xref: /external/libchrome/base/metrics/field_trial.h

// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

// FieldTrial is a class for handling details of statistical experiments
// performed by actual users in the field (i.e., in a shipped or beta product).
// All code is called exclusively on the UI thread currently.
//
// The simplest example is an experiment to see whether one of two options
// produces "better" results across our user population.  In that scenario, UMA
// data is uploaded to aggregate the test results, and this FieldTrial class
// manages the state of each such experiment (state == which option was
// pseudo-randomly selected).
//
// States are typically generated randomly, either based on a one time
// randomization (which will yield the same results, in terms of selecting
// the client for a field trial or not, for every run of the program on a
// given machine), or by a session randomization (generated each time the
// application starts up, but held constant during the duration of the
// process).

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Example:  Suppose we have an experiment involving memory, such as determining
// the impact of some pruning algorithm.
// We assume that we already have a histogram of memory usage, such as:

//   UMA_HISTOGRAM_COUNTS("Memory.RendererTotal", count);

// Somewhere in main thread initialization code, we'd probably define an
// instance of a FieldTrial, with code such as:

// // FieldTrials are reference counted, and persist automagically until
// // process teardown, courtesy of their automatic registration in
// // FieldTrialList.
// // Note: This field trial will run in Chrome instances compiled through
// //       8 July, 2015, and after that all instances will be in "StandardMem".
// scoped_refptr<base::FieldTrial> trial(
//     base::FieldTrialList::FactoryGetFieldTrial(
//         "MemoryExperiment", 1000, "StandardMem", 2015, 7, 8,
//         base::FieldTrial::ONE_TIME_RANDOMIZED, NULL));
//
// const int high_mem_group =
//     trial->AppendGroup("HighMem", 20);  // 2% in HighMem group.
// const int low_mem_group =
//     trial->AppendGroup("LowMem", 20);   // 2% in LowMem group.
// // Take action depending of which group we randomly land in.
// if (trial->group() == high_mem_group)
//   SetPruningAlgorithm(kType1);  // Sample setting of browser state.
// else if (trial->group() == low_mem_group)
//   SetPruningAlgorithm(kType2);  // Sample alternate setting.

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#ifndef BASE_METRICS_FIELD_TRIAL_H_
#define BASE_METRICS_FIELD_TRIAL_H_

#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>

#include <map>
#include <memory>
#include <set>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

#include "base/atomicops.h"
#include "base/base_export.h"
#include "base/command_line.h"
#include "base/feature_list.h"
#include "base/files/file.h"
#include "base/gtest_prod_util.h"
#include "base/macros.h"
#include "base/memory/ref_counted.h"
#include "base/memory/shared_memory.h"
#include "base/memory/shared_memory_handle.h"
#include "base/metrics/persistent_memory_allocator.h"
#include "base/observer_list_threadsafe.h"
#include "base/pickle.h"
#include "base/process/launch.h"
#include "base/strings/string_piece.h"
#include "base/synchronization/lock.h"
#include "base/time/time.h"
#include "build/build_config.h"

namespace base {

class FieldTrialList;

class BASE_EXPORT FieldTrial : public RefCounted<FieldTrial> {
 public:
  typedef int Probability;  // Probability type for being selected in a trial.

  // TODO(665129): Make private again after crash has been resolved.
  typedef SharedPersistentMemoryAllocator::Reference FieldTrialRef;

  // Specifies the persistence of the field trial group choice.
  enum RandomizationType {
    // One time randomized trials will persist the group choice between
    // restarts, which is recommended for most trials, especially those that
    // change user visible behavior.
    ONE_TIME_RANDOMIZED,
    // Session randomized trials will roll the dice to select a group on every
    // process restart.
    SESSION_RANDOMIZED,
  };

  // EntropyProvider is an interface for providing entropy for one-time
  // randomized (persistent) field trials.
  class BASE_EXPORT EntropyProvider {
   public:
    virtual ~EntropyProvider();

