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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 <memory>
     13 #include <string>
     14 #include <vector>
     15 
     16 #include "base/atomicops.h"
     17 #include "base/base_export.h"
     18 #include "base/macros.h"
     19 #include "base/strings/string_piece.h"
     20 #include "base/time/time.h"
     21 
     22 namespace base {
     23 
     24 class BucketRanges;
     25 class DictionaryValue;
     26 class HistogramBase;
     27 class HistogramSamples;
     28 class ListValue;
     29 class Pickle;
     30 class PickleIterator;
     31 
     32 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     33 // This enum is used to facilitate deserialization of histograms from other
     34 // processes into the browser. If you create another class that inherits from
     35 // HistogramBase, add new histogram types and names below.
     36 
     37 enum HistogramType {
     38   HISTOGRAM,
     39   LINEAR_HISTOGRAM,
     40   BOOLEAN_HISTOGRAM,
     41   CUSTOM_HISTOGRAM,
     42   SPARSE_HISTOGRAM,
     43 };
     44 
     45 std::string HistogramTypeToString(HistogramType type);
     46 
     47 // This enum is used for reporting how many histograms and of what types and
     48 // variations are being created. It has to be in the main .h file so it is
     49 // visible to files that define the various histogram types.
     50 enum HistogramReport {
     51   // Count the number of reports created. The other counts divided by this
     52   // number will give the average per run of the program.
     53   HISTOGRAM_REPORT_CREATED = 0,
     54 
     55   // Count the total number of histograms created. It is the limit against
     56   // which all others are compared.
     57   HISTOGRAM_REPORT_HISTOGRAM_CREATED = 1,
     58 
     59   // Count the total number of histograms looked-up. It's better to cache
     60   // the result of a single lookup rather than do it repeatedly.
     61   HISTOGRAM_REPORT_HISTOGRAM_LOOKUP = 2,
     62 
     63   // These count the individual histogram types. This must follow the order
     64   // of HistogramType above.
     65   HISTOGRAM_REPORT_TYPE_LOGARITHMIC = 3,
     66   HISTOGRAM_REPORT_TYPE_LINEAR = 4,
     67   HISTOGRAM_REPORT_TYPE_BOOLEAN = 5,
     68   HISTOGRAM_REPORT_TYPE_CUSTOM = 6,
     69   HISTOGRAM_REPORT_TYPE_SPARSE = 7,
     70 
     71   // These indicate the individual flags that were set.
     72   HISTOGRAM_REPORT_FLAG_UMA_TARGETED = 8,
     73   HISTOGRAM_REPORT_FLAG_UMA_STABILITY = 9,
     74   HISTOGRAM_REPORT_FLAG_PERSISTENT = 10,
     75 
     76   // This must be last.
     77   HISTOGRAM_REPORT_MAX = 11
     78 };
     79 
     80 // Create or find existing histogram that matches the pickled info.
     81 // Returns NULL if the pickled data has problems.
     82 BASE_EXPORT HistogramBase* DeserializeHistogramInfo(base::PickleIterator* iter);
     83 
     84 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     85 
     86 class BASE_EXPORT HistogramBase {
     87  public:
     88   typedef int32_t Sample;                // Used for samples.
     89   typedef subtle::Atomic32 AtomicCount;  // Used to count samples.
     90   typedef int32_t Count;  // Used to manipulate counts in temporaries.
     91 
     92   static const Sample kSampleType_MAX;  // INT_MAX
     93 
     94   enum Flags {
     95     kNoFlags = 0,
     96 
     97     // Histogram should be UMA uploaded.
     98     kUmaTargetedHistogramFlag = 0x1,
     99 
    100     // Indicates that this is a stability histogram. This flag exists to specify
    101     // which histograms should be included in the initial stability log. Please
    102     // refer to |MetricsService::PrepareInitialStabilityLog|.
