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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.
5 // Histogram is an object that aggregates statistics, and can summarize them in
6 // various forms, including ASCII graphical, HTML, and numerically (as a
7 // vector of numbers corresponding to each of the aggregating buckets).
9 // It supports calls to accumulate either time intervals (which are processed
10 // as integral number of milliseconds), or arbitrary integral units.
12 // For Histogram(exponential histogram), LinearHistogram and CustomHistogram,
13 // the minimum for a declared range is 1 (instead of 0), while the maximum is
14 // (HistogramBase::kSampleType_MAX - 1). Currently you can declare histograms
15 // with ranges exceeding those limits (e.g. 0 as minimal or
16 // HistogramBase::kSampleType_MAX as maximal), but those excesses will be
17 // silently clamped to those limits (for backwards compatibility with existing
18 // code). Best practice is to not exceed the limits.
20 // Each use of a histogram with the same name will reference the same underlying
21 // data, so it is safe to record to the same histogram from multiple locations
22 // in the code. It is a runtime error if all uses of the same histogram do not
23 // agree exactly in type, bucket size and range.
25 // For Histogram and LinearHistogram, the maximum for a declared range should
26 // always be larger (not equal) than minimal range. Zero and
27 // HistogramBase::kSampleType_MAX are implicitly added as first and last ranges,
28 // so the smallest legal bucket_count is 3. However CustomHistogram can have
29 // bucket count as 2 (when you give a custom ranges vector containing only 1
30 // range).
31 // For these 3 kinds of histograms, the max bucket count is always
32 // (Histogram::kBucketCount_MAX - 1).
34 // The buckets layout of class Histogram is exponential. For example, buckets
35 // might contain (sequentially) the count of values in the following intervals:
36 // [0,1), [1,2), [2,4), [4,8), [8,16), [16,32), [32,64), [64,infinity)
37 // That bucket allocation would actually result from construction of a histogram
38 // for values between 1 and 64, with 8 buckets, such as:
39 // Histogram count("some name", 1, 64, 8);
40 // Note that the underflow bucket [0,1) and the overflow bucket [64,infinity)
41 // are also counted by the constructor in the user supplied "bucket_count"
42 // argument.
43 // The above example has an exponential ratio of 2 (doubling the bucket width
44 // in each consecutive bucket. The Histogram class automatically calculates
45 // the smallest ratio that it can use to construct the number of buckets
46 // selected in the constructor. An another example, if you had 50 buckets,
47 // and millisecond time values from 1 to 10000, then the ratio between
48 // consecutive bucket widths will be approximately somewhere around the 50th
49 // root of 10000. This approach provides very fine grain (narrow) buckets
50 // at the low end of the histogram scale, but allows the histogram to cover a
51 // gigantic range with the addition of very few buckets.
53 // Usually we use macros to define and use a histogram, which are defined in
54 // base/metrics/histogram_macros.h. Note: Callers should include that header
55 // directly if they only access the histogram APIs through macros.
57 // Macros use a pattern involving a function static variable, that is a pointer
58 // to a histogram. This static is explicitly initialized on any thread
59 // that detects a uninitialized (NULL) pointer. The potentially racy
60 // initialization is not a problem as it is always set to point to the same
61 // value (i.e., the FactoryGet always returns the same value). FactoryGet
62 // is also completely thread safe, which results in a completely thread safe,
63 // and relatively fast, set of counters. To avoid races at shutdown, the static
64 // pointer is NOT deleted, and we leak the histograms at process termination.
66 #ifndef BASE_METRICS_HISTOGRAM_H_
67 #define BASE_METRICS_HISTOGRAM_H_
69 #include <map>
70 #include <string>
71 #include <vector>
73 #include "base/base_export.h"
74 #include "base/basictypes.h"
75 #include "base/compiler_specific.h"
76 #include "base/gtest_prod_util.h"
77 #include "base/logging.h"
78 #include "base/memory/scoped_ptr.h"
79 #include "base/metrics/bucket_ranges.h"
80 #include "base/metrics/histogram_base.h"
81 // TODO(asvitkine): Migrate callers to to include this directly and remove this.
