The steps involved in setting up profiling and stack unwinding are
described in detail at go/perfetto-perf-android.
To summarize the interesting case: the daemon uses cpu-wide
perf_event_open, with userspace stack and register sampling on. For each
sample, it identifies whether the process is profileable, and obtains
the FDs for /proc/[pid]/{maps,mem} using a dedicated RT signal (with the
bionic signal handler handing over the FDs over a dedicated socket). It
then uses libunwindstack to unwind & symbolize the stacks, sending the
results to the central tracing daemon (traced).
This patch covers the app profiling use-cases. Splitting out the
"profile most things on debug builds" into a separate patch for easier
review.
Most of the exceptions in domain.te & coredomain.te come from the
"vendor_file_type" allow-rule. We want a subset of that (effectively all
libraries/executables), but I believe that in practice it's hard to use
just the specific subtypes, and we're better off allowing access to all
vendor_file_type files.
Bug: 137092007
Change-Id: I4aa482cfb3f9fb2fabf02e1dff92e2b5ce121a47