    103     kUmaStabilityHistogramFlag = kUmaTargetedHistogramFlag | 0x2,
    104 
    105     // Indicates that the histogram was pickled to be sent across an IPC
    106     // Channel. If we observe this flag on a histogram being aggregated into
    107     // after IPC, then we are running in a single process mode, and the
    108     // aggregation should not take place (as we would be aggregating back into
    109     // the source histogram!).
    110     kIPCSerializationSourceFlag = 0x10,
    111 
    112     // Indicates that a callback exists for when a new sample is recorded on
    113     // this histogram. We store this as a flag with the histogram since
    114     // histograms can be in performance critical code, and this allows us
    115     // to shortcut looking up the callback if it doesn't exist.
    116     kCallbackExists = 0x20,
    117 
    118     // Indicates that the histogram is held in "persistent" memory and may
    119     // be accessible between processes. This is only possible if such a
    120     // memory segment has been created/attached, used to create a Persistent-
    121     // MemoryAllocator, and that loaded into the Histogram module before this
    122     // histogram is created.
    123     kIsPersistent = 0x40,
    124 
    125     // Only for Histogram and its sub classes: fancy bucket-naming support.
    126     kHexRangePrintingFlag = 0x8000,
    127   };
    128 
    129   // Histogram data inconsistency types.
    130   enum Inconsistency : uint32_t {
    131     NO_INCONSISTENCIES = 0x0,
    132     RANGE_CHECKSUM_ERROR = 0x1,
    133     BUCKET_ORDER_ERROR = 0x2,
    134     COUNT_HIGH_ERROR = 0x4,
    135     COUNT_LOW_ERROR = 0x8,
    136 
    137     NEVER_EXCEEDED_VALUE = 0x10,
    138   };
    139 
    140   explicit HistogramBase(const std::string& name);
    141   virtual ~HistogramBase();
    142 
    143   const std::string& histogram_name() const { return histogram_name_; }
    144 
    145   // Comapres |name| to the histogram name and triggers a DCHECK if they do not
    146   // match. This is a helper function used by histogram macros, which results in
    147   // in more compact machine code being generated by the macros.
    148   void CheckName(const StringPiece& name) const;
    149 
    150   // Get a unique ID for this histogram's samples.
    151   virtual uint64_t name_hash() const = 0;
    152 
    153   // Operations with Flags enum.
    154   int32_t flags() const { return subtle::NoBarrier_Load(&flags_); }
    155   void SetFlags(int32_t flags);
    156   void ClearFlags(int32_t flags);
    157 
    158   virtual HistogramType GetHistogramType() const = 0;
    159 
    160   // Whether the histogram has construction arguments as parameters specified.
    161   // For histograms that don't have the concept of minimum, maximum or
    162   // bucket_count, this function always returns false.
    163   virtual bool HasConstructionArguments(
    164       Sample expected_minimum,
    165       Sample expected_maximum,
    166       uint32_t expected_bucket_count) const = 0;
    167 
    168   virtual void Add(Sample value) = 0;
    169 
    170   // In Add function the |value| bucket is increased by one, but in some use
    171   // cases we need to increase this value by an arbitrary integer. AddCount
    172   // function increases the |value| bucket by |count|. |count| should be greater
    173   // than or equal to 1.
    174   virtual void AddCount(Sample value, int count) = 0;
    175 
    176   // 2 convenient functions that call Add(Sample).
    177   void AddTime(const TimeDelta& time);
    178   void AddBoolean(bool value);
    179 
    180   virtual void AddSamples(const HistogramSamples& samples) = 0;
    181   virtual bool AddSamplesFromPickle(base::PickleIterator* iter) = 0;
    182 
    183   // Serialize the histogram info into |pickle|.
    184   // Note: This only serializes the construction arguments of the histogram, but
    185   // does not serialize the samples.
    186   bool SerializeInfo(base::Pickle* pickle) const;
    187 
    188   // Try to find out data corruption from histogram and the samples.
    189   // The returned value is a combination of Inconsistency enum.
    190   virtual uint32_t FindCorruption(const HistogramSamples& samples) const;
    191 
    192   // Snapshot the current complete set of sample data.