    // Returns a double in the range of [0, 1) to be used for the dice roll for
    // the specified field trial. If |randomization_seed| is not 0, it will be
    // used in preference to |trial_name| for generating the entropy by entropy
    // providers that support it. A given instance should always return the same
    // value given the same input |trial_name| and |randomization_seed| values.
    virtual double GetEntropyForTrial(const std::string& trial_name,
                                      uint32_t randomization_seed) const = 0;
  };

  // A pair representing a Field Trial and its selected group.
  struct ActiveGroup {
    std::string trial_name;
    std::string group_name;
  };

  // A triplet representing a FieldTrial, its selected group and whether it's
  // active. String members are pointers to the underlying strings owned by the
  // FieldTrial object. Does not use StringPiece to avoid conversions back to
  // std::string.
  struct BASE_EXPORT State {
    const std::string* trial_name = nullptr;
    const std::string* group_name = nullptr;
    bool activated = false;

    State();
    State(const State& other);
    ~State();
  };

  // We create one FieldTrialEntry per field trial in shared memory, via
  // AddToAllocatorWhileLocked. The FieldTrialEntry is followed by a
  // base::Pickle object that we unpickle and read from.
  struct BASE_EXPORT FieldTrialEntry {
    // SHA1(FieldTrialEntry): Increment this if structure changes!
    static constexpr uint32_t kPersistentTypeId = 0xABA17E13 + 2;

    // Expected size for 32/64-bit check.
    static constexpr size_t kExpectedInstanceSize = 8;

    // Whether or not this field trial is activated. This is really just a
    // boolean but using a 32 bit value for portability reasons. It should be
    // accessed via NoBarrier_Load()/NoBarrier_Store() to prevent the compiler
    // from doing unexpected optimizations because it thinks that only one
    // thread is accessing the memory location.
    subtle::Atomic32 activated;

    // Size of the pickled structure, NOT the total size of this entry.
    uint32_t pickle_size;

    // Calling this is only valid when the entry is initialized. That is, it
    // resides in shared memory and has a pickle containing the trial name and
    // group name following it.
    bool GetTrialAndGroupName(StringPiece* trial_name,
                              StringPiece* group_name) const;

    // Calling this is only valid when the entry is initialized as well. Reads
    // the parameters following the trial and group name and stores them as
    // key-value mappings in |params|.
    bool GetParams(std::map<std::string, std::string>* params) const;

   private:
    // Returns an iterator over the data containing names and params.
    PickleIterator GetPickleIterator() const;

    // Takes the iterator and writes out the first two items into |trial_name|
    // and |group_name|.
    bool ReadStringPair(PickleIterator* iter,
                        StringPiece* trial_name,
                        StringPiece* group_name) const;
  };

  typedef std::vector<ActiveGroup> ActiveGroups;

  // A return value to indicate that a given instance has not yet had a group
  // assignment (and hence is not yet participating in the trial).
  static const int kNotFinalized;

  // Disables this trial, meaning it always determines the default group
  // has been selected. May be called immediately after construction, or
  // at any time after initialization (should not be interleaved with
  // AppendGroup calls). Once disabled, there is no way to re-enable a
  // trial.
  // TODO(mad): http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=121446
  // This doesn't properly reset to Default when a group was forced.
  void Disable();

  // Establish the name and probability of the next group in this trial.
  // Sometimes, based on construction randomization, this call may cause the
  // provided group to be *THE* group selected for use in this instance.
  // The return value is the group number of the new group.
  int AppendGroup(const std::string& name, Probability group_probability);

  // Return the name of the FieldTrial (excluding the group name).
  const std::string& trial_name() const { return trial_name_; }

  // Return the randomly selected group number that was assigned, and notify
  // any/all observers that this finalized group number has presumably been used
  // (queried), and will never change. Note that this will force an instance to
  // participate, and make it illegal to attempt to probabilistically add any
  // other groups to the trial.
  int group();

  // If the group's name is empty, a string version containing the group number
  // is used as the group name. This causes a winner to be chosen if none was.
  const std::string& group_name();

