// 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. // Histogram is an object that aggregates statistics, and can summarize them in // various forms, including ASCII graphical, HTML, and numerically (as a // vector of numbers corresponding to each of the aggregating buckets). // It supports calls to accumulate either time intervals (which are processed // as integral number of milliseconds), or arbitrary integral units. // For Histogram(exponential histogram), LinearHistogram and CustomHistogram, // the minimum for a declared range is 1 (instead of 0), while the maximum is // (HistogramBase::kSampleType_MAX - 1). Currently you can declare histograms // with ranges exceeding those limits (e.g. 0 as minimal or // HistogramBase::kSampleType_MAX as maximal), but those excesses will be // silently clamped to those limits (for backwards compatibility with existing // code). Best practice is to not exceed the limits. // Each use of a histogram with the same name will reference the same underlying // data, so it is safe to record to the same histogram from multiple locations // in the code. It is a runtime error if all uses of the same histogram do not // agree exactly in type, bucket size and range. // For Histogram and LinearHistogram, the maximum for a declared range should // always be larger (not equal) than minimal range. Zero and // HistogramBase::kSampleType_MAX are implicitly added as first and last ranges, // so the smallest legal bucket_count is 3. However CustomHistogram can have // bucket count as 2 (when you give a custom ranges vector containing only 1 // range). // For these 3 kinds of histograms, the max bucket count is always // (Histogram::kBucketCount_MAX - 1). // The buckets layout of class Histogram is exponential. For example, buckets // might contain (sequentially) the count of values in the following intervals: // [0,1), [1,2), [2,4), [4,8), [8,16), [16,32), [32,64), [64,infinity) // That bucket allocation would actually result from construction of a histogram // for values between 1 and 64, with 8 buckets, such as: // Histogram count("some name", 1, 64, 8); // Note that the underflow bucket [0,1) and the overflow bucket [64,infinity) // are also counted by the constructor in the user supplied "bucket_count" // argument. // The above example has an exponential ratio of 2 (doubling the bucket width // in each consecutive bucket. The Histogram class automatically calculates // the smallest ratio that it can use to construct the number of buckets // selected in the constructor. An another example, if you had 50 buckets, // and millisecond time values from 1 to 10000, then the ratio between // consecutive bucket widths will be approximately somewhere around the 50th // root of 10000. This approach provides very fine grain (narrow) buckets // at the low end of the histogram scale, but allows the histogram to cover a // gigantic range with the addition of very few buckets. // Usually we use macros to define and use a histogram, which are defined in // base/metrics/histogram_macros.h. Note: Callers should include that header // directly if they only access the histogram APIs through macros. // // Macros use a pattern involving a function static variable, that is a pointer // to a histogram. This static is explicitly initialized on any thread // that detects a uninitialized (NULL) pointer. The potentially racy // initialization is not a problem as it is always set to point to the same // value (i.e., the FactoryGet always returns the same value). FactoryGet // is also completely thread safe, which results in a completely thread safe, // and relatively fast, set of counters. To avoid races at shutdown, the static // pointer is NOT deleted, and we leak the histograms at process termination. #ifndef BASE_METRICS_HISTOGRAM_H_ #define BASE_METRICS_HISTOGRAM_H_ #include #include #include #include "base/base_export.h" #include "base/basictypes.h" #include "base/compiler_specific.h" #include "base/gtest_prod_util.h" #include "base/logging.h" #include "base/memory/scoped_ptr.h" #include "base/metrics/bucket_ranges.h" #include "base/metrics/histogram_base.h" // TODO(asvitkine): Migrate callers to to include this directly and remove this. #include "base/metrics/histogram_macros.h" #include "base/metrics/histogram_samples.h" #include "base/time/time.h" class Pickle; class PickleIterator; namespace base { class BooleanHistogram; class CustomHistogram; class Histogram; class LinearHistogram; class SampleVector; class BASE_EXPORT Histogram : public HistogramBase { public: // Initialize maximum number of buckets in histograms as 16,384. static const size_t kBucketCount_MAX; typedef std::vector Counts; //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // For a valid histogram, input should follow these restrictions: // minimum > 0 (if a minimum below 1 is specified, it will implicitly be // normalized up to 1) // maximum > minimum // buckets > 2 [minimum buckets needed: underflow, overflow and the range] // Additionally, // buckets <= (maximum - minimum + 2) - this is to ensure that we don't have // more buckets than the range of numbers; having more buckets than 1 per // value in the range would be nonsensical. static HistogramBase* FactoryGet(const