and the strategy that we use to deal with them:
115 -- Description: The procedure used to fill the stack with a given
116 -- pattern will itself have a stack frame. The value of the stack
117 -- pointer in this procedure is, therefore, different from the value
118 -- before the call to the instrumentation procedure.
120 -- Strategy: The user of this package should measure the bottom of stack
121 -- before the call to Fill_Stack and pass it in parameter. The impact
122 -- is very minor unless the stack used is very small, but in this case
123 -- you aren't very interested by the figure.
125 -- Instrumentation threshold at writing:
127 -- Description: The procedure used to fill the stack with a given
128 -- pattern will itself have a stack frame. Therefore, it will
129 -- fill the stack after this stack frame. This part of the stack will
130 -- appear as used in the final measure.
132 -- Strategy: As the user passes the value of the bottom of stack to
133 -- the instrumentation to deal with the bottom offset error, and as
134 -- the instrumentation procedure knows where the pattern filling start
135 -- on the stack, the difference between the two values is the minimum
136 -- stack usage that the method can measure. If, when the results are
137 -- computed, the pattern zone has been left untouched, we conclude
138 -- that the stack usage is inferior to this minimum stack usage.
140 -- Instrumentation threshold at reading:
142 -- Description: The procedure used to read the stack at the end of the
143 -- execution clobbers the stack by allocating its stack frame. If this
144 -- stack frame is bigger than the total stack used by the user code at
145 -- this point, it will increase the measured stack size.
147 -- Strategy: We could augment this stack frame and see if it changes the
148 -- measure. However, this error should be negligible.
150 -- Pattern zone overflow:
152 -- Description: The stack grows outer than the topmost bound of the
153 -- pattern zone. In that case, the topmost region modified in the
154 -- pattern is not the maximum value of the stack pointer during the
157 -- Strategy: At the end of the execution, the difference between the
158 -- topmost memory region modified in the pattern zone and the
159 -- topmost bound of the pattern zone can be understood as the
160 -- biggest allocation that the method could have detect, provided
161 -- that there is no "Untouched allocated zone" error and no "Pattern
162 -- usage in user code" error. If no object in the user code is likely
163 -- to have this size, this is not likely to happen.
165 -- Pattern usage in user code:
167 -- Description: The pattern can be found in the object of the user code.
168 -- Therefore, the address space where this object has been allocated
169 -- will appear as untouched.
171 -- Strategy: Choose a pattern that is uncommon. 16#0000_0000# is the
172 -- worst choice; 16#DEAD_BEEF# can be a good one. A good choice is an
173 -- address which is not a multiple of 2, and which is not in the
174 -- target address space. You can also change the pattern to see if it
175 -- changes the measure. Note that this error *very* rarely influence
176 -- the measure of the total stack usage: to have some influence, the
177 -- pattern has to be used in the object that has been allocated on the
178 -- topmost address of the used stack.
182 -- Description: The pattern zone does not fit on the stack. This may
183 -- lead to an erroneous execution.
185 -- Strategy: Specify a storage size that is bigger than the size of the
186 -- pattern. 2 times bigger should be enough.
188 -- Augmentation of the user stack frames:
190 -- Description: The use of instrumentation object or procedure may
191 -- augment the stack frame of the caller.
193 -- Strategy: Do *not* inline the instrumentation procedures. Do *not*
194 -- allocate the Stack_Analyzer object on the stack.
196 -- Untouched allocated zone:
198 -- Description: The user code may allocate objects that it will never
199 -- touch. In that case, the pattern will not be changed.
201 -- Strategy: There are no way to detect this error. Fortunately, this
202 -- error is really rare, and it is most probably a bug in the user
203 -- code, e.g. some uninitialized variable. It is (most of the time)
204 -- harmless: it influences the measure only if the untouched allocated
205 -- zone happens to be located at the topmost value of the stack
206 -- pointer for the whole execution.
208 procedure Initialize (Buffer_Size : Natural);
209 pragma Export (C, Initialize, "__gnat_stack_usage_initialize");
210 -- Initializes the size of the buffer that stores the results. Only the
211 -- first Buffer_Size results are stored. Any results that do not fit in
212 -- this buffer will be displayed on the fly.
