Titrace is a bytecode instruction tracing tool that uses JVMTI and works on both ART and the RI.
m libtitrace
# or 'm libtitraced' with debugging checks enabled
The libraries will be built for 32-bit, 64-bit, host and target. Below examples assume you want to use the 64-bit version.
art -Xplugin:$ANDROID_HOST_OUT/lib64/libopenjdkjvmti.so -agentpath:$ANDROID_HOST_OUT/lib64/libtitrace.so -cp tmp/java/helloworld.dex -Xint helloworld
-Xplugin
and -agentpath
need to be used, otherwise libtitrace agent will fail during init.libartd.so
, make sure to use the debug version of jvmti.
java -agentpath:$ANDROID_HOST_OUT/lib64/libtitrace.so helloworld
Only needs -agentpath
to be specified.
Replace com.littleinc.orm_benchmark with the name of your application below.
Normal applications require that debuggable=true
to be set in their AndroidManifest.xml.
By using a eng or userdebug build of Android, we can override this requirement:
adb root
adb shell setprop dalvik.vm.dex2oat-flags --debuggable
Then restart the runtime to pick it up.
adb shell stop && adb shell start
If this step is skipped, attaching the agent will not succeed.
The agent must be located in an app-accessible directory.
adb push $ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT/system/lib64/libtitrace.so /data/local/tmp
Upload to device first (it gets shell/root permissions).
adb shell run-as com.littleinc.orm_benchmark 'cp /data/local/tmp/libtitrace.so /data/data/com.littleinc.orm_benchmark/files/libtitrace.so'
Copy the agent into an app-accessible directory, and make the file owned by the app.
adb shell am start --attach-agent /data/data/com.littleinc.orm_benchmark/files/libtitrace.so com.littleinc.orm_benchmark/.MainActivity
Note: To determine the arguments to am start
, launch the application manually first and then look for this in logcat:
09-14 13:28:08.680 7584 8192 I ActivityManager: Start proc 17614:com.littleinc.orm_benchmark/u0a138 for activity com.littleinc.orm_benchmark/.MainActivity
adb shell am attach-agent $(pid com.littleinc.orm_benchmark) /data/data/com.littleinc.orm_benchmark/files/libtitrace.so
All statitics gathered during the trace are printed automatically when the program normally exists. In the case of Android applications, they are always killed, so we need to manually print the results.
kill -SIGQUIT $(pid com.littleinc.orm_benchmark)
Will initiate a dump of the agent (to logcat).