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      1 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 // This is a glue file, which allows third party code to call into our profiler
      6 // without having to include most any functions from base.
      7 
      8 #ifndef BASE_PROFILER_ALTERNATE_TIMER_H_
      9 #define BASE_PROFILER_ALTERNATE_TIMER_H_
     10 
     11 #include "base/base_export.h"
     12 
     13 namespace tracked_objects {
     14 
     15 enum TimeSourceType {
     16   TIME_SOURCE_TYPE_WALL_TIME,
     17   TIME_SOURCE_TYPE_TCMALLOC
     18 };
     19 
     20 // Provide type for an alternate timer function.
     21 typedef unsigned int NowFunction();
     22 
     23 // Environment variable name that is used to activate alternate timer profiling
     24 // (such as using TCMalloc allocations to provide a pseudo-timer) for tasks
     25 // instead of wall clock profiling.
     26 BASE_EXPORT extern const char kAlternateProfilerTime[];
     27 
     28 // Set an alternate timer function to replace the OS time function when
     29 // profiling.  Typically this is called by an allocator that is providing a
     30 // function that indicates how much memory has been allocated on any given
     31 // thread.
     32 BASE_EXPORT void SetAlternateTimeSource(NowFunction* now_function,
     33                                         TimeSourceType type);
     34 
     35 // Gets the pointer to a function that was set via SetAlternateTimeSource().
     36 // Returns NULL if no set was done prior to calling GetAlternateTimeSource.
     37 NowFunction* GetAlternateTimeSource();
     38 
     39 // Returns the type of the currently set time source.
     40 BASE_EXPORT TimeSourceType GetTimeSourceType();
     41 
     42 }  // namespace tracked_objects
     43 
     44 #endif  // BASE_PROFILER_ALTERNATE_TIMER_H_
     45