214 procedure Fill_Stack (Analyzer : in out Stack_Analyzer);
215 -- Fill an area of the stack with the pattern Analyzer.Pattern. The size
216 -- of this area is Analyzer.Size. After the call to this procedure,
217 -- the memory will look like that:
220 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------->
221 -- |<--------------------->|<----------------------------------->|
222 -- | Stack frames to | Memory filled with Analyzer.Pattern |
225 -- Analyzer.Stack_Base | Analyzer.Pattern_Limit
227 -- Analyzer.Pattern_Limit +/- Analyzer.Pattern_Size
230 procedure Initialize_Analyzer
231 (Analyzer : in out Stack_Analyzer;
233 Stack_Size : Natural;
234 Stack_Base : Stack_Address;
235 Pattern_Size : Natural;
236 Pattern : Interfaces.Unsigned_32 := 16#DEAD_BEEF#);
237 -- Should be called before any use of a Stack_Analyzer, to initialize it.
238 -- Max_Pattern_Size is the size of the pattern zone, might be smaller than
239 -- the full stack size Stack_Size in order to take into account e.g. the
240 -- secondary stack and a guard against overflow. The actual size taken
241 -- will be readjusted with data already used at the time the stack is
244 Is_Enabled : Boolean := False;
245 -- When this flag is true, then stack analysis is enabled
247 procedure Compute_Result (Analyzer : in out Stack_Analyzer);
248 -- Read the pattern zone and deduce the stack usage. It should be called
249 -- from the same frame as Fill_Stack. If Analyzer.Probe is not null, an
250 -- array of Unsigned_32 with Analyzer.Probe elements is allocated on
251 -- Compute_Result's stack frame. Probe can be used to detect the error:
252 -- "instrumentation threshold at reading". See above. After the call
253 -- to this procedure, the memory will look like:
256 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------->
257 -- |<---------------------->|<-------------->|<--------->|<--------->|
258 -- | Stack frames | Array of | used | Memory |
259 -- | to Compute_Result | Analyzer.Probe | during | filled |
260 -- | | elements | the | with |
261 -- | | | execution | pattern |
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_Base : Stack_Address;
292 -- Address of the base of the stack, as given by the caller of
293 -- Initialize_Analyzer.
295 Stack_Size : Natural;
296 -- Entire size of the analyzed stack
298 Pattern_Size : Natural;
299 -- Size of the pattern zone
301 Pattern : Pattern_Type;
302 -- Pattern used to recognize untouched memory
304 Pattern_Limit : Stack_Address;
305 -- Bound of the pattern area farthest to the base
307 Topmost_Touched_Mark : Stack_Address;
308 -- Topmost address of the pattern area whose value it is pointing
309 -- at has been modified during execution. If the systematic error are
310 -- compensated, it is the topmost value of the stack pointer during
313 Pattern_Overlay_Address : System.Address;
314 -- Address of the stack abstraction object we overlay over a
315 -- task's real stack, typically a pattern-initialized array.
317 Result_Id : Positive;
318 -- Id of the result. If less than value given to gnatbind -u corresponds
319 -- to the location in the result array of result for the current task.
322 Environment_Task_Analyzer : Stack_Analyzer;
324 Compute_Environment_Task : Boolean;
326 type Result_Array_Ptr is access all Result_Array_Type;
328 Result_Array : Result_Array_Ptr;
329 pragma Export (C, Result_Array, "__gnat_stack_usage_results");
330 -- Exported in order to have an easy accessible symbol in when debugging
332 Next_Id : Positive := 1;
333 -- Id of the next stack analyzer
336 (SP_Low : Stack_Address;
337 SP_High : Stack_Address) return Natural;
338 pragma Inline (Stack_Size);
339 -- Return the size of a portion of stack delimited by SP_High and SP_Low
340 -- (), i.e. the difference between SP_High and SP_Low. The storage element
341 -- pointed by SP_Low is not included in the size. Inlined to reduce the
342 -- size of the stack used by the instrumentation code.
344 end System.Stack_Usage;