trace_event support for thread names

base/debug/trace_event.h

Index: base/debug/trace_event.h
diff --git a/base/debug/trace_event.h b/base/debug/trace_event.h
index d1c74180d16b41e93ca8fa4ff2cf20b5e825ff7d..4689eda89a5989e82ec289905da3731056613339 100644
--- a/base/debug/trace_event.h
+++ b/base/debug/trace_event.h
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
 #include <vector>
 
 #include "base/callback.h"
+#include "base/hash_tables.h"
 #include "base/memory/singleton.h"
 #include "base/string_util.h"
 #include "base/third_party/dynamic_annotations/dynamic_annotations.h"
@@ -296,7 +297,8 @@ const size_t kTraceMaxNumArgs = 2;
 enum TraceEventPhase {
   TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_BEGIN,
   TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_END,
-  TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_INSTANT
+  TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_INSTANT,
+  TRACE_EVENT_PHASE_METADATA
 };
 
 // Simple union of values. This is much lighter weight than base::Value, which
@@ -500,6 +502,9 @@ class BASE_API TraceLog {
     AddTraceEventEtw(phase, name, id, extra.c_str());
   }
 
+  // Metadata
+  void SetCurrentThreadName(const char* name);
+
   // Exposed for unittesting only, allows resurrecting our
   // singleton instance post-AtExit processing.
   static void Resurrect();
@@ -512,6 +517,7 @@ class BASE_API TraceLog {
   TraceLog();
   ~TraceLog();
   const TraceCategory* GetCategoryInternal(const char* name);
+  void AddCurrentMetadataEvents();
 
   // TODO(nduca): switch to per-thread trace buffers to reduce thread
   // synchronization.
@@ -521,6 +527,8 @@ class BASE_API TraceLog {
   BufferFullCallback buffer_full_callback_;
   std::vector<TraceEvent> logged_events_;
 
+  base::hash_map<PlatformThreadId, std::string> thread_names_;

[Sigurður Ásgeirsson, 2011/08/02 19:36:41]

It looks like this map will grow without bounds as there's no thread termination
notification.

+
   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(TraceLog);
 };