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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 
histogram_name()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.
flags()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