  // Finalizes the group choice and returns the chosen group, but does not mark
  // the trial as active - so its state will not be reported until group_name()
  // or similar is called.
  const std::string& GetGroupNameWithoutActivation();

  // Set the field trial as forced, meaning that it was setup earlier than
  // the hard coded registration of the field trial to override it.
  // This allows the code that was hard coded to register the field trial to
  // still succeed even though the field trial has already been registered.
  // This must be called after appending all the groups, since we will make
  // the group choice here. Note that this is a NOOP for already forced trials.
  // And, as the rest of the FieldTrial code, this is not thread safe and must
  // be done from the UI thread.
  void SetForced();

  // Enable benchmarking sets field trials to a common setting.
  static void EnableBenchmarking();

  // Creates a FieldTrial object with the specified parameters, to be used for
  // simulation of group assignment without actually affecting global field
  // trial state in the running process. Group assignment will be done based on
  // |entropy_value|, which must have a range of [0, 1).
  //
  // Note: Using this function will not register the field trial globally in the
  // running process - for that, use FieldTrialList::FactoryGetFieldTrial().
  //
  // The ownership of the returned FieldTrial is transfered to the caller which
  // is responsible for deref'ing it (e.g. by using scoped_refptr<FieldTrial>).
  static FieldTrial* CreateSimulatedFieldTrial(
      const std::string& trial_name,
      Probability total_probability,
      const std::string& default_group_name,
      double entropy_value);

 private:
  // Allow tests to access our innards for testing purposes.
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, Registration);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, AbsoluteProbabilities);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, RemainingProbability);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, FiftyFiftyProbability);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, MiddleProbabilities);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, OneWinner);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, DisableProbability);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, ActiveGroups);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, AllGroups);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, ActiveGroupsNotFinalized);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, Save);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, SaveAll);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, DuplicateRestore);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, SetForcedTurnFeatureOff);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, SetForcedTurnFeatureOn);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, SetForcedChangeDefault_Default);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, SetForcedChangeDefault_NonDefault);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, FloatBoundariesGiveEqualGroupSizes);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialTest, DoesNotSurpassTotalProbability);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialListTest,
                           DoNotAddSimulatedFieldTrialsToAllocator);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialListTest, ClearParamsFromSharedMemory);

  friend class base::FieldTrialList;

  friend class RefCounted<FieldTrial>;

  // This is the group number of the 'default' group when a choice wasn't forced
  // by a call to FieldTrialList::CreateFieldTrial. It is kept private so that
  // consumers don't use it by mistake in cases where the group was forced.
  static const int kDefaultGroupNumber;

  // Creates a field trial with the specified parameters. Group assignment will
  // be done based on |entropy_value|, which must have a range of [0, 1).
  FieldTrial(const std::string& trial_name,
             Probability total_probability,
             const std::string& default_group_name,
             double entropy_value);
  virtual ~FieldTrial();

  // Return the default group name of the FieldTrial.
  std::string default_group_name() const { return default_group_name_; }

  // Marks this trial as having been registered with the FieldTrialList. Must be
  // called no more than once and before any |group()| calls have occurred.
  void SetTrialRegistered();

  // Sets the chosen group name and number.
  void SetGroupChoice(const std::string& group_name, int number);

  // Ensures that a group is chosen, if it hasn't yet been. The field trial
  // might yet be disabled, so this call will *not* notify observers of the
  // status.
  void FinalizeGroupChoice();

  // Implements FinalizeGroupChoice() with the added flexibility of being
  // deadlock-free if |is_locked| is true and the caller is holding a lock.
  void FinalizeGroupChoiceImpl(bool is_locked);

  // Returns the trial name and selected group name for this field trial via
  // the output parameter |active_group|, but only if the group has already
  // been chosen and has been externally observed via |group()| and the trial
  // has not been disabled. In that case, true is returned and |active_group|
  // is filled in; otherwise, the result is false and |active_group| is left
  // untouched.
  bool GetActiveGroup(ActiveGroup* active_group) const;

