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-rw-r--r--src/runtime/metrics/description.go176
-rw-r--r--src/runtime/metrics/description_test.go125
-rw-r--r--src/runtime/metrics/doc.go130
-rw-r--r--src/runtime/metrics/histogram.go30
-rw-r--r--src/runtime/metrics/sample.go37
-rw-r--r--src/runtime/metrics/value.go69
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diff --git a/src/runtime/metrics/description.go b/src/runtime/metrics/description.go
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+// Copyright 2020 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package metrics
+
+// Description describes a runtime metric.
+type Description struct {
+ // Name is the full name of the metric which includes the unit.
+ //
+ // The format of the metric may be described by the following regular expression.
+ //
+ // ^(?P<name>/[^:]+):(?P<unit>[^:*/]+(?:[*/][^:*/]+)*)$
+ //
+ // The format splits the name into two components, separated by a colon: a path which always
+ // starts with a /, and a machine-parseable unit. The name may contain any valid Unicode
+ // codepoint in between / characters, but by convention will try to stick to lowercase
+ // characters and hyphens. An example of such a path might be "/memory/heap/free".
+ //
+ // The unit is by convention a series of lowercase English unit names (singular or plural)
+ // without prefixes delimited by '*' or '/'. The unit names may contain any valid Unicode
+ // codepoint that is not a delimiter.
+ // Examples of units might be "seconds", "bytes", "bytes/second", "cpu-seconds",
+ // "byte*cpu-seconds", and "bytes/second/second".
+ //
+ // A complete name might look like "/memory/heap/free:bytes".
+ Name string
+
+ // Description is an English language sentence describing the metric.
+ Description string
+
+ // Kind is the kind of value for this metric.
+ //
+ // The purpose of this field is to allow users to filter out metrics whose values are
+ // types which their application may not understand.
+ Kind ValueKind
+
+ // Cumulative is whether or not the metric is cumulative. If a cumulative metric is just
+ // a single number, then it increases monotonically. If the metric is a distribution,
+ // then each bucket count increases monotonically.
+ //
+ // This flag thus indicates whether or not it's useful to compute a rate from this value.
+ Cumulative bool
+
+ // StopTheWorld is whether or not the metric requires a stop-the-world
+ // event in order to collect it.
+ StopTheWorld bool
+}
+
+// The English language descriptions below must be kept in sync with the
+// descriptions of each metric in doc.go.
+var allDesc = []Description{
+ {
+ Name: "/gc/cycles/automatic:gc-cycles",
+ Description: "Count of completed GC cycles generated by the Go runtime.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ Cumulative: true,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/gc/cycles/forced:gc-cycles",
+ Description: "Count of completed forced GC cycles.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ Cumulative: true,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/gc/cycles/total:gc-cycles",
+ Description: "Count of all completed GC cycles.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ Cumulative: true,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/gc/heap/allocs-by-size:objects",
+ Description: "Distribution of all objects allocated by approximate size.",
+ Kind: KindFloat64Histogram,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/gc/heap/frees-by-size:objects",
+ Description: "Distribution of all objects freed by approximate size.",
+ Kind: KindFloat64Histogram,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/gc/heap/goal:bytes",
+ Description: "Heap size target for the end of the GC cycle.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/gc/heap/objects:objects",
+ Description: "Number of objects, live or unswept, occupying heap memory.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/gc/pauses:seconds",
+ Description: "Distribution individual GC-related stop-the-world pause latencies.",
+ Kind: KindFloat64Histogram,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/heap/free:bytes",
+ Description: "Memory that is available for allocation, and may be returned to the underlying system.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/heap/objects:bytes",
+ Description: "Memory occupied by live objects and dead objects that have not yet been collected.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/heap/released:bytes",
+ Description: "Memory that has been returned to the underlying system.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/heap/stacks:bytes",
+ Description: "Memory allocated from the heap that is occupied by stacks.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/heap/unused:bytes",
+ Description: "Memory that is unavailable for allocation, but cannot be returned to the underlying system.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/metadata/mcache/free:bytes",
+ Description: "Memory that is reserved for runtime mcache structures, but not in-use.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/metadata/mcache/inuse:bytes",
+ Description: "Memory that is occupied by runtime mcache structures that are currently being used.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/metadata/mspan/free:bytes",
+ Description: "Memory that is reserved for runtime mspan structures, but not in-use.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/metadata/mspan/inuse:bytes",
+ Description: "Memory that is occupied by runtime mspan structures that are currently being used.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/metadata/other:bytes",
+ Description: "Memory that is reserved for or used to hold runtime metadata.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/os-stacks:bytes",
+ Description: "Stack memory allocated by the underlying operating system.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/other:bytes",
+ Description: "Memory used by execution trace buffers, structures for debugging the runtime, finalizer and profiler specials, and more.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/profiling/buckets:bytes",
+ Description: "Memory that is used by the stack trace hash map used for profiling.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/memory/classes/total:bytes",
+ Description: "All memory mapped by the Go runtime into the current process as read-write. Note that this does not include memory mapped by code called via cgo or via the syscall package. Sum of all metrics in /memory/classes.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+ {
+ Name: "/sched/goroutines:goroutines",
+ Description: "Count of live goroutines.",
+ Kind: KindUint64,
+ },
+}
+
+// All returns a slice of containing metric descriptions for all supported metrics.
