protos/perfetto/trace/ps/process_tree.proto

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syntax = "proto2";
package perfetto.protos;

// Metadata about the processes and threads in the trace.
// Note: this proto was designed to be filled in by traced_probes and should
// only be populated with accurate information coming from the system. Other
// trace writers should prefer to fill ThreadDescriptor and ProcessDescriptor
// in TrackDescriptor.
message ProcessTree {
  // Representation of a thread.
  message Thread {
    // The thread ID (as per gettid()) in the root PID namespace.
    optional int32 tid = 1;

    // Thread group id (i.e. the PID of the process, == TID of the main thread)
    optional int32 tgid = 3;

    // The name of the thread.
    optional string name = 2;

    // The non-root-level thread IDs if the thread runs in a PID namespace. Read
    // from the NSpid entry of /proc/<tid>/status, with the first element (root-
    // level thread ID) omitted.
    repeated int32 nstid = 4;
  }

  // Representation of a process.
  message Process {
    // The UNIX process ID, aka thread group ID (as per getpid()) in the root
    // PID namespace.
    optional int32 pid = 1;

    // The parent process ID, as per getppid().
    optional int32 ppid = 2;

    // The command line for the process, as per /proc/pid/cmdline.
    // If it is a kernel thread there will only be one cmdline field
    // and it will contain /proc/pid/comm.
    repeated string cmdline = 3;

    // The uid for the process, as per /proc/pid/status.
    optional int32 uid = 5;

    // The non-root-level process IDs if the process runs in a PID namespace.
    // Read from the NSpid entry of /proc/<pid>/status, with the first element
    // (root-level process ID) omitted.
    repeated int32 nspid = 6;

    // Timestamp of when the process was created, in nanoseconds
    // from boot. Parsed from starttime in /proc/pid/stat.
    // Recorded if record_process_age config option is set.
    // Resolution of "clock ticks", usually 10ms.
    optional uint64 process_start_from_boot = 7;

    // threads_deprecated
    reserved 4;
  }

  // List of processes and threads in the client. These lists are incremental
  // and not exhaustive. A process and its threads might show up separately in
  // different ProcessTree messages. A thread might event not show up at all, if
  // no sched_switch activity was detected, for instance:
  // #0 { processes: [{pid: 10, ...}], threads: [{pid: 11, tgid: 10}] }
  // #1 { threads: [{pid: 12, tgid: 10}] }
  // #2 { processes: [{pid: 20, ...}], threads: [{pid: 13, tgid: 10}] }
  repeated Process processes = 1;
  repeated Thread threads = 2;

  // The time at which we finish collecting this process tree;
  // the top-level packet timestamp is the time at which
  // we begin collection.
  optional uint64 collection_end_timestamp = 3;
}