std::string& name, Sample minimum, Sample maximum, size_t bucket_count, int32 flags); static HistogramBase* FactoryTimeGet(const std::string& name, base::TimeDelta minimum, base::TimeDelta maximum, size_t bucket_count, int32 flags); static void InitializeBucketRanges(Sample minimum, Sample maximum, BucketRanges* ranges); // This constant if for FindCorruption. Since snapshots of histograms are // taken asynchronously relative to sampling, and our counting code currently // does not prevent race conditions, it is pretty likely that we'll catch a // redundant count that doesn't match the sample count. We allow for a // certain amount of slop before flagging this as an inconsistency. Even with // an inconsistency, we'll snapshot it again (for UMA in about a half hour), // so we'll eventually get the data, if it was not the result of a corruption. static const int kCommonRaceBasedCountMismatch; // Check to see if bucket ranges, counts and tallies in the snapshot are // consistent with the bucket ranges and checksums in our histogram. This can // produce a false-alarm if a race occurred in the reading of the data during // a SnapShot process, but should otherwise be false at all times (unless we // have memory over-writes, or DRAM failures). int FindCorruption(const HistogramSamples& samples) const override; //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Accessors for factory construction, serialization and testing. //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sample declared_min() const { return declared_min_; } Sample declared_max() const { return declared_max_; } virtual Sample ranges(size_t i) const; virtual size_t bucket_count() const; const BucketRanges* bucket_ranges() const { return bucket_ranges_; } // This function validates histogram construction arguments. It returns false // if some of the arguments are totally bad. // Note. Currently it allow some bad input, e.g. 0 as minimum, but silently // converts it to good input: 1. // TODO(kaiwang): Be more restrict and return false for any bad input, and // make this a readonly validating function. static bool InspectConstructionArguments(const std::string& name, Sample* minimum, Sample* maximum, size_t* bucket_count); // HistogramBase implementation: HistogramType GetHistogramType() const override; bool HasConstructionArguments(Sample expected_minimum, Sample expected_maximum, size_t expected_bucket_count) const override; void Add(Sample value) override; scoped_ptr SnapshotSamples() const override; void AddSamples(const HistogramSamples& samples) override; bool AddSamplesFromPickle(PickleIterator* iter) override; void WriteHTMLGraph(std::string* output) const override; void WriteAscii(std::string* output) const override; protected: // |ranges| should contain the underflow and overflow buckets. See top // comments for example. Histogram(const std::string& name, Sample minimum, Sample maximum, const BucketRanges* ranges); ~Histogram() override; // HistogramBase implementation: bool SerializeInfoImpl(Pickle* pickle) const override; // Method to override to skip the display of the i'th bucket if it's empty. virtual bool PrintEmptyBucket(size_t index) const; // Get normalized size, relative to the ranges(i). virtual double GetBucketSize(Count current, size_t i) const; // Return a string description of what goes in a given bucket. // Most commonly this is the numeric value, but in derived classes it may // be a name (or string description) given to the bucket. virtual const std::string GetAsciiBucketRange(size_t it) const; private: // Allow tests to corrupt our innards for testing purposes. FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(HistogramTest, BoundsTest); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(HistogramTest, BucketPlacementTest); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(HistogramTest, CorruptBucketBounds); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(HistogramTest, CorruptSampleCounts); FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(HistogramTest, NameMatchTest); friend class StatisticsRecorder; // To allow it to delete duplicates. friend class StatisticsRecorderTest; friend BASE_EXPORT_PRIVATE HistogramBase* DeserializeHistogramInfo( PickleIterator* iter); static HistogramBase* DeserializeInfoImpl(PickleIterator* iter); // Implementation of SnapshotSamples function. scoped_ptr SnapshotSampleVector() const; //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Helpers for emitting Ascii graphic. Each method appends data to output. void WriteAsciiImpl(bool graph_it, const std::string& newline, std::string* output) const; // Find out how large (graphically) the largest bucket will appear to be. double GetPeakBucketSize(const SampleVector& samples) const; // Write a common header message describing this histogram. void WriteAsciiHeader(const SampleVector& samples, Count sample_count, std::string* output) const; // Write information about previous, current, and next buckets. // Information such as cumulative percentage, etc. void WriteAsciiBucketContext(const int64 past, const Count current, const int64 remaining, const size_t i, std::string* output) const; // WriteJSON calls these. void GetParameters(DictionaryValue* params) const override; void GetCountAndBucketData(Count* count, int64* sum, ListValue* buckets) const override; // Does not own this object. Should get from StatisticsRecorder. const BucketRanges* bucket_ranges_; Sample declared_min_; // Less than this goes into the first bucket. Sample declared_max_; // Over this goes into the last bucket. // Finally, provide the state that changes with the addition of each new // sample. scoped_ptr samples_; DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(Histogram); }; //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // LinearHistogram is a more traditional histogram, with evenly spaced // buckets. class BASE_EXPORT LinearHistogram : public Histogram { public: ~LinearHistogram() override; /* minimum should start from 1. 