History log of /frameworks/base/services/java/com/android/server/am/ContentProviderConnection.java
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be4e6aaa0252dd7da28b7aa85beba982538efa46 07-Jun-2013 Dianne Hackborn <hackbod@google.com> Initial super-primitive process tracker.

The goal of this is to keep track of what app processes
are doing, to determine who is being abusive, when the system
is getting into memory constrained situations, and help the
user determine how to resolve this.

Right now it doesn't really do any of that, just keeps track
of how long every process has been running since boot.

Also update the activity manager to use "cached" as the terminology
for what it used to interchangeably call hidden and background
processes, and switch ProcessMap over to using ArrayMap.

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d9137ca87eba9fb1d6a49440691374c48bac0d50 31-May-2012 Dianne Hackborn <hackbod@google.com> Add time stamp to content provider connection.

For help in tracking down memory use issues, seeing how long
a connection has been held that is keeping other processes around.

Let's call this for issue #6577613: Unbelievably sluggish nexus-S

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6ae8d1821822296df0606c9cd1c46708cc21cb58 23-May-2012 Dianne Hackborn <hackbod@google.com> Fix (mostly) issue #5109947: Race condition between retrieving a...

...content provider and updating its oom adj

This introduces the concept of an "unstable" reference on a content
provider. When holding such a reference (and no normal stable ref),
the content provider dying will not cause the client process to be
killed.

This is used in ContentResolver.query(), .openAssetFileDescriptor(),
and .openTypedAssetFileDescriptor() to first access the provider
with an unstable reference, and if at the point of calling into the
provider we find it is dead then acquiring a new stable reference
and doing the operation again. Thus if the provider process dies
at any point until we get the result back, our own process will not
be killed and we can safely retry the operation.

Arguably there is still the potential for a race -- if somehow the
provider is killed way late by the OOM killer after the query or
open has returned -- but this should now be *extremely* unlikely.
We also continue to have the issue with the other calls, but these
are much less critical, and the same model can't be used there (we
wouldn't want to execute two insert operations for example).

The implementation of this required some significant changes to the
underlying plumbing of content providers, now keeping track of the
two different reference counts, and managing them appropriately. To
facilitate this, the activity manager now has a formal connection
object for a client reference on a content provider, which hands to
the application when opening the provider.

These changes have allowed a lot of the code to be cleaned up and
subtle issues closed. For example, when a process is crashing, we
now have a much better idea of the state of content provider clients
(olding a stable ref, unstable ref, or waiting for it to launch), so
that we can correctly handle each of these.

The client side code is also a fair amount cleaner, though in the
future there is more than should be done. In particular, the two
ProviderClientRecord and ProviderRefCount classes should be combined
into one, part of which is exposed to the ContentResolver internal
API as a reference on a content provider with methods for updating
reference counts and such. Some day we'll do that.

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