  // Returns the trial name and selected group name for this field trial via
  // the output parameter |field_trial_state| for all the studies when
  // |bool include_expired| is true. In case when |bool include_expired| is
  // false, if the trial has not been disabled true is returned and
  // |field_trial_state| is filled in; otherwise, the result is false and
  // |field_trial_state| is left untouched.
  // This function is deadlock-free if the caller is holding a lock.
  bool GetStateWhileLocked(State* field_trial_state, bool include_expired);

  // Returns the group_name. A winner need not have been chosen.
  std::string group_name_internal() const { return group_name_; }

  // The name of the field trial, as can be found via the FieldTrialList.
  const std::string trial_name_;

  // The maximum sum of all probabilities supplied, which corresponds to 100%.
  // This is the scaling factor used to adjust supplied probabilities.
  const Probability divisor_;

  // The name of the default group.
  const std::string default_group_name_;

  // The randomly selected probability that is used to select a group (or have
  // the instance not participate).  It is the product of divisor_ and a random
  // number between [0, 1).
  Probability random_;

  // Sum of the probabilities of all appended groups.
  Probability accumulated_group_probability_;

  // The number that will be returned by the next AppendGroup() call.
  int next_group_number_;

  // The pseudo-randomly assigned group number.
  // This is kNotFinalized if no group has been assigned.
  int group_;

  // A textual name for the randomly selected group. Valid after |group()|
  // has been called.
  std::string group_name_;

  // When enable_field_trial_ is false, field trial reverts to the 'default'
  // group.
  bool enable_field_trial_;

  // When forced_ is true, we return the chosen group from AppendGroup when
  // appropriate.
  bool forced_;

  // Specifies whether the group choice has been reported to observers.
  bool group_reported_;

  // Whether this trial is registered with the global FieldTrialList and thus
  // should notify it when its group is queried.
  bool trial_registered_;

  // Reference to related field trial struct and data in shared memory.
  FieldTrialRef ref_;

  // When benchmarking is enabled, field trials all revert to the 'default'
  // group.
  static bool enable_benchmarking_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(FieldTrial);
};

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Class with a list of all active field trials.  A trial is active if it has
// been registered, which includes evaluating its state based on its probaility.
// Only one instance of this class exists and outside of testing, will live for
// the entire life time of the process.
class BASE_EXPORT FieldTrialList {
 public:
  typedef SharedPersistentMemoryAllocator FieldTrialAllocator;

  // Type for function pointer passed to |AllParamsToString| used to escape
  // special characters from |input|.
  typedef std::string (*EscapeDataFunc)(const std::string& input);

  // Year that is guaranteed to not be expired when instantiating a field trial
  // via |FactoryGetFieldTrial()|.  Set to two years from the build date.
  static int kNoExpirationYear;

  // Observer is notified when a FieldTrial's group is selected.
  class BASE_EXPORT Observer {
   public:
    // Notify observers when FieldTrials's group is selected.
    virtual void OnFieldTrialGroupFinalized(const std::string& trial_name,
                                            const std::string& group_name) = 0;

   protected:
    virtual ~Observer();
  };

  // This singleton holds the global list of registered FieldTrials.
  //
  // To support one-time randomized field trials, specify a non-null
  // |entropy_provider| which should be a source of uniformly distributed
  // entropy values. If one time randomization is not desired, pass in null for
  // |entropy_provider|.
  explicit FieldTrialList(
      std::unique_ptr<const FieldTrial::EntropyProvider> entropy_provider);

  // Destructor Release()'s references to all registered FieldTrial instances.
  ~FieldTrialList();