0 is as minimum is invalid. 0 is an implicit default underflow bucket. */ static HistogramBase* FactoryGet(const std::string& name, Sample minimum, Sample maximum, size_t bucket_count, int32 flags); static HistogramBase* FactoryTimeGet(const std::string& name, TimeDelta minimum, TimeDelta maximum, size_t bucket_count, int32 flags); struct DescriptionPair { Sample sample; const char* description; // Null means end of a list of pairs. }; // Create a LinearHistogram and store a list of number/text values for use in // writing the histogram graph. // |descriptions| can be NULL, which means no special descriptions to set. If // it's not NULL, the last element in the array must has a NULL in its // "description" field. static HistogramBase* FactoryGetWithRangeDescription( const std::string& name, Sample minimum, Sample maximum, size_t bucket_count, int32 flags, const DescriptionPair descriptions[]); static void InitializeBucketRanges(Sample minimum, Sample maximum, BucketRanges* ranges); // Overridden from Histogram: HistogramType GetHistogramType() const override; protected: LinearHistogram(const std::string& name, Sample minimum, Sample maximum, const BucketRanges* ranges); double GetBucketSize(Count current, size_t i) const override; // If we have a description for a bucket, then return that. Otherwise // let parent class provide a (numeric) description. const std::string GetAsciiBucketRange(size_t i) const override; // Skip printing of name for numeric range if we have a name (and if this is // an empty bucket). bool PrintEmptyBucket(size_t index) const override; private: friend BASE_EXPORT_PRIVATE HistogramBase* DeserializeHistogramInfo( PickleIterator* iter); static HistogramBase* DeserializeInfoImpl(PickleIterator* iter); // For some ranges, we store a printable description of a bucket range. // If there is no description, then GetAsciiBucketRange() uses parent class // to provide a description. typedef std::map BucketDescriptionMap; BucketDescriptionMap bucket_description_; DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(LinearHistogram); }; //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // BooleanHistogram is a histogram for booleans. class BASE_EXPORT BooleanHistogram : public LinearHistogram { public: static HistogramBase* FactoryGet(const std::string& name, int32 flags); HistogramType GetHistogramType() const override; private: BooleanHistogram(const std::string& name, const BucketRanges* ranges); friend BASE_EXPORT_PRIVATE HistogramBase* DeserializeHistogramInfo( PickleIterator* iter); static HistogramBase* DeserializeInfoImpl(PickleIterator* iter); DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(BooleanHistogram); }; //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // CustomHistogram is a histogram for a set of custom integers. class BASE_EXPORT CustomHistogram : public Histogram { public: // |custom_ranges| contains a vector of limits on ranges. Each limit should be // > 0 and < kSampleType_MAX. (Currently 0 is still accepted for backward // compatibility). The limits can be unordered or contain duplication, but // client should not depend on this. static HistogramBase* FactoryGet(const std::string& name, const std::vector& custom_ranges, int32 flags); // Overridden from Histogram: HistogramType GetHistogramType() const override; // Helper method for transforming an array of valid enumeration values // to the std::vector expected by UMA_HISTOGRAM_CUSTOM_ENUMERATION. // This function ensures that a guard bucket exists right after any // valid sample value (unless the next higher sample is also a valid value), // so that invalid samples never fall into the same bucket as valid samples. // TODO(kaiwang): Change name to ArrayToCustomEnumRanges. static std::vector ArrayToCustomRanges(const Sample* values, size_t num_values); protected: CustomHistogram(const std::string& name, const BucketRanges* ranges); // HistogramBase implementation: bool SerializeInfoImpl(Pickle* pickle) const override; double GetBucketSize(Count current, size_t i) const override; private: friend BASE_EXPORT_PRIVATE HistogramBase* DeserializeHistogramInfo( PickleIterator* iter); static HistogramBase* DeserializeInfoImpl(PickleIterator* iter); static bool ValidateCustomRanges(const std::vector& custom_ranges); static BucketRanges* CreateBucketRangesFromCustomRanges( const std::vector& custom_ranges); DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(CustomHistogram); }; } // namespace base #endif // BASE_METRICS_HISTOGRAM_H_