// Copyright 2018 Google LLC // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. package profiler import ( "bytes" "context" "fmt" "runtime" "time" "github.com/google/pprof/profile" ) // heapProfile collects an in-use heap profile. The heap profiles returned by // the runtime also include the heap allocation metrics. We zero those out // since all allocations since program start are recorded, so these make the // profile large and there is a separate alloc profile type which shows // allocations from a set duration. func heapProfile(prof *bytes.Buffer) error { p, err := goHeapProfile() if err != nil { return err } for _, s := range p.Sample { s.Value[0] = 0 s.Value[1] = 0 } // Merge profile with itself to remove samples with only zero values and // reduce profile size. p, err = profile.Merge([]*profile.Profile{p}) if err != nil { return err } return p.Write(prof) } // deltaAllocProfile collects an allocation profile by gathering a heap profile, // sleeping for the specified duration, gathering another heap profile and // subtracting the initial one from that. It then drops the in-use metrics from // the profile. If requested, it forces the GC before taking each of the heap // profiles, which improves the profile accuracy (see docs in // https://golang.org/src/runtime/mprof.go on why). func deltaAllocProfile(ctx context.Context, duration time.Duration, forceGC bool, prof *bytes.Buffer) error { p1, err := allocProfile(forceGC) if err != nil { return err } sleep(ctx, duration) p2, err := allocProfile(forceGC) if err != nil { return err } p1.Scale(-1) p, err := profile.Merge([]*profile.Profile{p1, p2}) if err != nil { return err } p.DurationNanos = duration.Nanoseconds() return p.Write(prof) } // allocProfile collects a single heap profile, and removes all metrics but // allocation metrics. func allocProfile(forceGC bool) (*profile.Profile, error) { if forceGC { runtime.GC() } p, err := goHeapProfile() if err != nil { return nil, err } p.SampleType = p.SampleType[:2] for _, s := range p.Sample { s.Value = s.Value[:2] } return p, nil } // goHeapProfile collects a heap profile. It returns an error if the metrics // in the collected heap profile do not match the expected metrics. func goHeapProfile() (*profile.Profile, error) { var prof bytes.Buffer if err := writeHeapProfile(&prof); err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to write heap profile: %v", err) } p, err := profile.Parse(&prof) if err != nil { return nil, err } if got := len(p.SampleType); got != 4 { return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid heap profile: got %d sample types, want 4", got) } for i, want := range []string{"alloc_objects", "alloc_space", "inuse_objects", "inuse_space"} { if got := p.SampleType[i].Type; got != want { return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid heap profile: got %q sample type at index %d, want %q", got, i, want) } } return p, nil }