Record async "task backtraces"

base/debug/task_annotator.cc

 // Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "base/debug/task_annotator.h"
 
 #include "base/debug/activity_tracker.h"
 #include "base/debug/alias.h"
 #include "base/pending_task.h"
 #include "base/trace_event/trace_event.h"
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   tracked_objects::TaskStopwatch stopwatch;
   stopwatch.Start();
   tracked_objects::Duration queue_duration =
       stopwatch.StartTime() - pending_task->EffectiveTimePosted();
 
   TRACE_EVENT_WITH_FLOW1(
       TRACE_DISABLED_BY_DEFAULT("toplevel.flow"), queue_function,
       TRACE_ID_MANGLE(GetTaskTraceID(*pending_task)), TRACE_EVENT_FLAG_FLOW_IN,
       "queue_duration", queue_duration.InMilliseconds());
 
-  // Before running the task, store the program counter where it was posted
-  // and deliberately alias it to ensure it is on the stack if the task
-  // crashes. Be careful not to assume that the variable itself will have the
-  // expected value when displayed by the optimizer in an optimized build.
-  // Look at a memory dump of the stack.
-  const void* program_counter = pending_task->posted_from.program_counter();
-  debug::Alias(&program_counter);
+  // Before running the task, store the task backtrace with the chain of
+  // PostTasks that resulted in this call and deliberately alias it to ensure
+  // it is on the stack if the task crashes. Be careful not to assume that the
+  // variable itself will have the expected value when displayed by the
+  // optimizer in an optimized build. Look at a memory dump of the stack.
+  const void* task_backtrace[4];

[danakj, 2017/02/08 18:06:22]

can you static assert that this is the same size as the pending task's array?
(or 1 larger if we dedupe the 0th element)

[awong, 2017/02/08 23:20:38]

good idea. done. Actually did better and just tied the size of the array in the
stack to the array in the struct.

+  memcpy(&task_backtrace[0], &pending_task->task_backtrace[0],
+         sizeof(task_backtrace));
+  debug::Alias(&task_backtrace);
 
   std::move(pending_task->task).Run();
 
   stopwatch.Stop();
   tracked_objects::ThreadData::TallyRunOnNamedThreadIfTracking(*pending_task,
                                                                stopwatch);
 }
 
 uint64_t TaskAnnotator::GetTaskTraceID(const PendingTask& task) const {
   return (static_cast<uint64_t>(task.sequence_num) << 32) |
          ((static_cast<uint64_t>(reinterpret_cast<intptr_t>(this)) << 32) >>
           32);
 }
 
 }  // namespace debug
 }  // namespace base