    193   // Override with atomic/locked snapshot if needed.
    194   virtual std::unique_ptr<HistogramSamples> SnapshotSamples() const = 0;
    195 
    196   // Calculate the change (delta) in histogram counts since the previous call
    197   // to this method. Each successive call will return only those counts
    198   // changed since the last call.
    199   virtual std::unique_ptr<HistogramSamples> SnapshotDelta() = 0;
    200 
    201   // Calculate the change (delta) in histogram counts since the previous call
    202   // to SnapshotDelta() but do so without modifying any internal data as to
    203   // what was previous logged. After such a call, no further calls to this
    204   // method or to SnapshotDelta() should be done as the result would include
    205   // data previously returned. Because no internal data is changed, this call
    206   // can be made on "const" histograms such as those with data held in
    207   // read-only memory.
    208   virtual std::unique_ptr<HistogramSamples> SnapshotFinalDelta() const = 0;
    209 
    210   // The following methods provide graphical histogram displays.
    211   virtual void WriteHTMLGraph(std::string* output) const = 0;
    212   virtual void WriteAscii(std::string* output) const = 0;
    213 
    214   // Produce a JSON representation of the histogram. This is implemented with
    215   // the help of GetParameters and GetCountAndBucketData; overwrite them to
    216   // customize the output.
    217   void WriteJSON(std::string* output) const;
    218 
    219   // This enables a histogram that reports the what types of histograms are
    220   // created and their flags. It must be called while still single-threaded.
    221   //
    222   // IMPORTANT: Callers must update tools/metrics/histograms/histograms.xml
    223   // with the following histogram:
    224   //    UMA.Histograms.process_type.Creations
    225   static void EnableActivityReportHistogram(const std::string& process_type);
    226 
    227  protected:
    228   enum ReportActivity { HISTOGRAM_CREATED, HISTOGRAM_LOOKUP };
    229 
    230   // Subclasses should implement this function to make SerializeInfo work.
    231   virtual bool SerializeInfoImpl(base::Pickle* pickle) const = 0;
    232 
    233   // Writes information about the construction parameters in |params|.
    234   virtual void GetParameters(DictionaryValue* params) const = 0;
    235 
    236   // Writes information about the current (non-empty) buckets and their sample
    237   // counts to |buckets|, the total sample count to |count| and the total sum
    238   // to |sum|.
    239   virtual void GetCountAndBucketData(Count* count,
    240                                      int64_t* sum,
    241                                      ListValue* buckets) const = 0;
    242 
    243   //// Produce actual graph (set of blank vs non blank char's) for a bucket.
    244   void WriteAsciiBucketGraph(double current_size,
    245                              double max_size,
    246                              std::string* output) const;
    247 
    248   // Return a string description of what goes in a given bucket.
    249   const std::string GetSimpleAsciiBucketRange(Sample sample) const;
    250 
    251   // Write textual description of the bucket contents (relative to histogram).
    252   // Output is the count in the buckets, as well as the percentage.
    253   void WriteAsciiBucketValue(Count current,
    254                              double scaled_sum,
    255                              std::string* output) const;
    256 
    257   // Retrieves the callback for this histogram, if one exists, and runs it
    258   // passing |sample| as the parameter.
    259   void FindAndRunCallback(Sample sample) const;
    260 
    261   // Update report with an |activity| that occurred for |histogram|.
    262   static void ReportHistogramActivity(const HistogramBase& histogram,
    263                                       ReportActivity activicty);
    264 
    265   // Retrieves the global histogram reporting what histograms are created.
    266   static HistogramBase* report_histogram_;
    267 
    268  private:
    269   friend class HistogramBaseTest;
    270 
    271   const std::string histogram_name_;
    272   AtomicCount flags_;
    273 
    274   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(HistogramBase);
    275 };
    276 
    277 }  // namespace base
    278 
    279 #endif  // BASE_METRICS_HISTOGRAM_BASE_H_
    280