+func All() []Description {
+ return allDesc
+}
diff --git a/src/runtime/metrics/description_test.go b/src/runtime/metrics/description_test.go
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+// Copyright 2020 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package metrics_test
+
+import (
+ "bufio"
+ "os"
+ "path/filepath"
+ "regexp"
+ "runtime"
+ "runtime/metrics"
+ "strings"
+ "testing"
+)
+
+func TestDescriptionNameFormat(t *testing.T) {
+ r := regexp.MustCompile("^(?P<name>/[^:]+):(?P<unit>[^:*/]+(?:[*/][^:*/]+)*)$")
+ descriptions := metrics.All()
+ for _, desc := range descriptions {
+ if !r.MatchString(desc.Name) {
+ t.Errorf("metrics %q does not match regexp %s", desc.Name, r)
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+func extractMetricDocs(t *testing.T) map[string]string {
+ if runtime.GOOS == "android" {
+ t.Skip("no access to Go source on android")
+ }
+
+ // Get doc.go.
+ _, filename, _, _ := runtime.Caller(0)
+ filename = filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(filename), "doc.go")
+
+ f, err := os.Open(filename)
+ if err != nil {
+ t.Fatal(err)
+ }
+ const (
+ stateSearch = iota // look for list of metrics
+ stateNextMetric // look for next metric
+ stateNextDescription // build description
+ )
+ state := stateSearch
+ s := bufio.NewScanner(f)
+ result := make(map[string]string)
+ var metric string
+ var prevMetric string
+ var desc strings.Builder
+ for s.Scan() {
+ line := strings.TrimSpace(s.Text())
+ switch state {
+ case stateSearch:
+ if line == "Supported metrics" {
+ state = stateNextMetric
+ }
+ case stateNextMetric:
+ // Ignore empty lines until we find a non-empty
+ // one. This will be our metric name.
+ if len(line) != 0 {
+ prevMetric = metric
+ metric = line
+ if prevMetric > metric {
+ t.Errorf("metrics %s and %s are out of lexicographical order", prevMetric, metric)
+ }
+ state = stateNextDescription
+ }
+ case stateNextDescription:
+ if len(line) == 0 || line == `*/` {
+ // An empty line means we're done.
+ // Write down the description and look
+ // for a new metric.
+ result[metric] = desc.String()
+ desc.Reset()
+ state = stateNextMetric
+ } else {
+ // As long as we're seeing data, assume that's
+ // part of the description and append it.
+ if desc.Len() != 0 {
+ // Turn previous newlines into spaces.
+ desc.WriteString(" ")
+ }
+ desc.WriteString(line)
+ }
+ }
+ if line == `*/` {
+ break
+ }
+ }
+ if state == stateSearch {
+ t.Fatalf("failed to find supported metrics docs in %s", filename)
+ }
+ return result
+}
+
+func TestDescriptionDocs(t *testing.T) {
+ docs := extractMetricDocs(t)
+ descriptions := metrics.All()
+ for _, d := range descriptions {
+ want := d.Description
+ got, ok := docs[d.Name]
+ if !ok {
+ t.Errorf("no docs found for metric %s", d.Name)
+ continue
+ }
+ if got != want {
+ t.Errorf("mismatched description and docs for metric %s", d.Name)
+ t.Errorf("want: %q, got %q", want, got)
+ continue
+ }
+ }
+ if len(docs) > len(descriptions) {
+ docsLoop:
+ for name, _ := range docs {
+ for _, d := range descriptions {
+ if name == d.Name {
+ continue docsLoop
+ }
+ }
+ t.Errorf("stale documentation for non-existent metric: %s", name)
+ }
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/runtime/metrics/doc.go b/src/runtime/metrics/doc.go
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+// Copyright 2020 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+/*
+Package metrics provides a stable interface to access implementation-defined
+metrics exported by the Go runtime. This package is similar to existing functions
+like runtime.ReadMemStats and debug.ReadGCStats, but significantly more general.