  // Get a FieldTrial instance from the factory.
  //
  // |name| is used to register the instance with the FieldTrialList class,
  // and can be used to find the trial (only one trial can be present for each
  // name). |default_group_name| is the name of the default group which will
  // be chosen if none of the subsequent appended groups get to be chosen.
  // |default_group_number| can receive the group number of the default group as
  // AppendGroup returns the number of the subsequence groups. |trial_name| and
  // |default_group_name| may not be empty but |default_group_number| can be
  // NULL if the value is not needed.
  //
  // Group probabilities that are later supplied must sum to less than or equal
  // to the |total_probability|. Arguments |year|, |month| and |day_of_month|
  // specify the expiration time. If the build time is after the expiration time
  // then the field trial reverts to the 'default' group.
  //
  // Use this static method to get a startup-randomized FieldTrial or a
  // previously created forced FieldTrial.
  static FieldTrial* FactoryGetFieldTrial(
      const std::string& trial_name,
      FieldTrial::Probability total_probability,
      const std::string& default_group_name,
      const int year,
      const int month,
      const int day_of_month,
      FieldTrial::RandomizationType randomization_type,
      int* default_group_number);

  // Same as FactoryGetFieldTrial(), but allows specifying a custom seed to be
  // used on one-time randomized field trials (instead of a hash of the trial
  // name, which is used otherwise or if |randomization_seed| has value 0). The
  // |randomization_seed| value (other than 0) should never be the same for two
  // trials, else this would result in correlated group assignments.  Note:
  // Using a custom randomization seed is only supported by the
  // PermutedEntropyProvider (which is used when UMA is not enabled). If
  // |override_entropy_provider| is not null, then it will be used for
  // randomization instead of the provider given when the FieldTrialList was
  // instantiated.
  static FieldTrial* FactoryGetFieldTrialWithRandomizationSeed(
      const std::string& trial_name,
      FieldTrial::Probability total_probability,
      const std::string& default_group_name,
      const int year,
      const int month,
      const int day_of_month,
      FieldTrial::RandomizationType randomization_type,
      uint32_t randomization_seed,
      int* default_group_number,
      const FieldTrial::EntropyProvider* override_entropy_provider);

  // The Find() method can be used to test to see if a named trial was already
  // registered, or to retrieve a pointer to it from the global map.
  static FieldTrial* Find(const std::string& trial_name);

  // Returns the group number chosen for the named trial, or
  // FieldTrial::kNotFinalized if the trial does not exist.
  static int FindValue(const std::string& trial_name);

  // Returns the group name chosen for the named trial, or the empty string if
  // the trial does not exist. The first call of this function on a given field
  // trial will mark it as active, so that its state will be reported with usage
  // metrics, crashes, etc.
  static std::string FindFullName(const std::string& trial_name);

  // Returns true if the named trial has been registered.
  static bool TrialExists(const std::string& trial_name);

  // Returns true if the named trial exists and has been activated.
  static bool IsTrialActive(const std::string& trial_name);

  // Creates a persistent representation of active FieldTrial instances for
  // resurrection in another process. This allows randomization to be done in
  // one process, and secondary processes can be synchronized on the result.
  // The resulting string contains the name and group name pairs of all
  // registered FieldTrials for which the group has been chosen and externally
  // observed (via |group()|) and which have not been disabled, with "/" used
  // to separate all names and to terminate the string. This string is parsed
  // by |CreateTrialsFromString()|.
  static void StatesToString(std::string* output);

  // Creates a persistent representation of all FieldTrial instances for
  // resurrection in another process. This allows randomization to be done in
  // one process, and secondary processes can be synchronized on the result.
  // The resulting string contains the name and group name pairs of all
  // registered FieldTrials including disabled based on |include_expired|,
  // with "/" used to separate all names and to terminate the string. All
  // activated trials have their name prefixed with "*". This string is parsed
  // by |CreateTrialsFromString()|.
  static void AllStatesToString(std::string* output, bool include_expired);

  // Creates a persistent representation of all FieldTrial params for
  // resurrection in another process. The returned string contains the trial
  // name and group name pairs of all registered FieldTrials including disabled
  // based on |include_expired| separated by '.'. The pair is followed by ':'
  // separator and list of param name and values separated by '/'. It also takes
  // |encode_data_func| function pointer for encodeing special charactors.
  // This string is parsed by |AssociateParamsFromString()|.
  static std::string AllParamsToString(bool include_expired,
                                       EscapeDataFunc encode_data_func);

