FBAnimationPerformanceTracker

FBAnimationPerformanceTracker.h

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 *
 * FBAnimationPerformanceTracker
 * -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * This class provides animation performance tracking functionality.  It basically
 * measures the app's frame rate during an operation, and reports this information.
 *
 * 1) In Foo's designated initializer, construct a tracker object
 *
 * 2) Add calls to -start and -stop in appropriate places, e.g. for a ScrollView
 *
 * - (void)scrollViewWillBeginDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
 *   [_apTracker start];
 * }
 *
 * - (void)scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
 * {
 *   if (!scrollView.dragging) {
 *     [_apTracker stop];
 *   }
 * }
 *
 * - (void)scrollViewDidEndDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView willDecelerate:(BOOL)decelerate {
 *   if (!decelerate) {
 *     [_apTracker stop];
 *   }
 * }
 *
 * Notes
 * -----
 * [] The tracker operates by creating a CADisplayLink object to measure the frame rate of the display
 * during start/stop interval.
 *
 * [] Calls to -stop that were not preceded by a matching call to -start have no effect.
 *
 * [] 2 calls to -start in a row will trash the data accumulated so far and not log anything.
 *
 *
 * Configuration object for the core tracker
 *
 * ===============================================================================
 * I highly recommend for you to use the standard configuration provided
 * These are essentially here so that the computation of the metric is transparent
 * and you can feel confident in what the numbers mean.
 * ===============================================================================
 */
struct FBAnimationPerformanceTrackerConfig
{
  // Number of frame drop that defines a "small" drop event. By default, 1.
  NSInteger smallDropEventFrameNumber;
  // Number of frame drop that defines a "large" drop event. By default, 4.
  NSInteger largeDropEventFrameNumber;
  // Number of maximum frame drops to which the drop will be trimmed down to. Currently 15.
  NSInteger maxFrameDropAccount;

  // If YES, will report stack traces
  BOOL reportStackTraces;
};
typedef struct FBAnimationPerformanceTrackerConfig FBAnimationPerformanceTrackerConfig;


@protocol FBAnimationPerformanceTrackerDelegate <NSObject>

/**
 * Core Metric
 *
 * You are responsible for the aggregation of these metrics (it being on the client or the server). I recommend to implement both
 * to limit the payload you are sending to the server.
 *
 * The final recommended metric being: - SUM(duration) / SUM(smallDropEvent) aka the number of seconds between one frame drop or more
 *                                     - SUM(duration) / SUM(largeDropEvent) aka the number of seconds between four frame drops or more
 *
 * The first metric will tell you how smooth is your scroll view.
 * The second metric will tell you how clowny your scroll view can get.
 *
 * Every time stop is called, this event will fire reporting the performance.
 *
 * NOTE on this metric:
 * - It has been tested at scale on many Facebook apps.
 * - It follows the curves of devices.
 * - You will need about 100K calls for the number to converge.
 * - It is perfectly correlated to X = Percentage of time spent at 60fps. Number of seconds between one frame drop = 1 / ( 1 - Time spent at 60 fps)
 * - We report fraction of drops. 7 frame drop = 1.75 of a large frame drop if a large drop is 4 frame drop.
 *   This is to preserve the correlation mentionned above.
 */
- (void)reportDurationInMS:(NSInteger)duration smallDropEvent:(double)smallDropEvent largeDropEvent:(double)largeDropEvent;

/**
 * Stack traces
 *
 * Dark magic of the animation tracker. In case of a frame drop, this will return a stack trace.
 * This will NOT be reported on the main-thread, but off-main thread to save a few CPU cycles.
 *
 * The slide is constant value that needs to be reported with the stack for processing.
 * This currently only allows for symbolication of your own image.
 *
 * Future work includes symbolicating all modules. I personnaly find it usually
 * good enough to know the name of the module.
 *
 * The stack will have the following format:
 * Foundation:0x123|MyApp:0x234|MyApp:0x345|
 *
 * The slide will have the following format:
 * 0x456
 */
- (void)reportStackTrace:(NSString *)stack withSlide:(NSString *)slide;

@end

@interface FBAnimationPerformanceTracker : NSObject

- (instancetype)initWithConfig:(FBAnimationPerformanceTrackerConfig)config;

+ (FBAnimationPerformanceTrackerConfig)standardConfig;

@property (weak, nonatomic, readwrite) id<FBAnimationPerformanceTrackerDelegate> delegate;

- (void)start;
- (void)stop;

@end




#import "FBAnimationPerformanceTracker.h"

#import <dlfcn.h>
#import <map>
#import <pthread.h>

#import <QuartzCore/CADisplayLink.h>

#import <mach-o/dyld.h>

#import "execinfo.h"