82 #include "base/metrics/histogram_macros.h"
83 #include "base/metrics/histogram_samples.h"
84 #include "base/time/time.h"
86 namespace base {
88 class BooleanHistogram;
89 class CustomHistogram;
90 class Histogram;
91 class LinearHistogram;
92 class Pickle;
93 class PickleIterator;
94 class SampleVector;
96 class BASE_EXPORT Histogram : public HistogramBase {
97 public:
98 // Initialize maximum number of buckets in histograms as 16,384.
99 static const size_t kBucketCount_MAX;
101 typedef std::vector<Count> Counts;
103 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
104 // For a valid histogram, input should follow these restrictions:
105 // minimum > 0 (if a minimum below 1 is specified, it will implicitly be
106 // normalized up to 1)
107 // maximum > minimum
108 // buckets > 2 [minimum buckets needed: underflow, overflow and the range]
109 // Additionally,
110 // buckets <= (maximum - minimum + 2) - this is to ensure that we don't have
111 // more buckets than the range of numbers; having more buckets than 1 per
112 // value in the range would be nonsensical.
113 static HistogramBase* FactoryGet(const std::string& name,
114 Sample minimum,
115 Sample maximum,
116 size_t bucket_count,
117 int32 flags);
118 static HistogramBase* FactoryTimeGet(const std::string& name,
119 base::TimeDelta minimum,
120 base::TimeDelta maximum,
121 size_t bucket_count,
122 int32 flags);
124 // Overloads of the above two functions that take a const char* |name| param,
125 // to avoid code bloat from the std::string constructor being inlined into
126 // call sites.
127 static HistogramBase* FactoryGet(const char* name,
128 Sample minimum,
129 Sample maximum,
130 size_t bucket_count,
131 int32 flags);
132 static HistogramBase* FactoryTimeGet(const char* name,
133 base::TimeDelta minimum,
134 base::TimeDelta maximum,
135 size_t bucket_count,
136 int32 flags);
138 static void InitializeBucketRanges(Sample minimum,
139 Sample maximum,
140 BucketRanges* ranges);
142 // This constant if for FindCorruption. Since snapshots of histograms are
143 // taken asynchronously relative to sampling, and our counting code currently
144 // does not prevent race conditions, it is pretty likely that we'll catch a
145 // redundant count that doesn't match the sample count. We allow for a
146 // certain amount of slop before flagging this as an inconsistency. Even with
147 // an inconsistency, we'll snapshot it again (for UMA in about a half hour),
148 // so we'll eventually get the data, if it was not the result of a corruption.
149 static const int kCommonRaceBasedCountMismatch;
151 // Check to see if bucket ranges, counts and tallies in the snapshot are
152 // consistent with the bucket ranges and checksums in our histogram. This can
153 // produce a false-alarm if a race occurred in the reading of the data during
154 // a SnapShot process, but should otherwise be false at all times (unless we
155 // have memory over-writes, or DRAM failures).
156 int FindCorruption(const HistogramSamples& samples) const override;
158 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
159 // Accessors for factory construction, serialization and testing.
160 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
161 Sample declared_min() const { return declared_min_; }
162 Sample declared_max() const { return declared_max_; }
163 virtual Sample ranges(size_t i) const;
164 virtual size_t bucket_count() const;
165 const BucketRanges* bucket_ranges() const { return bucket_ranges_; }
167 // This function validates histogram construction arguments. It returns false
168 // if some of the arguments are totally bad.
169 // Note. Currently it allow some bad input, e.g. 0 as minimum, but silently
170 // converts it to good input: 1.
171 // TODO(kaiwang): Be more restrict and return false for any bad input, and
172 // make this a readonly validating function.
173 static bool InspectConstructionArguments(const std::string& name,
174 Sample* minimum,
175 Sample* maximum,
176 size_t* bucket_count);
178 // HistogramBase implementation:
179 HistogramType GetHistogramType() const override;
180 bool HasConstructionArguments(Sample expected_minimum,
181 Sample expected_maximum,
182 size_t expected_bucket_count) const override;
183 void Add(Sample value) override;
184 scoped_ptr<HistogramSamples> SnapshotSamples() const override;
185 void AddSamples(const HistogramSamples& samples) override;
186 bool AddSamplesFromPickle(base::PickleIterator* iter) override;
187 void WriteHTMLGraph(std::string* output) const override;
188 void WriteAscii(std::string* output) const override;
190 protected:
191 // |ranges| should contain the underflow and overflow buckets. See top
192 // comments for example.