+
+The set of metrics defined by this package may evolve as the runtime itself
+evolves, and also enables variation across Go implementations, whose relevant
+metric sets may not intersect.
+
+Interface
+
+Metrics are designated by a string key, rather than, for example, a field name in
+a struct. The full list of supported metrics is always available in the slice of
+Descriptions returned by All. Each Description also includes useful information
+about the metric, such as how to display it (e.g. gauge vs. counter) and how difficult
+or disruptive it is to obtain it (e.g. do you need to stop the world?).
+
+Thus, users of this API are encouraged to sample supported metrics defined by the
+slice returned by All to remain compatible across Go versions. Of course, situations
+arise where reading specific metrics is critical. For these cases, users are
+encouranged to use build tags, and although metrics may be deprecated and removed,
+users should consider this to be an exceptional and rare event, coinciding with a
+very large change in a particular Go implementation.
+
+Each metric key also has a "kind" that describes the format of the metric's value.
+In the interest of not breaking users of this package, the "kind" for a given metric
+is guaranteed not to change. If it must change, then a new metric will be introduced
+with a new key and a new "kind."
+
+Metric key format
+
+As mentioned earlier, metric keys are strings. Their format is simple and well-defined,
+designed to be both human and machine readable. It is split into two components,
+separated by a colon: a rooted path and a unit. The choice to include the unit in
+the key is motivated by compatibility: if a metric's unit changes, its semantics likely
+did also, and a new key should be introduced.
+
+For more details on the precise definition of the metric key's path and unit formats, see
+the documentation of the Name field of the Description struct.
+
+Supported metrics
+
+ /gc/cycles/automatic:gc-cycles
+ Count of completed GC cycles generated by the Go runtime.
+
+ /gc/cycles/forced:gc-cycles
+ Count of completed forced GC cycles.
+
+ /gc/cycles/total:gc-cycles
+ Count of all completed GC cycles.
+
+ /gc/heap/allocs-by-size:objects
+ Distribution of all objects allocated by approximate size.
+
+ /gc/heap/frees-by-size:objects
+ Distribution of all objects freed by approximate size.
+
+ /gc/heap/goal:bytes
+ Heap size target for the end of the GC cycle.
+
+ /gc/heap/objects:objects
+ Number of objects, live or unswept, occupying heap memory.
+
+ /gc/pauses:seconds
+ Distribution individual GC-related stop-the-world pause latencies.
+
+ /memory/classes/heap/free:bytes
+ Memory that is available for allocation, and may be returned
+ to the underlying system.
+
+ /memory/classes/heap/objects:bytes
+ Memory occupied by live objects and dead objects that have
+ not yet been collected.
+
+ /memory/classes/heap/released:bytes
+ Memory that has been returned to the underlying system.
+
+ /memory/classes/heap/stacks:bytes
+ Memory allocated from the heap that is occupied by stacks.
+
+ /memory/classes/heap/unused:bytes
+ Memory that is unavailable for allocation, but cannot be
+ returned to the underlying system.
+
+ /memory/classes/metadata/mcache/free:bytes
+ Memory that is reserved for runtime mcache structures, but
+ not in-use.
+
+ /memory/classes/metadata/mcache/inuse:bytes
+ Memory that is occupied by runtime mcache structures that
+ are currently being used.
+
+ /memory/classes/metadata/mspan/free:bytes
+ Memory that is reserved for runtime mspan structures, but
+ not in-use.
+
+ /memory/classes/metadata/mspan/inuse:bytes
+ Memory that is occupied by runtime mspan structures that are
+ currently being used.
+
+ /memory/classes/metadata/other:bytes
+ Memory that is reserved for or used to hold runtime
+ metadata.
+
+ /memory/classes/os-stacks:bytes
+ Stack memory allocated by the underlying operating system.
+
+ /memory/classes/other:bytes
+ Memory used by execution trace buffers, structures for
+ debugging the runtime, finalizer and profiler specials, and
+ more.
+
+ /memory/classes/profiling/buckets:bytes
+ Memory that is used by the stack trace hash map used for
+ profiling.
+
+ /memory/classes/total:bytes
+ All memory mapped by the Go runtime into the current process
+ as read-write. Note that this does not include memory mapped
+ by code called via cgo or via the syscall package.
+ Sum of all metrics in /memory/classes.