#include <mach/mach_time.h>

static BOOL _signalSetup;
static pthread_t _mainThread;
static NSThread *_trackerThread;

static std::map<void *, NSString *, std::greater<void *>> _imageNames;

#ifdef __LP64__
typedef mach_header_64 fb_mach_header;
typedef segment_command_64 fb_mach_segment_command;
#define LC_SEGMENT_ARCH LC_SEGMENT_64
#else
typedef mach_header fb_mach_header;
typedef segment_command fb_mach_segment_command;
#define LC_SEGMENT_ARCH LC_SEGMENT
#endif

static volatile BOOL _scrolling;
pthread_mutex_t _scrollingMutex;
pthread_cond_t _scrollingCondVariable;
dispatch_queue_t _symbolicationQueue;

// We record at most 16 frames since I cap the number of frames dropped measured at 15.
// Past 15, something went very wrong (massive contention, priority inversion, rpc call going wrong...) .
// It will only pollute the data to get more.
static const int callstack_max_number = 16;

static int callstack_i;
static bool callstack_dirty;
static int callstack_size[callstack_max_number];
static void *callstacks[callstack_max_number][128];
uint64_t callstack_time_capture;

static void _callstack_signal_handler(int signr, siginfo_t *info, void *secret)
{
  // This is run on the main thread every 16 ms or so during scroll.

  // Signals are run one by one so there is no risk of concurrency of a signal
  // by the same signal.

  // The backtrace call is technically signal-safe on Unix-based system
  // See: http://www.unix.com/man-page/all/3c/walkcontext/

  // WARNING: this is signal handler, no memory allocation is safe.
  // Essentially nothing is safe unless specified it is.
  callstack_size[callstack_i] = backtrace(callstacks[callstack_i], 128);
  callstack_i = (callstack_i + 1) & (callstack_max_number - 1); // & is a cheap modulo (only works for power of 2)
  callstack_dirty = true;
}

@interface FBCallstack : NSObject
@property (nonatomic, readonly, assign) int size;
@property (nonatomic, readonly, assign) void **callstack;
- (instancetype)initWithSize:(int)size callstack:(void *)callstack;
@end

@implementation FBCallstack
- (instancetype)initWithSize:(int)size callstack:(void *)callstack
{
  if (self = [super init]) {
    _size = size;
    _callstack = (void **)malloc(size * sizeof(void *));
    memcpy(_callstack, callstack, size * sizeof(void *));
  }
  return self;
}

- (void)dealloc
{
  free(_callstack);
}
@end

@implementation FBAnimationPerformanceTracker
{
  FBAnimationPerformanceTrackerConfig _config;

  BOOL _tracking;
  BOOL _firstUpdate;
  NSTimeInterval _previousFrameTimestamp;
  CADisplayLink *_displayLink;
  BOOL _prepared;

  // numbers used to track the performance metrics
  double _durationTotal;
  double _maxFrameTime;
  double _smallDrops;
  double _largeDrops;
}

- (instancetype)initWithConfig:(FBAnimationPerformanceTrackerConfig)config
{
  if (self = [super init]) {
    // Stack trace logging is not working well in debug mode
    // We don't want the data anyway. So let's bail.
#if defined(DEBUG)
    config.reportStackTraces = NO;
#endif
    _config = config;
    if (config.reportStackTraces) {
      [self _setupSignal];
    }
  }
  return self;
}

+ (FBAnimationPerformanceTrackerConfig)standardConfig
{
  FBAnimationPerformanceTrackerConfig config = {
    .smallDropEventFrameNumber = 1,
    .largeDropEventFrameNumber = 4,
    .maxFrameDropAccount = 15,
    .reportStackTraces = NO,
    .reportLegacyMetrics = NO,
  };
  return config;
}

+ (void)_trackerLoop
{
  while (true) {
    // If you are confused by this part,
    // Check out https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/#ConditionVariables

    // Lock the mutex
    pthread_mutex_lock(&_scrollingMutex);
    while (!_scrolling) {
      // Unlock the mutex and sleep until the conditional variable is signaled
      pthread_cond_wait(&_scrollingCondVariable, &_scrollingMutex);
      // The conditional variable was signaled, but we need to check _scrolling
      // As nothing guarantees that it is still true
    }
    // _scrolling is true, go ahead and capture traces for a while.
    pthread_mutex_unlock(&_scrollingMutex);

    // We are scrolling, yay, capture traces
    while (_scrolling) {
      usleep(16000);

      // Here I use SIGPROF which is a signal supposed to be used for profiling
      // I haven't stumbled upon any collision so far.
      // There is no guarantee that it won't impact the system in unpredicted ways.
      // Use wisely.

      pthread_kill(_mainThread, SIGPROF);
    }
  }
}

- (void)_setupSignal
{
  if (!_signalSetup) {
    // The signal hook should be setup once and only once
    _signalSetup = YES;

