tree 53f9d7bad611e2202f5062909bc398f739fe3c42
parent 2e2692d3e419022f52517ccbba30504553f3c238
author Ryan Savitski <rsavitski@google.com> 1544804452 +0000
committer Ryan Savitski <rsavitski@google.com> 1548202095 +0000

zygote children: propagate profileability to bionic for native heap profiling

go/heapprofd is a native heap profiler for android Q+. Its triggering is
implemented within /bionic/libc. App processes (i.e.  zygote children) are not
considered profileable by default on "user" builds. To opt-in into being
profileable, the app's manifest needs to have the Q+ go/profileable flag set
(or be marked as debuggable, which is its superset).

With this change, if the app is supposed to be profileable, post-fork runtime
init calls into bionic to mark itself as such, and possibly start "from
startup" profiling.

On userdebug, all zygote children are marked profileable via the same
mechanism. System server is also marked profileable on userdebug (and needs a
separate codepath, as it does not have an activity thread).

See go/heapprofd-java-trigger for details on why we're taking this approach.
Context on the profiler itself: go/heapprofd-design.

Test: flashed blueline-userdebug, confirmed that java profiling activates from startup and at runtime.
Test: flashed crosshatch-user, confirmed that no java profiling is enabled by default.
Bug: 120409382
Change-Id: Ia038871acfa6b9cae7b6a81f666aecce4b68a4fc