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      1 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 #ifndef BASE_METRICS_HISTOGRAM_BASE_H_
      6 #define BASE_METRICS_HISTOGRAM_BASE_H_
      7 
      8 #include <limits.h>
      9 #include <stddef.h>
     10 #include <stdint.h>
     11 
     12 #include <string>
     13 #include <vector>
     14 
     15 #include "base/atomicops.h"
     16 #include "base/base_export.h"
     17 #include "base/macros.h"
     18 #include "base/memory/scoped_ptr.h"
     19 #include "base/strings/string_piece.h"
     20 #include "base/time/time.h"
     21 
     22 namespace base {
     23 
     24 class DictionaryValue;
     25 class HistogramBase;
     26 class HistogramSamples;
     27 class ListValue;
     28 class Pickle;
     29 class PickleIterator;
     30 
     31 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     32 // These enums are used to facilitate deserialization of histograms from other
     33 // processes into the browser. If you create another class that inherits from
     34 // HistogramBase, add new histogram types and names below.
     35 
     36 enum HistogramType {
     37   HISTOGRAM,
     38   LINEAR_HISTOGRAM,
     39   BOOLEAN_HISTOGRAM,
     40   CUSTOM_HISTOGRAM,
     41   SPARSE_HISTOGRAM,
     42 };
     43 
     44 std::string HistogramTypeToString(HistogramType type);
     45 
     46 // Create or find existing histogram that matches the pickled info.
     47 // Returns NULL if the pickled data has problems.
     48 BASE_EXPORT HistogramBase* DeserializeHistogramInfo(base::PickleIterator* iter);
     49 
     50 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     51 
     52 class BASE_EXPORT HistogramBase {
     53  public:
     54   typedef int32_t Sample;                // Used for samples.
     55   typedef subtle::Atomic32 AtomicCount;  // Used to count samples.
     56   typedef int32_t Count;  // Used to manipulate counts in temporaries.
     57 
     58   static const Sample kSampleType_MAX;  // INT_MAX
     59 
     60   enum Flags {
     61     kNoFlags = 0,
     62 
     63     // Histogram should be UMA uploaded.
     64     kUmaTargetedHistogramFlag = 0x1,
     65 
     66     // Indicates that this is a stability histogram. This flag exists to specify
     67     // which histograms should be included in the initial stability log. Please
     68     // refer to |MetricsService::PrepareInitialStabilityLog|.
     69     kUmaStabilityHistogramFlag = kUmaTargetedHistogramFlag | 0x2,
     70 
     71     // Indicates that the histogram was pickled to be sent across an IPC
     72     // Channel. If we observe this flag on a histogram being aggregated into
     73     // after IPC, then we are running in a single process mode, and the
     74     // aggregation should not take place (as we would be aggregating back into
     75     // the source histogram!).
     76     kIPCSerializationSourceFlag = 0x10,
     77 
     78     // Indicates that a callback exists for when a new sample is recorded on
     79     // this histogram. We store this as a flag with the histogram since
     80     // histograms can be in performance critical code, and this allows us
     81     // to shortcut looking up the callback if it doesn't exist.
     82     kCallbackExists = 0x20,
     83 
     84     // Only for Histogram and its sub classes: fancy bucket-naming support.
     85     kHexRangePrintingFlag = 0x8000,
     86   };
     87 
     88   // Histogram data inconsistency types.
     89   enum Inconsistency {
     90     NO_INCONSISTENCIES = 0x0,
     91     RANGE_CHECKSUM_ERROR = 0x1,
     92     BUCKET_ORDER_ERROR = 0x2,
     93     COUNT_HIGH_ERROR = 0x4,
     94     COUNT_LOW_ERROR = 0x8,
     95 
     96     NEVER_EXCEEDED_VALUE = 0x10
     97   };
     98 
     99   explicit HistogramBase(const std::string& name);
    100   virtual ~HistogramBase();
    101 
    102   const std::string& histogram_name() const { return histogram_name_; }
    103 
    104   // Comapres |name| to the histogram name and triggers a DCHECK if they do not
    105   // match. This is a helper function used by histogram macros, which results in
    106   // in more compact machine code being generated by the macros.
    107   void CheckName(const StringPiece& name) const;
    108 
    109   // Get a unique ID for this histogram's samples.
