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Lecture 10

Debugging / profiling

WiFi / Bluetooth / RIL

yegor.yelizarov(at)gmail.com

http://vk.com/android_internalsRev: 1.1Last update: 06/01/2012

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Previous time

Suspend/Resume process

Android PM main components

Android Input subsystem

*.kl, *.kcm, *.idc configuration files

Sensor subsystem

Input noise reduction approaches

Android data storage

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Useful host/target configuration

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Debugging/profiling agenda

Very good presentation about debugging & profiling by Tim Bird

Most popular approaches

Tools covered by Tim in brief

Few words about not covered approaches

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Debugging approaches

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Logging

logcat – obtaining android log– For both C/C++ (LOGE) & Java (Log.e) code

– Have rich formatting options

dmesg – obtatining kernel log– printk()

– Extra logs from userspace through /dev/kmsg

Stdio redirection– For both Java (log.redirect-stdio) & Native (xargs) code

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GNU debugger (gdb)

DDD can be used as graphic backend

On target $ gdbserver :1234 --attach pid Or $gdbserver :1234 /system/bin/app

● On host $ adb forward tcp:1234 tcp:1234 && gdbclient app :1234 app Or $ arm-eabi-gdb # file ./out/target/product/generic/symbols/system/bin/app_process # set solib-search-path

./out/target/product/generic/symbols/system/lib # target remote target_ip:1234

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Google debuggers

Fastboot– Protocol & tool to communicate with host over USB

– Install images, erase partitions, booting from host

– Supported in UBoot

ADB

– Remote shell, install, file copy, etc.

– Work over Network/USB

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Tracing & dumping

Strace– Shows system calls for a process (or set of processes)

Dalvik Debug Monitor Servic (DDMS)– Integrated into Eclipse

– Provides port-forwarding services, screen capture on the device, thread and heap information on the device, logcat and much more

Dumpsys / Dumpstate– Dumps huge amounts of information about the system, including

status, counts and statistics

– Dumpsys show status information from Android service

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Virtual Network Computing

VNC - Graphical desktop sharing system

Transmits input events from host to target

Transmits screen updates from target to host

On target– androidvncserver &

On host– vncviewer target_ip:5901

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Profiling approaches

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CPU and memory statistics

Common profiling workflow

Smem– Analyze of system-wide memory usage

OProfile– CPU usage statistic for both kernel & userspace

– Monitors execution point periodically

– Should be enabled in kernel

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Tracing

Bootchart– Analyze system booting process

– init should be recompiled to add Bootchart support

TraceView– Java methods tracing

– Can be used with DDMS

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Benchmarks

Rowboat bench– Set of benchmarks for CPU, 2D, 3D, etc.

– Developed by Rowboat team

0xbench– Another set of benchmarks

– Developed by 0xlab team

Lots of benchmarks in Google Play

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Linux Trace Toolkit next generation

Work for both kernel and userspace

Useful to debug threads and processes

Allow to trace only some events

Allow userspace events (/mnt/debugfs/ltt/write_event)

Kernel patches + ltt-control + ltt-viewer

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Add LTTng support to Android

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Different tricks

Activity Manager - control applications– am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n

com.android.camera/com.android.camera.Camera &

input keyevent X – send keyboard events

sendevent – send touch events

setprop/getprop - control system properties

sqlite - access database

start/stop - restart whole system

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WiFi in Android

Supports IEEE 802.11 abgn

Supports both IPv4 and IPv6

Based on customized wpa_supplicant

Wifi drivers compiled as modules (Wifi HAL can changed to support built-in drivers)

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Wifi subsystem

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Porting Wifi driver

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Bluetooth in Android

Bluetooth is covered by IEEE 802.15.1

Android BT is based on the BlueZ stack

Android provides subset of BlueZ functionality

Android supports point-to-point and multiple-point connections

Supports maximum 9 simultaneous connections

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Bluetooth workflow

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Bluetooth subsystem

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RIL in Android

Most devices have separate Radio Frequency module for signal strength measurement etc.

Modem often have own CPU with running OS (Ex: Mentor Nucleus)

Usually have firmware

Often kernel interface to these devices is PPP

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RIL subsystem

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Next Time

Exam

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Useful links

http://vk.com/android_internals

http://elinux.org/images/c/c9/Android-tips-and-tricks-2010-10.pdf

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/debugging/index.html

http://source.android.com/tech/debugging/native-memory.html

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/debugging/ddms.html

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Useful links (2)

http://code.google.com/p/android-vnc-server/wiki/README

http://softteco.blogspot.com/2011/03/android-low-level-shell-click-on-screen.html

http://lttng.org/

http://softteco.blogspot.com/2011/03/android-low-level-shell-click-on-screen.html

http://www.kandroid.org/online-pdk/guide/telephony.html

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Thanks to

Sergey Matyukevich for review and advices (www.linkedin.com/pub/sergey-matyukevich/31/889/769)

Nikolay F. Fominykh for review and advices

Vladimir Barinov for review and advices (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vladimir-barinov/2a/18a/bab)