  // Fills in the supplied vector |active_groups| (which must be empty when
  // called) with a snapshot of all registered FieldTrials for which the group
  // has been chosen and externally observed (via |group()|) and which have
  // not been disabled.
  static void GetActiveFieldTrialGroups(
      FieldTrial::ActiveGroups* active_groups);

  // Returns the field trials that are marked active in |trials_string|.
  static void GetActiveFieldTrialGroupsFromString(
      const std::string& trials_string,
      FieldTrial::ActiveGroups* active_groups);

  // Returns the field trials that were active when the process was
  // created. Either parses the field trial string or the shared memory
  // holding field trial information.
  // Must be called only after a call to CreateTrialsFromCommandLine().
  static void GetInitiallyActiveFieldTrials(
      const base::CommandLine& command_line,
      FieldTrial::ActiveGroups* active_groups);

  // Use a state string (re: StatesToString()) to augment the current list of
  // field trials to include the supplied trials, and using a 100% probability
  // for each trial, force them to have the same group string. This is commonly
  // used in a non-browser process, to carry randomly selected state in a
  // browser process into this non-browser process, but could also be invoked
  // through a command line argument to the browser process. Created field
  // trials will be marked "used" for the purposes of active trial reporting
  // if they are prefixed with |kActivationMarker|. Trial names in
  // |ignored_trial_names| are ignored when parsing |trials_string|.
  static bool CreateTrialsFromString(
      const std::string& trials_string,
      const std::set<std::string>& ignored_trial_names);

  // Achieves the same thing as CreateTrialsFromString, except wraps the logic
  // by taking in the trials from the command line, either via shared memory
  // handle or command line argument. A bit of a misnomer since on POSIX we
  // simply get the trials from opening |fd_key| if using shared memory. On
  // Windows, we expect the |cmd_line| switch for |field_trial_handle_switch| to
  // contain the shared memory handle that contains the field trial allocator.
  // We need the |field_trial_handle_switch| and |fd_key| arguments to be passed
  // in since base/ can't depend on content/.
  static void CreateTrialsFromCommandLine(const base::CommandLine& cmd_line,
                                          const char* field_trial_handle_switch,
                                          int fd_key);

  // Creates base::Feature overrides from the command line by first trying to
  // use shared memory and then falling back to the command line if it fails.
  static void CreateFeaturesFromCommandLine(
      const base::CommandLine& command_line,
      const char* enable_features_switch,
      const char* disable_features_switch,
      FeatureList* feature_list);

#if defined(OS_WIN)
  // On Windows, we need to explicitly pass down any handles to be inherited.
  // This function adds the shared memory handle to field trial state to the
  // list of handles to be inherited.
  static void AppendFieldTrialHandleIfNeeded(
      base::HandlesToInheritVector* handles);
#elif defined(OS_FUCHSIA)
  // TODO(fuchsia): Implement shared-memory configuration (crbug.com/752368).
#elif defined(OS_POSIX) && !defined(OS_NACL)
  // On POSIX, we also need to explicitly pass down this file descriptor that
  // should be shared with the child process. Returns an invalid handle if it
  // was not initialized properly.
  static base::SharedMemoryHandle GetFieldTrialHandle();
#endif

  // Adds a switch to the command line containing the field trial state as a
  // string (if not using shared memory to share field trial state), or the
  // shared memory handle + length.
  // Needs the |field_trial_handle_switch| argument to be passed in since base/
  // can't depend on content/.
  static void CopyFieldTrialStateToFlags(const char* field_trial_handle_switch,
                                         const char* enable_features_switch,
                                         const char* disable_features_switch,
                                         base::CommandLine* cmd_line);

  // Create a FieldTrial with the given |name| and using 100% probability for
  // the FieldTrial, force FieldTrial to have the same group string as
  // |group_name|. This is commonly used in a non-browser process, to carry
  // randomly selected state in a browser process into this non-browser process.
  // It returns NULL if there is a FieldTrial that is already registered with
  // the same |name| but has different finalized group string (|group_name|).
  static FieldTrial* CreateFieldTrial(const std::string& name,
                                      const std::string& group_name);

