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authorGraham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com>2019-04-12 12:31:33 -0400
committerGraham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com>2019-08-14 16:09:35 -0400
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treeee8d8dcbe6215e57113d481767a270ddfaeaf20a /doc/manual/command-ref
parent1eeaf99cf89630f84b4a1b6882a0f98019725d9e (diff)
Track function start and ends for flame graphs
With this patch, and this file I called `log.py`: #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell #!nix-shell -i python3 -p python3 --pure import sys from pprint import pprint stack = [] timestack = [] for line in open(sys.argv[1]): components = line.strip().split(" ", 2) if components[0] != "function-trace": continue direction = components[1] components = components[2].rsplit(" ", 2) loc = components[0] _at = components[1] time = int(components[2]) if direction == "entered": stack.append(loc) timestack.append(time) elif direction == "exited": dur = time - timestack.pop() vst = ";".join(stack) print(f"{vst} {dur}") stack.pop() and: nix-instantiate --trace-function-calls -vvvv ../nixpkgs/pkgs/top-level/release.nix -A unstable > log.matthewbauer 2>&1 ./log.py ./log.matthewbauer > log.matthewbauer.folded flamegraph.pl --title matthewbauer-post-pr log.matthewbauer.folded > log.matthewbauer.folded.svg I can make flame graphs like: http://gsc.io/log.matthewbauer.folded.svg --- Includes test cases around function call failures and tryEval. Uses RAII so the finish is always called at the end of the function.
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+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
@@ -973,6 +973,34 @@ requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ];
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry xml:id="conf-trace-function-calls"><term><literal>trace-function-calls</literal></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+
+ <para>Default: <literal>false</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, the Nix evaluator will
+ trace every function call. Nix will print a log message at the
+ "vomit" level for every function entrance and function exit.</para>
+
+ <informalexample><screen>
+function-trace entered undefined position at 1565795816999559622
+function-trace exited undefined position at 1565795816999581277
+function-trace entered /nix/store/.../example.nix:226:41 at 1565795253249935150
+function-trace exited /nix/store/.../example.nix:226:41 at 1565795253249941684
+</screen></informalexample>
+
+ <para>The <literal>undefined position</literal> means the function
+ call is a builtin.</para>
+
+ <para>Use the <literal>contrib/stack-collapse.py</literal> script
+ distributed with the Nix source code to convert the trace logs
+ in to a format suitable for <command>flamegraph.pl</command>.</para>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry xml:id="conf-trusted-public-keys"><term><literal>trusted-public-keys</literal></term>
<listitem><para>A whitespace-separated list of public keys. When