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+// 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.
+
+#ifndef CONTENT_PUBLIC_BROWSER_TRACE_CONTROLLER_H_
+#define CONTENT_PUBLIC_BROWSER_TRACE_CONTROLLER_H_
+
+#include "content/common/content_export.h"
+
+namespace content {
+
+class TraceSubscriber;
+
+// TraceController is used on the browser processes to enable/disable
+// trace status and collect trace data. Only the browser UI thread is allowed
+// to interact with the TraceController object. All calls on the TraceSubscriber
+// happen on the UI thread.
+class TraceController {
+ public:
+  CONTENT_EXPORT static TraceController* GetInstance();
+
+  // Called by browser process to start tracing events on all processes.
+  //
+  // Currently only one subscriber is allowed at a time.
+  // Tracing begins immediately locally, and asynchronously on child processes
+  // as soon as they receive the BeginTracing request.
+  // By default, all categories are traced except those matching "test_*".
+  //
+  // If BeginTracing was already called previously,
+  //   or if an EndTracingAsync is pending,
+  //   or if another subscriber is tracing,
+  //   BeginTracing will return false meaning it failed.
+  virtual bool BeginTracing(TraceSubscriber* subscriber) = 0;
+
+  // |categories| is a comma-delimited list of category wildcards.
+  // A category can have an optional '-' prefix to make it an excluded category.
+  // All the same rules apply above, so for example, having both included and
+  // excluded categories in the same list would not be supported.
+  //
+  // Example: BeginTracing("test_MyTest*");
+  // Example: BeginTracing("test_MyTest*,test_OtherStuff");
+  // Example: BeginTracing("-excluded_category1,-excluded_category2");
+  virtual bool BeginTracing(TraceSubscriber* subscriber,
+                            const std::string& categories) = 0;
+
+  // Called by browser process to stop tracing events on all processes.
+  //
+  // Child processes typically are caching trace data and only rarely flush
+  // and send trace data back to the browser process. That is because it may be
+  // an expensive operation to send the trace data over IPC, and we would like
+  // to avoid much runtime overhead of tracing. So, to end tracing, we must
+  // asynchronously ask all child processes to flush any pending trace data.
+  //
+  // Once all child processes have acked the EndTracing request,
+  // TraceSubscriber will be called with OnEndTracingComplete.
+  //
+  // If a previous call to EndTracingAsync is already pending,
+  //   or if another subscriber is tracing,
+  //   EndTracingAsync will return false meaning it failed.
+  virtual bool EndTracingAsync(TraceSubscriber* subscriber) = 0;
+
+  // Get the maximum across processes of trace buffer percent full state.
+  // When the TraceBufferPercentFull value is determined,
+  // subscriber->OnTraceBufferPercentFullReply is called.
+  // When any child process reaches 100% full, the TraceController will end
+  // tracing, and call TraceSubscriber::OnEndTracingComplete.
+  // GetTraceBufferPercentFullAsync fails in the following conditions:
+  //   trace is ending or disabled;
+  //   a previous call to GetTraceBufferPercentFullAsync is pending; or
+  //   the caller is not the current subscriber.
+  virtual bool GetTraceBufferPercentFullAsync(TraceSubscriber* subscriber) = 0;
+
+  // Cancel the subscriber so that it will not be called when EndTracingAsync is
+  // acked by all child processes. This will also call EndTracingAsync
+  // internally if necessary.
+  // Safe to call even if caller is not the current subscriber.
+  virtual void CancelSubscriber(TraceSubscriber* subscriber) = 0;
+
+ protected:
+  virtual ~TraceController() {}
+};
+
+}  // namespace content
+
+#endif  // CONTENT_PUBLIC_BROWSER_TRACE_CONTROLLER_H_
+