DroidPerf

DroidPerf is a lightweight, object-centric memory profiler for Android Runtime(ART), which associates memory inefficiencies with objects used by Android apps. With such object-level information, DroidPerf is able to guide locality optimization on memory layouts, access patterns, and allocation patterns.

Contents

• DroidPerf
  • Contents
  • Installation
    • Requirements
    • Build and Installation
  • Usage
    • Requirements
    • Profiling
  • Support Platforms
  • License
  • Related Publications

Installation

Requirements

• gcc (>= 4.8)
• cmake (>= 3.4)
• Android SDK (>= 33)
• Android NDK (>= 21)

Build and Installation

Follow these steps to build and install DroidPerf:

1. Clone this repository to your local machine.
2. Run the shell script file build.sh to implement cross-compilation. The first argument is the path of the NDK, and the second argument is the architecture of the Android device. The command could be like:

sh build.sh ~/Library/Android/sdk/ndk/21.1.6352462 "arm64-v8a"

Usage

Requirements

• Android device
• Root privileges of this device

Profiling

To use DroidPerf, follow these steps:

1. Connect your Android device to your computer using a USB cable.
2. Install and run the application you want to profile on your Android device.
3. Open a terminal or command prompt on your computer and navigate to the directory where libdroidperf.so is located.
4. Run the following commands after modifying the variables:

adb push libdroidperf.so /sdcard/Download

adb shell

su

PATH_APP="PATH/OF/APPLICATION"  # Path of the application like "/data/data/org.jak_linux.dns66"
PID_TARGET="PROCESS/ID/OF/APPLICATION"  # Process ID of corresponding application

cp /sdcard/Download/libdroidperf.so $PATH_APP

rm -f /sdcard/Documents/*.run*

chmod 777 $PATH_APP/libdroidperf.so

cmd activity attach-agent $PID_TARGET $PATH_APP/libdroidperf.so=Generic::CYCLES:precise=2@100000000

Support Platforms

DroidPerf is evaluated on a Google Pixel 7 with the Google Tensor G2 chipset. It has eight Octa-core cores and an Mali-G710 MP7 GPU, with 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128 GB of non-expandable UFS 3.1 internal storage. The cache hierarchy consists of 128 KB and 512 KB L1 and L2 caches and a 4 MB L3 cache.

License

DroidPerf is released under the MIT License.

Related Publications