    // I actually don't know if the main thread can die. If it does, well,
    // this is not going to work.
    // UPDATE 4/2015: on iOS8, it looks like the main-thread never dies, and this pointer is correct
    _mainThread = pthread_self();

    callstack_i = 0;

    // Setup the signal
    struct sigaction sa;
    sigfillset(&sa.sa_mask);
    sa.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO;
    sa.sa_sigaction = _callstack_signal_handler;
    sigaction(SIGPROF, &sa, NULL);

    pthread_mutex_init(&_scrollingMutex, NULL);
    pthread_cond_init (&_scrollingCondVariable, NULL);

    // Setup the signal firing loop
    _trackerThread = [[NSThread alloc] initWithTarget:[self class] selector:@selector(_trackerLoop) object:nil];
    // We wanna be higher priority than the main thread
    // On iOS8 : this will roughly stick us at priority 61, while the main thread oscillates between 20 and 47
    _trackerThread.threadPriority = 1.0;
    [_trackerThread start];

    _symbolicationQueue = dispatch_queue_create("com.facebook.symbolication", DISPATCH_QUEUE_SERIAL);
    dispatch_async(_symbolicationQueue, ^(void) {[self _setupSymbolication];});
  }
}

- (void)_setupSymbolication
{
  // This extract the starting slide of every module in the app
  // This is used to know which module an instruction pointer belongs to.

  // These operations is NOT thread-safe according to Apple docs
  // Do not call this multiple times
  int images = _dyld_image_count();

  for (int i = 0; i < images; i ++) {
    intptr_t imageSlide = _dyld_get_image_vmaddr_slide(i);

    // Here we extract the module name from the full path
    // Typically it looks something like: /path/to/lib/UIKit
    // And I just extract UIKit
    NSString *fullName = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:_dyld_get_image_name(i)];
    NSRange range = [fullName rangeOfString:@"/" options:NSBackwardsSearch];
    NSUInteger startP = (range.location != NSNotFound) ? range.location + 1 : 0;
    NSString *imageName = [fullName substringFromIndex:startP];

    // This is parsing the mach header in order to extract the slide.
    // See https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/MachORuntime/index.html
    // For the structure of mach headers
    fb_mach_header *header = (fb_mach_header*)_dyld_get_image_header(i);
    if (!header) {
      continue;
    }

    const struct load_command *cmd =
    reinterpret_cast<const struct load_command *>(header + 1);

    for (unsigned int c = 0; cmd && (c < header->ncmds); c++) {
      if (cmd->cmd == LC_SEGMENT_ARCH) {
        const fb_mach_segment_command *seg =
        reinterpret_cast<const fb_mach_segment_command *>(cmd);

        if (!strcmp(seg->segname, "__TEXT")) {
          _imageNames[(void *)(seg->vmaddr + imageSlide)] = imageName;
          break;
        }
      }
      cmd = reinterpret_cast<struct load_command*>((char *)cmd + cmd->cmdsize);
    }
  }
}

- (void)dealloc
{
  if (_prepared) {
    [self _tearDownCADisplayLink];
  }
}

#pragma mark - Tracking

- (void)start
{
  if (!_tracking) {
    if ([self prepare]) {
      _displayLink.paused = NO;
      _tracking = YES;
      [self _reset];

      if (_config.reportStackTraces) {
        pthread_mutex_lock(&_scrollingMutex);
        _scrolling = YES;
        // Signal the tracker thread to start firing the signals
        pthread_cond_signal(&_scrollingCondVariable);
        pthread_mutex_unlock(&_scrollingMutex);
      }
    }
  }
}

- (void)stop
{
  if (_tracking) {
    _tracking = NO;
    _displayLink.paused = YES;
    if (_durationTotal > 0) {
      [_delegate reportDurationInMS:round(1000.0 * _durationTotal) smallDropEvent:_smallDrops largeDropEvent:_largeDrops];
      if (_config.reportStackTraces) {
        pthread_mutex_lock(&_scrollingMutex);
        _scrolling = NO;
        pthread_mutex_unlock(&_scrollingMutex);
      }
    }
  }
}

- (BOOL)prepare
{
  if (_prepared) {
    return YES;
  }

  [self _setUpCADisplayLink];
  _prepared = YES;

  return YES;
}

- (void)_setUpCADisplayLink
{
  _displayLink = [CADisplayLink displayLinkWithTarget:self selector:@selector(_update)];
  [_displayLink addToRunLoop:[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] forMode:NSRunLoopCommonModes];
  _displayLink.paused = YES;
}

- (void)_tearDownCADisplayLink
{
  [_displayLink invalidate];
  _displayLink = nil;
}

