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Inter-process communication of Android
The document discusses various inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms in Android, including intents, binder transactions, AIDL interfaces, ashmem shared memory, and system properties. It provides code examples and describes how these IPC methods allow processes to communicate and share data.
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Inter-process communication of Android
- 1. Inter-process communication ofAndroid Tetsuyuki Kobayashi 2011.6.3 updated
- 2. Who am I?20+ years involved in embedded systems 10 years in real time OS, such as iTRON
- 3. 10 years inembedded Java Virtual Machine
- 4. Now GCC, Linux,QEMU, Android, … Blogs http://d.hatena.ne.jp/embedded/ (Personal)
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- 7. Today's topic Interprocess communications in Android
- 8. Inter process methodinvocation using Binder
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- 11. Processes running onAndroid $ ps ... root 37 1 248 156 c00aef2c 0000875c S /sbin/ueventd system 42 1 768 260 c022950c afd0b6fc S /system/bin/servicemanager root 43 1 3824 564 ffffffff afd0bdac S /system/bin/vold root 44 1 3796 560 ffffffff afd0bdac S /system/bin/netd root 45 1 628 264 c02588c0 afd0c0cc S /system/bin/debuggerd radio 46 1 4336 672 ffffffff afd0bdac S /system/bin/rild root 47 1 62224 27576 c00aef2c afd0b844 S zygote media 48 1 16828 3736 ffffffff afd0b6fc S /system/bin/mediaserver bluetooth 49 1 1216 572 c00aef2c afd0c59c S /system/bin/dbus-daemon root 50 1 776 316 c02a8424 afd0b45c S /system/bin/installd keystore 51 1 1704 432 c02588c0 afd0c0cc S /system/bin/keystore shell 52 1 696 336 c0050934 afd0c3ac S /system/bin/sh root 53 1 3356 160 ffffffff 00008294 S /sbin/adbd system 67 47 172464 32596 ffffffff afd0b6fc S system_server system 115 47 80028 20728 ffffffff afd0c51c S com.android.systemui app_24 124 47 80732 20720 ffffffff afd0c51c S com.android.inputmethod.latin radio 135 47 87848 20324 ffffffff afd0c51c S com.android.phone app_18 144 47 89136 24160 ffffffff afd0c51c S com.android.launcher app_7 165 47 86136 22736 ffffffff afd0c51c S android.process.acore app_0 197 47 73996 17472 ffffffff afd0c51c S com.android.deskclock app_14 208 47 75000 18464 ffffffff afd0c51c S android.process.media app_3 219 47 72228 17652 ffffffff afd0c51c S com.android.bluetooth app_25 234 47 85336 17836 ffffffff afd0c51c S com.android.mms app_26 254 47 74656 19080 ffffffff afd0c51c S com.android.email app_27 266 47 74912 18100 ffffffff afd0c51c S com.android.providers.calendar app_1 285 47 71616 16280 ffffffff afd0c51c S com.android.protips app_19 293 47 72184 16572 ffffffff afd0c51c S com.android.music app_21 301 47 74728 17208 ffffffff afd0c51c S com.android.quicksearchbox app_28 311 47 75408 18040 ffffffff afd0c51c S com.cooliris.media shell 323 52 856 316 00000000 afd0b45c R ps $ More than 30 processes (200+ threads).
- 12. Kernel Inter ProcessCommunication
- 13. Abstraction of InterProcess Communication Binder AIDL Intent More abstract
- 14. Inter Process Communicationof Android Intent The highest level abstraction Inter process method invocation AIDL: Android Interface Definition Language binder kernel driver ashmem shared memory
- 15. Intent (1) Thehighest level abstraction IPC in Android
- 16. Requests are queuedand handled sequentially.
- 17. Powerful enough betweenapplications
- 18. Implemented using interprocess method invocation
- 19. Intent (2) Looselycoupling The sender need not choose the receiver
- 20. The sender canspecify ”action”. Then proper receiver is chosen and handles it. VIEW + http://... -> Browser opens the url.
- 21. VIEW + geo:0,0?q=Tokyo-> Map app shows a map of Tokyo.
- 22. CALL + tel:01234567-> Phone app dials the number.
- 23. Inter process methodinvocation used for system services
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- 25. wrapped by AIDLto hide complexity
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- 27. Invoking method viainterface In the same process
- 28. Inter-process invocation interfaceinterface interface How?
