[webkit-dev] Instrumenting JavaScriptCore

[Mark Lam]

Erick,

If your instrumentation is not performance critical, you might be interested in using the llint C++ backend.  To use that:

1. in WTF/wtf/Platform.h (or equivalent), #define ENABLE_JIT 0, and #define ENABLE_LLINT 1.  This will allow you to build for the C++ llint which generates C++ code.

2. Look at Source/JavaScriptCore/llint/LowLevelInterpreter.cpp.  In there, you'll fine macros that implements interpreter labels including one for each bytecode opcode.  You can modify that for your experiments.

3. Look in Source/JavaScriptCore/offlineasm/instructions.rb for the cloopDo instruction.  You can add this instruction to the llint asm code to insert instrumentation to your liking. e.g.

    cloopDo // printf("I just added a printf\n");

    This embeds the code after the // in the generated llint interpreter (see the generated LLIntAssembly.h). 

Hope that helps.  And yes, the old interpreter is no longer available.

Regards,
Mark


On Nov 12, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Erick Lavoie <erick.lavoie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A research team instrumented JavaScriptCore in 2010 to gather empirical data about the dynamic behavior of JavaScript [1]. I am currently wondering how easy it would be to replicate their setup using the latest WebKit release.
> 
> I noticed, in the latest release, that either the JIT or the Low-level Interpreter must be enabled for the build to succeed. Does that mean that the previous interpreter is not available anymore? If it is still available, is there a way to use only the old interpreter, without the JIT or the LLInt?
> 
> Also, I would like an opinion from one of the dev guy on how easy it would be to add instrumentation code for every bytecode in the new Low-level Interpreter, given that some part of it are now written in an assembler dialect.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Erick
> 
> [1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1806598
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