+
+ /sched/goroutines:goroutines
+ Count of live goroutines.
+*/
+package metrics
diff --git a/src/runtime/metrics/histogram.go b/src/runtime/metrics/histogram.go
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+// Copyright 2020 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package metrics
+
+// Float64Histogram represents a distribution of float64 values.
+type Float64Histogram struct {
+ // Counts contains the weights for each histogram bucket. The length of
+ // Counts is equal to the length of Buckets (in the metric description)
+ // plus one to account for the implicit minimum bucket.
+ //
+ // Given N buckets, the following is the mathematical relationship between
+ // Counts and Buckets.
+ // count[0] is the weight of the range (-inf, bucket[0])
+ // count[n] is the weight of the range [bucket[n], bucket[n+1]), for 0 < n < N-1
+ // count[N-1] is the weight of the range [bucket[N-1], inf)
+ Counts []uint64
+
+ // Buckets contains the boundaries between histogram buckets, in increasing order.
+ //
+ // Because this slice contains boundaries, there are len(Buckets)+1 counts:
+ // a count for all values less than the first boundary, a count covering each
+ // [slice[i], slice[i+1]) interval, and a count for all values greater than or
+ // equal to the last boundary.
+ //
+ // For a given metric name, the value of Buckets is guaranteed not to change
+ // between calls until program exit.
+ Buckets []float64
+}
diff --git a/src/runtime/metrics/sample.go b/src/runtime/metrics/sample.go
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+// Copyright 2020 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package metrics
+
+import (
+ _ "runtime" // depends on the runtime via a linkname'd function
+ "unsafe"
+)
+
+// Sample captures a single metric sample.
+type Sample struct {
+ // Name is the name of the metric sampled.
+ //
+ // It must correspond to a name in one of the metric descriptions
+ // returned by Descriptions.
+ Name string
+
+ // Value is the value of the metric sample.
+ Value Value
+}
+
+// Implemented in the runtime.
+func runtime_readMetrics(unsafe.Pointer, int, int)
+
+// Read populates each Value field in the given slice of metric samples.
+//
+// Desired metrics should be present in the slice with the appropriate name.
+// The user of this API is encouraged to re-use the same slice between calls.
+//
+// Metric values with names not appearing in the value returned by Descriptions
+// will have the value populated as KindBad to indicate that the name is
+// unknown.
+func Read(m []Sample) {
+ runtime_readMetrics(unsafe.Pointer(&m[0]), len(m), cap(m))
+}
diff --git a/src/runtime/metrics/value.go b/src/runtime/metrics/value.go
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+// Copyright 2020 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package metrics
+
+import (
+ "math"
+ "unsafe"
+)
+
+// ValueKind is a tag for a metric Value which indicates its type.
+type ValueKind int
+
+const (
+ // KindBad indicates that the Value has no type and should not be used.
+ KindBad ValueKind = iota
+
+ // KindUint64 indicates that the type of the Value is a uint64.
+ KindUint64
+
+ // KindFloat64 indicates that the type of the Value is a float64.
+ KindFloat64
+
+ // KindFloat64Histogram indicates that the type of the Value is a *Float64Histogram.
+ KindFloat64Histogram
+)
+
+// Value represents a metric value returned by the runtime.
+type Value struct {
+ kind ValueKind
+ scalar uint64 // contains scalar values for scalar Kinds.
+ pointer unsafe.Pointer // contains non-scalar values.
+}
+
+// Kind returns the a tag representing the kind of value this is.
+func (v Value) Kind() ValueKind {
+ return v.kind
+}
+
+// Uint64 returns the internal uint64 value for the metric.
+//
+// If v.Kind() != KindUint64, this method panics.
+func (v Value) Uint64() uint64 {
+ if v.kind != KindUint64 {
+ panic("called Uint64 on non-uint64 metric value")
+ }
+ return v.scalar
+}
+
+// Float64 returns the internal float64 value for the metric.
+//
+// If v.Kind() != KindFloat64, this method panics.
+func (v Value) Float64() float64 {
+ if v.kind != KindFloat64 {
+ panic("called Float64 on non-float64 metric value")
+ }
+ return math.Float64frombits(v.scalar)
+}
+
+// Float64Histogram returns the internal *Float64Histogram value for the metric.
+//
+// If v.Kind() != KindFloat64Histogram, this method panics.
+func (v Value) Float64Histogram() *Float64Histogram {
+ if v.kind != KindFloat64Histogram {
+ panic("called Float64 on non-float64 metric value")
+ }
+ return (*Float64Histogram)(v.pointer)
+}