- (void)_reset
{
  _firstUpdate = YES;
  _previousFrameTimestamp = 0.0;
  _durationTotal = 0;
  _maxFrameTime = 0;
  _largeDrops = 0;
  _smallDrops = 0;
  _histogram = FBAnimationFrameTimeHistogramZero;
}

- (void)_addFrameTime:(NSTimeInterval)actualFrameTime singleFrameTime:(NSTimeInterval)singleFrameTime
{
  _maxFrameTime = MAX(actualFrameTime, _maxFrameTime);

  NSInteger frameDropped = round(actualFrameTime / singleFrameTime) - 1;
  frameDropped = MAX(frameDropped, 0);
  // This is to reduce noise. Massive frame drops will just add noise to your data.
  frameDropped = MIN(_config.maxFrameDropAccount, frameDropped);

  _durationTotal += (frameDropped + 1) * singleFrameTime;
  // We account 2 frame drops as 2 small events. This way the metric correlates perfectly with Time at X fps.
  _smallDrops += (frameDropped >= _config.smallDropEventFrameNumber) ? ((double) frameDropped) / (double)_config.smallDropEventFrameNumber : 0.0;
  _largeDrops += (frameDropped >= _config.largeDropEventFrameNumber) ? ((double) frameDropped) / (double)_config.largeDropEventFrameNumber : 0.0;

  if (frameDropped >= 1) {
    if (_config.reportStackTraces) {
      callstack_dirty = false;
      for (int ci = 0; ci <= frameDropped ; ci ++) {
        // This is computing the previous indexes
        // callstack - 1 - ci takes us back ci frames
        // I want a positive number so I add callstack_max_number
        // And then just modulo it, with & (callstack_max_number - 1)
        int callstackPreviousIndex = ((callstack_i - 1 - ci) + callstack_max_number) & (callstack_max_number - 1);
        FBCallstack *callstackCopy = [[FBCallstack alloc] initWithSize:callstack_size[callstackPreviousIndex] callstack:callstacks[callstackPreviousIndex]];
        // Check that in between the beginning and the end of the copy the signal did not fire
        if (!callstack_dirty) {
          // The copy has been made. We are now fine, let's punt the rest off main-thread.
          __weak FBAnimationPerformanceTracker *weakSelf = self;
          dispatch_async(_symbolicationQueue, ^(void) {
            [weakSelf _reportStackTrace:callstackCopy];
          });
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

- (void)_update
{
  if (!_tracking) {
    return;
  }

  if (_firstUpdate) {
    _firstUpdate = NO;
    _previousFrameTimestamp = _displayLink.timestamp;
    return;
  }

  NSTimeInterval currentTimestamp = _displayLink.timestamp;
  NSTimeInterval frameTime = currentTimestamp - _previousFrameTimestamp;
  [self _addFrameTime:frameTime singleFrameTime:_displayLink.duration];
  _previousFrameTimestamp = currentTimestamp;
}

- (void)_reportStackTrace:(FBCallstack *)callstack
{
  static NSString *slide;
  static dispatch_once_t slide_predicate;

  dispatch_once(&slide_predicate, ^{
    slide = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%p", (void *)_dyld_get_image_header(0)];
  });

  @autoreleasepool {
    NSMutableString *stack = [NSMutableString string];

    for (int j = 2; j < callstack.size; j ++) {
      void *instructionPointer = callstack.callstack[j];
      auto it = _imageNames.lower_bound(instructionPointer);

      NSString *imageName = (it != _imageNames.end()) ? it->second : @"???";

      [stack appendString:imageName];
      [stack appendString:@":"];
      [stack appendString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%p", instructionPointer]];
      [stack appendString:@"|"];
    }

    [_delegate reportStackTrace:stack withSlide:slide];
  }
}
@end

May I have your email? I have some questions to ask you for advice.

anyway to include this in a project that doesn't break @import and FOUNDATION_EXPORT. Since it's obj-c++, I guess modules don't work. and i don't really want to change around my whole project just to use this.

@tettoffensive did you ever solve your issue? i'm encountering the same.

i had success getting this to build by changing the objc class that used it from .m to .mm. I had some other issues using the code in this gist after that:

1. FBAnimationPerformanceTrackerConfig struct was missing a member for reportLegacyMetrics
2. _histogram and FBAnimationFrameTimeHistogramZero were not defined (see _reset method)

For now I commented that out of the _reset function just to get it to build. After building I'm still struggling to figure out how to assemble the results into something meaningful, but I thought I'd post this here in case it helps others.

If anyone has a sample project that uses this to measure their own scrolling behavior I'd love to see it to get a better idea of how to apply this to my situation. I have complex cells that I'm having trouble getting to scroll smoothly. My issues appear to be related to using NSAttributedStrings in text views in the tableview cells.