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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+#ifndef perf_jsperf_h
+#define perf_jsperf_h
+
+#include "jstypes.h"
+
+#include "js/TypeDecls.h"
+#include "js/Utility.h"
+
+namespace JS {
+
+/*
+ * JS::PerfMeasurement is a generic way to access detailed performance
+ * measurement APIs provided by your operating system. The details of
+ * exactly how this works and what can be measured are highly
+ * system-specific, but this interface is (one hopes) implementable
+ * on top of all of them.
+ *
+ * To use this API, create a PerfMeasurement object, passing its
+ * constructor a bitmask indicating which events you are interested
+ * in. Thereafter, Start() zeroes all counters and starts timing;
+ * Stop() stops timing again; and the counters for the events you
+ * requested are available as data values after calling Stop(). The
+ * object may be reused for many measurements.
+ */
+class JS_FRIEND_API(PerfMeasurement)
+{
+ protected:
+ // Implementation-specific data, if any.
+ void* impl;
+
+ public:
+ /*
+ * Events that may be measured. Taken directly from the list of
+ * "generalized hardware performance event types" in the Linux
+ * perf_event API, plus some of the "software events".
+ */
+ enum EventMask {
+ CPU_CYCLES = 0x00000001,
+ INSTRUCTIONS = 0x00000002,
+ CACHE_REFERENCES = 0x00000004,
+ CACHE_MISSES = 0x00000008,
+ BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS = 0x00000010,
+ BRANCH_MISSES = 0x00000020,
+ BUS_CYCLES = 0x00000040,
+ PAGE_FAULTS = 0x00000080,
+ MAJOR_PAGE_FAULTS = 0x00000100,
+ CONTEXT_SWITCHES = 0x00000200,
+ CPU_MIGRATIONS = 0x00000400,
+
+ ALL = 0x000007ff,
+ NUM_MEASURABLE_EVENTS = 11
+ };
+
+ /*
+ * Bitmask of events that will be measured when this object is
+ * active (between Start() and Stop()). This may differ from the
+ * bitmask passed to the constructor if the platform does not
+ * support measuring all of the requested events.
+ */
+ const EventMask eventsMeasured;
+
+ /*
+ * Counters for each measurable event.
+ * Immediately after one of these objects is created, all of the
+ * counters for enabled events will be zero, and all of the
+ * counters for disabled events will be uint64_t(-1).
+ */
+ uint64_t cpu_cycles;
+ uint64_t instructions;
+ uint64_t cache_references;
+ uint64_t cache_misses;
+ uint64_t branch_instructions;
+ uint64_t branch_misses;
+ uint64_t bus_cycles;
+ uint64_t page_faults;
+ uint64_t major_page_faults;
+ uint64_t context_switches;
+ uint64_t cpu_migrations;
+
+ /*
+ * Prepare to measure the indicated set of events. If not all of
+ * the requested events can be measured on the current platform,
+ * then the eventsMeasured bitmask will only include the subset of
+ * |toMeasure| corresponding to the events that can be measured.
+ */
+ explicit PerfMeasurement(EventMask toMeasure);
+
+ /* Done with this set of measurements, tear down OS-level state. */
+ ~PerfMeasurement();
+
+ /* Start a measurement cycle. */
+ void start();
+
+ /*
+ * End a measurement cycle, and for each enabled counter, add the
+ * number of measured events of that type to the appropriate
+ * visible variable.
+ */
+ void stop();
+
+ /* Reset all enabled counters to zero. */
+ void reset();
+
+ /*
+ * True if this platform supports measuring _something_, i.e. it's
+ * not using the stub implementation.
+ */
+ static bool canMeasureSomething();
+};
+
+/* Inject a Javascript wrapper around the above C++ class into the
+ * Javascript object passed as an argument (this will normally be a
+ * global object). The JS-visible API is identical to the C++ API.
+ */
+extern JS_FRIEND_API(JSObject*)
+ RegisterPerfMeasurement(JSContext* cx, JS::HandleObject global);
+
+/*
+ * Given a Value which contains an instance of the aforementioned
+ * wrapper class, extract the C++ object. Returns nullptr if the
+ * Value is not an instance of the wrapper.
+ */
+extern JS_FRIEND_API(PerfMeasurement*)
+ ExtractPerfMeasurement(const Value& wrapper);
+
+} // namespace JS
+
+#endif /* perf_jsperf_h */