  // Add an observer to be notified when a field trial is irrevocably committed
  // to being part of some specific field_group (and hence the group_name is
  // also finalized for that field_trial). Returns false and does nothing if
  // there is no FieldTrialList singleton.
  static bool AddObserver(Observer* observer);

  // Remove an observer.
  static void RemoveObserver(Observer* observer);

  // Similar to AddObserver(), but the passed observer will be notified
  // synchronously when a field trial is activated and its group selected. It
  // will be notified synchronously on the same thread where the activation and
  // group selection happened. It is the responsibility of the observer to make
  // sure that this is a safe operation and the operation must be fast, as this
  // work is done synchronously as part of group() or related APIs. Only a
  // single such observer is supported, exposed specifically for crash
  // reporting. Must be called on the main thread before any other threads
  // have been started.
  static void SetSynchronousObserver(Observer* observer);

  // Removes the single synchronous observer.
  static void RemoveSynchronousObserver(Observer* observer);

  // Grabs the lock if necessary and adds the field trial to the allocator. This
  // should only be called from FinalizeGroupChoice().
  static void OnGroupFinalized(bool is_locked, FieldTrial* field_trial);

  // Notify all observers that a group has been finalized for |field_trial|.
  static void NotifyFieldTrialGroupSelection(FieldTrial* field_trial);

  // Return the number of active field trials.
  static size_t GetFieldTrialCount();

  // Gets the parameters for |field_trial| from shared memory and stores them in
  // |params|. This is only exposed for use by FieldTrialParamAssociator and
  // shouldn't be used by anything else.
  static bool GetParamsFromSharedMemory(
      FieldTrial* field_trial,
      std::map<std::string, std::string>* params);

  // Clears all the params in the allocator.
  static void ClearParamsFromSharedMemoryForTesting();

  // Dumps field trial state to an allocator so that it can be analyzed after a
  // crash.
  static void DumpAllFieldTrialsToPersistentAllocator(
      PersistentMemoryAllocator* allocator);

  // Retrieves field trial state from an allocator so that it can be analyzed
  // after a crash. The pointers in the returned vector are into the persistent
  // memory segment and so are only valid as long as the allocator is valid.
  static std::vector<const FieldTrial::FieldTrialEntry*>
  GetAllFieldTrialsFromPersistentAllocator(
      PersistentMemoryAllocator const& allocator);

  // Returns true if a global field trial list is set. Only used for testing.
  static bool IsGlobalSetForTesting();

 private:
  // Allow tests to access our innards for testing purposes.
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialListTest, InstantiateAllocator);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialListTest, AddTrialsToAllocator);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialListTest,
                           DoNotAddSimulatedFieldTrialsToAllocator);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialListTest, AssociateFieldTrialParams);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialListTest, ClearParamsFromSharedMemory);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialListTest,
                           SerializeSharedMemoryHandleMetadata);
  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(FieldTrialListTest, CheckReadOnlySharedMemoryHandle);

  // Serialization is used to pass information about the handle to child
  // processes. It passes a reference to the relevant OS resource, and it passes
  // a GUID. Serialization and deserialization doesn't actually transport the
  // underlying OS resource - that must be done by the Process launcher.
  static std::string SerializeSharedMemoryHandleMetadata(
      const SharedMemoryHandle& shm);
#if defined(OS_WIN) || defined(OS_FUCHSIA)
  static SharedMemoryHandle DeserializeSharedMemoryHandleMetadata(
      const std::string& switch_value);
#elif defined(OS_POSIX) && !defined(OS_NACL)
  static SharedMemoryHandle DeserializeSharedMemoryHandleMetadata(
      int fd,
      const std::string& switch_value);
#endif

#if defined(OS_WIN) || defined(OS_FUCHSIA)
  // Takes in |handle_switch| from the command line which represents the shared
  // memory handle for field trials, parses it, and creates the field trials.
  // Returns true on success, false on failure.
  // |switch_value| also contains the serialized GUID.
  static bool CreateTrialsFromSwitchValue(const std::string& switch_value);
#elif defined(OS_POSIX) && !defined(OS_NACL)
  // On POSIX systems that use the zygote, we look up the correct fd that backs
  // the shared memory segment containing the field trials by looking it up via
  // an fd key in GlobalDescriptors. Returns true on success, false on failure.
  // |switch_value| also contains the serialized GUID.
  static bool CreateTrialsFromDescriptor(int fd_key,
                                         const std::string& switch_value);
#endif