- 29. Inter-process invocation BinderThread interface interface interface
- 30. android.os.Parcel ” flatten”” unflatten” transmit Delivering arguments of method
- 31. Describing in UML... implements
- 32. Describing in UML... calls implements extends
- 33. AIDL Auto generatedfrom .aidl file
- 34. Kernel Use case:Who calls ”onPause” in Activity? Activity queue 3:”onPause” is called in main thread 1:Call ”schedulePauseActivity” across process 2:Send message by Handler
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- 36. Not for generalpurpose. Tuned for specific transaction.
- 37. Multi-thread aware Haveinternal status per thead
- 38. (CF. Socket haveinternal status per fd.)
- 39. Comparing binder withsocket socket binder internal status associated to FD associated to PID (FD can be shared among threads in the same process) read & write operation as a stream done at once by ”ioctl” network transparency Yes No expects local only
- 40. Transaction of Binder(1) if ( ioctl (fd, BINDER_WRITE_READ, &bwt ) >= 0) err = NO_ERROR; else err = -errno; write_size write_consumed write_buffer read_size read_consumed read_buffer binder_write_read
- 41. Transaction of Binder(2) Process A Process B Binder Process A Binder Process B Copy memory by copy_from _user Copy memory by copy_to_user Then, wake up process B Process A and B have different memory space. They can not see each other. Kernel Kernel
- 42. Ashmem Android /Anonymous SHared MEMory subsystem $(ANDROID_TOP)/system/core/cutils/ashmem.h int ashmem_create_region(const char *name, size_t size) -> returns fd
- 43. int ashmem_set_prot_region(int fd,int prot)
- 44. int ashmem_pin_region(int fd,size_t offset, size_t len)
- 45. int ashmem_unpin_region(int fd,size_t offset, size_t len) kernel reclaim not ‘pin’ ed memory
- 46. Similar to weakreference of Java. useful to implement cache.
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- 48. System Properties ofAndroid 'Key-Value store' type data base for basic system information.
- 49. Shared among allprocesses.
- 50. Init process hasthe master data.
- 51. The other processeshave read-only copy.
- 52. Init process handleswrite request to the master data.
- 53. implemented using ashmembefore Gingerbread.
- 54. At Gingerbread changednot to use ashmem.
- 55. Example of SystemProperties ... [ro.bt.bdaddr_path]: [/sys/module/board_mahimahi/parameters/bdaddr] [ro.ril.def.agps.mode]: [2] [ro.ril.fast.dormancy.rule]: [1] [ro.ril.fd.scron.timeout]: [4] [ro.ril.fd.scroff.timeout]: [3] [ro.ril.gprsclass]: [10] [init.svc.adbd]: [running] [ril.reload.count]: [1] [init.svc.bootanim]: [stopped] [hw.keyboards.0.devname]: [mahimahi-keypad] [hw.keyboards.65537.devname]: [mahimahi-keypad] [hw.keyboards.131075.devname]: [h2w headset] [net.hostname]: [android_200142d4dfd0d25c] [dev.bootcomplete]: [1] [gsm.version.ril-impl]: [HTC-RIL 2.2.1001G (Jul 16 2010,21:52:13)] [gsm.sim.operator.numeric]: [] [gsm.sim.operator.alpha]: [] [gsm.sim.operator.iso-country]: [] [gsm.sim.state]: [ABSENT] [gsm.current.phone-type]: [1] [wlan.driver.status]: [ok] [init.svc.wpa_supplicant]: [running] ...
- 56. Special Key ofSystem Properties Starts from ”ro.” is read-only.
- 57. ” ctl.start” / ”ctl.stop” is command to start/stop the service. property_set("ctl.stop", "bootanim"); stops boot animation service Starts from ”init.svc.” shows the state of the service.
- 58. Reading System PropertyKernel init Other processes /dev/__properties__ (on tmpfs) mmap (read/write) mmap (read only) Just read the property in each process.
- 59. Writing System PropertyKernel init Other processes /dev/__properties__ (on tmpfs) mmap (read/write) mmap (read only) Send write request to init through socket
- 60. Actual code ofinitialize System Properties fd = open ("/dev/__properties__", O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0600); if (fd < 0) return -1; if ( ftruncate (fd, size) < 0) goto out; data = mmap (NULL, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); if(data == MAP_FAILED) goto out; close (fd); fd = open ("/dev/__properties__", O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) return -1; unlink ("/dev/__properties__"); $(ANDROID_TOP)/system/core/init/property_service.c Give this fd to other processes. No longer access by file name. /dev is a tmpfs
- 61. Resources 3 rd session of Yokohama Android Platform club http://www.yokohama.android-pf.org/study/dai-san-kai-benkyou-kai 1 st session of Android SDK work group http://www.android-group.jp/index.php?%CA%D9%B6%AF%B2%F1%2FAndroid ... KMC blog http://blog.kmckk.com/archives/3611344.html
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