    110   virtual uint64_t name_hash() const = 0;
    111 
    112   // Operations with Flags enum.
    113   int32_t flags() const { return subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&flags_); }
    114   void SetFlags(int32_t flags);
    115   void ClearFlags(int32_t flags);
    116 
    117   virtual HistogramType GetHistogramType() const = 0;
    118 
    119   // Whether the histogram has construction arguments as parameters specified.
    120   // For histograms that don't have the concept of minimum, maximum or
    121   // bucket_count, this function always returns false.
    122   virtual bool HasConstructionArguments(Sample expected_minimum,
    123                                         Sample expected_maximum,
    124                                         size_t expected_bucket_count) const = 0;
    125 
    126   virtual void Add(Sample value) = 0;
    127 
    128   // In Add function the |value| bucket is increased by one, but in some use
    129   // cases we need to increase this value by an arbitrary integer. AddCount
    130   // function increases the |value| bucket by |count|. |count| should be greater
    131   // than or equal to 1.
    132   virtual void AddCount(Sample value, int count) = 0;
    133 
    134   // 2 convenient functions that call Add(Sample).
    135   void AddTime(const TimeDelta& time);
    136   void AddBoolean(bool value);
    137 
    138   virtual void AddSamples(const HistogramSamples& samples) = 0;
    139   virtual bool AddSamplesFromPickle(base::PickleIterator* iter) = 0;
    140 
    141   // Serialize the histogram info into |pickle|.
    142   // Note: This only serializes the construction arguments of the histogram, but
    143   // does not serialize the samples.
    144   bool SerializeInfo(base::Pickle* pickle) const;
    145 
    146   // Try to find out data corruption from histogram and the samples.
    147   // The returned value is a combination of Inconsistency enum.
    148   virtual int FindCorruption(const HistogramSamples& samples) const;
    149 
    150   // Snapshot the current complete set of sample data.
    151   // Override with atomic/locked snapshot if needed.
    152   virtual scoped_ptr<HistogramSamples> SnapshotSamples() const = 0;
    153 
    154   // The following methods provide graphical histogram displays.
    155   virtual void WriteHTMLGraph(std::string* output) const = 0;
    156   virtual void WriteAscii(std::string* output) const = 0;
    157 
    158   // Produce a JSON representation of the histogram. This is implemented with
    159   // the help of GetParameters and GetCountAndBucketData; overwrite them to
    160   // customize the output.
    161   void WriteJSON(std::string* output) const;
    162 
    163  protected:
    164   // Subclasses should implement this function to make SerializeInfo work.
    165   virtual bool SerializeInfoImpl(base::Pickle* pickle) const = 0;
    166 
    167   // Writes information about the construction parameters in |params|.
    168   virtual void GetParameters(DictionaryValue* params) const = 0;
    169 
    170   // Writes information about the current (non-empty) buckets and their sample
    171   // counts to |buckets|, the total sample count to |count| and the total sum
    172   // to |sum|.
    173   virtual void GetCountAndBucketData(Count* count,
    174                                      int64_t* sum,
    175                                      ListValue* buckets) const = 0;
    176 
    177   //// Produce actual graph (set of blank vs non blank char's) for a bucket.
    178   void WriteAsciiBucketGraph(double current_size,
    179                              double max_size,
    180                              std::string* output) const;
    181 
    182   // Return a string description of what goes in a given bucket.
    183   const std::string GetSimpleAsciiBucketRange(Sample sample) const;
    184 
    185   // Write textual description of the bucket contents (relative to histogram).
    186   // Output is the count in the buckets, as well as the percentage.
    187   void WriteAsciiBucketValue(Count current,
    188                              double scaled_sum,
    189                              std::string* output) const;
    190 
    191   // Retrieves the callback for this histogram, if one exists, and runs it
    192   // passing |sample| as the parameter.
    193   void FindAndRunCallback(Sample sample) const;
    194 
    195  private:
    196   const std::string histogram_name_;
    197   AtomicCount flags_;
    198 
    199   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(HistogramBase);
    200 };
    201 
    202 }  // namespace base
    203 
    204 #endif  // BASE_METRICS_HISTOGRAM_BASE_H_
    205