  // Takes an unmapped SharedMemoryHandle, creates a SharedMemory object from it
  // and maps it with the correct size.
  static bool CreateTrialsFromSharedMemoryHandle(SharedMemoryHandle shm_handle);

  // Expects a mapped piece of shared memory |shm| that was created from the
  // browser process's field_trial_allocator and shared via the command line.
  // This function recreates the allocator, iterates through all the field
  // trials in it, and creates them via CreateFieldTrial(). Returns true if
  // successful and false otherwise.
  static bool CreateTrialsFromSharedMemory(
      std::unique_ptr<base::SharedMemory> shm);

  // Instantiate the field trial allocator, add all existing field trials to it,
  // and duplicates its handle to a read-only handle, which gets stored in
  // |readonly_allocator_handle|.
  static void InstantiateFieldTrialAllocatorIfNeeded();

  // Adds the field trial to the allocator. Caller must hold a lock before
  // calling this.
  static void AddToAllocatorWhileLocked(PersistentMemoryAllocator* allocator,
                                        FieldTrial* field_trial);

  // Activate the corresponding field trial entry struct in shared memory.
  static void ActivateFieldTrialEntryWhileLocked(FieldTrial* field_trial);

  // A map from FieldTrial names to the actual instances.
  typedef std::map<std::string, FieldTrial*> RegistrationMap;

  // If one-time randomization is enabled, returns a weak pointer to the
  // corresponding EntropyProvider. Otherwise, returns NULL.
  static const FieldTrial::EntropyProvider*
      GetEntropyProviderForOneTimeRandomization();

  // Helper function should be called only while holding lock_.
  FieldTrial* PreLockedFind(const std::string& name);

  // Register() stores a pointer to the given trial in a global map.
  // This method also AddRef's the indicated trial.
  // This should always be called after creating a new FieldTrial instance.
  static void Register(FieldTrial* trial);

  // Returns all the registered trials.
  static RegistrationMap GetRegisteredTrials();

  static FieldTrialList* global_;  // The singleton of this class.

  // This will tell us if there is an attempt to register a field
  // trial or check if one-time randomization is enabled without
  // creating the FieldTrialList. This is not an error, unless a
  // FieldTrialList is created after that.
  static bool used_without_global_;

  // Lock for access to registered_ and field_trial_allocator_.
  Lock lock_;
  RegistrationMap registered_;

  std::map<std::string, std::string> seen_states_;

  // Entropy provider to be used for one-time randomized field trials. If NULL,
  // one-time randomization is not supported.
  std::unique_ptr<const FieldTrial::EntropyProvider> entropy_provider_;

  // List of observers to be notified when a group is selected for a FieldTrial.
  scoped_refptr<ObserverListThreadSafe<Observer> > observer_list_;

  // Single synchronous observer to be notified when a trial group is chosen.
  Observer* synchronous_observer_ = nullptr;

  // Allocator in shared memory containing field trial data. Used in both
  // browser and child processes, but readonly in the child.
  // In the future, we may want to move this to a more generic place if we want
  // to start passing more data other than field trials.
  std::unique_ptr<FieldTrialAllocator> field_trial_allocator_ = nullptr;

  // Readonly copy of the handle to the allocator. Needs to be a member variable
  // because it's needed from both CopyFieldTrialStateToFlags() and
  // AppendFieldTrialHandleIfNeeded().
  base::SharedMemoryHandle readonly_allocator_handle_;

  // Tracks whether CreateTrialsFromCommandLine() has been called.
  bool create_trials_from_command_line_called_ = false;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(FieldTrialList);
};

}  // namespace base

#endif  // BASE_METRICS_FIELD_TRIAL_H_