TaskTracer

Introduction

TaskTracer aims at the correlation between Tasks and Runnables, across threads and processes.

By looking at a task, TaskTracer tells you:

• The “source events” of this task.
  • IO events: touch events, key events, wifi daemon signal
• Where it is dispatched from.

Reference links

• bug 908995 - [B2G] Task tracer
  • https://github.com/shellylin/gecko-dev/tree/tt-v4
• bug 916409 - Data retriever for task tracer
• bug 956620 - [B2G] Task tracer converter
  • https://github.com/ginayeh/task-tracer-converter
• Isis
  • http://alivedise.github.io/isis/
  • https://github.com/alivedise/isis/tree/gh-pages

TODO

• Integrate with built-in profiler.