Performance tracing facility for clangd.
Summary: This lets you visualize clangd's activity on different threads over time, and understand critical paths of requests and object lifetimes. The data produced can be visualized in Chrome (at chrome://tracing), or in a standalone copy of catapult (http://github.com/catapult-project/catapult) This patch consists of: - a command line flag "-trace" that causes clangd to emit JSON trace data - an API (in Trace.h) allowing clangd code to easily add events to the stream - several initial uses of this API to capture JSON-RPC requests, builds, logs Example result: https://photos.app.goo.gl/12L9swaz5REGQ1rm1 Caveats: - JSON serialization is ad-hoc (isn't it everywhere?) so the API is limited to naming events rather than attaching arbitrary metadata. I'd like to fix this (I think we could use a JSON-object abstraction). - The recording is very naive: events are written immediately by locking a mutex. Contention on the mutex might disturb performance. - For now it just traces instants or spans on the current thread. There are other things that make sense to show (cross-thread flows, non-thread resources such as ASTs). But we have to start somewhere. Reviewers: ioeric, ilya-biryukov Subscribers: cfe-commits, mgorny Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39086 llvm-svn: 317193
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