android Systrace

Systrace

Systrace (http://developer.android.com/tools/help/systrace.html) can be
used for obtaining performance analysis reports during boot
time on userdebug or eng builds.

Here is an example of trace events of “wm” and “am” categories:

$ANDROID_BUILD_TOP/external/chromium-trace/systrace.py \
      wm am --boot

This command will cause the device to reboot. After the device is rebooted and
the boot sequence has finished, the trace report is obtained from the device
and written as trace.html on the host by hitting Ctrl+C.

Limitation: recording trace events is started after persistent properties are loaded, so
the trace events that are emitted before that are not recorded. Several
services such as vold, surfaceflinger, and servicemanager are affected by this
limitation since they are started before persistent properties are loaded.
Zygote initialization and the processes that are forked from the zygote are not
affected.