unlock

Helpers for tracing and troubleshooting multithreaded code.

Usage

Import RwLock and Mutex from this crate instead of parking_lot directly.

After this, you can instrument a section of code like this:

let condition = true;

if condition {
    unlock::capture();
}

/* do some work */

if condition {
    let events = unlock::drain();
    unlock::html::write("trace.html", &events)?;
    println!("Wrote trace.html");
}

How does it work

This library provides two facade types:

• RwLock
• Mutex

These integrate with a high performance concurrent tracing system to capture events. While this will have some overhead, we aim to make it as small as possible.

Once a workload has been instrumented, the drain function can be called to collect these events, which then can be formatted using either built-in methods such as html::write, or serialized as you please using serde for processing later.

Features

• trace - Enable real tracing support. If this feature is disabled, this library will be replaced by a stub that can easily be optimized away.
• parking_lot (default) - Enable support for parking_lot types. If this feature is enabled and trace is disabled, this will re-export parking_lot primitives.
• serde - Enable serialization for events.