193 Histogram(const std::string& name,
194 Sample minimum,
195 Sample maximum,
196 const BucketRanges* ranges);
198 ~Histogram() override;
200 // HistogramBase implementation:
201 bool SerializeInfoImpl(base::Pickle* pickle) const override;
203 // Method to override to skip the display of the i'th bucket if it's empty.
204 virtual bool PrintEmptyBucket(size_t index) const;
206 // Get normalized size, relative to the ranges(i).
207 virtual double GetBucketSize(Count current, size_t i) const;
209 // Return a string description of what goes in a given bucket.
210 // Most commonly this is the numeric value, but in derived classes it may
211 // be a name (or string description) given to the bucket.
212 virtual const std::string GetAsciiBucketRange(size_t it) const;
214 private:
215 // Allow tests to corrupt our innards for testing purposes.
216 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(HistogramTest, BoundsTest);
217 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(HistogramTest, BucketPlacementTest);
218 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(HistogramTest, CorruptBucketBounds);
219 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(HistogramTest, CorruptSampleCounts);
220 FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(HistogramTest, NameMatchTest);
222 friend class StatisticsRecorder; // To allow it to delete duplicates.
223 friend class StatisticsRecorderTest;
225 friend BASE_EXPORT_PRIVATE HistogramBase* DeserializeHistogramInfo(
226 base::PickleIterator* iter);
227 static HistogramBase* DeserializeInfoImpl(base::PickleIterator* iter);
229 // Implementation of SnapshotSamples function.
230 scoped_ptr<SampleVector> SnapshotSampleVector() const;
232 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
233 // Helpers for emitting Ascii graphic. Each method appends data to output.
235 void WriteAsciiImpl(bool graph_it,
236 const std::string& newline,
237 std::string* output) const;
239 // Find out how large (graphically) the largest bucket will appear to be.
240 double GetPeakBucketSize(const SampleVector& samples) const;
242 // Write a common header message describing this histogram.
243 void WriteAsciiHeader(const SampleVector& samples,
244 Count sample_count,
245 std::string* output) const;
247 // Write information about previous, current, and next buckets.
248 // Information such as cumulative percentage, etc.
249 void WriteAsciiBucketContext(const int64 past, const Count current,
250 const int64 remaining, const size_t i,
251 std::string* output) const;
253 // WriteJSON calls these.
254 void GetParameters(DictionaryValue* params) const override;
256 void GetCountAndBucketData(Count* count,
257 int64* sum,
258 ListValue* buckets) const override;
260 // Does not own this object. Should get from StatisticsRecorder.
261 const BucketRanges* bucket_ranges_;
263 Sample declared_min_; // Less than this goes into the first bucket.
264 Sample declared_max_; // Over this goes into the last bucket.
266 // Finally, provide the state that changes with the addition of each new
267 // sample.
268 scoped_ptr<SampleVector> samples_;
270 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(Histogram);
273 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
275 // LinearHistogram is a more traditional histogram, with evenly spaced
276 // buckets.
277 class BASE_EXPORT LinearHistogram : public Histogram {
278 public:
279 ~LinearHistogram() override;
281 /* minimum should start from 1. 0 is as minimum is invalid. 0 is an implicit
282 default underflow bucket. */
283 static HistogramBase* FactoryGet(const std::string& name,
284 Sample minimum,
285 Sample maximum,
286 size_t bucket_count,
287 int32 flags);
288 static HistogramBase* FactoryTimeGet(const std::string& name,
289 TimeDelta minimum,
290 TimeDelta maximum,
291 size_t bucket_count,
292 int32 flags);
294 // Overloads of the above two functions that take a const char* |name| param,
295 // to avoid code bloat from the std::string constructor being inlined into
296 // call sites.
297 static HistogramBase* FactoryGet(const char* name,
298 Sample minimum,
299 Sample maximum,
300 size_t bucket_count,
301 int32 flags);
302 static HistogramBase* FactoryTimeGet(const char* name,
303 TimeDelta minimum,
304 TimeDelta maximum,
305 size_t bucket_count,
306 int32 flags);
308 struct DescriptionPair {
309 Sample sample;
310 const char* description; // Null means end of a list of pairs.
313 // Create a LinearHistogram and store a list of number/text values for use in
314 // writing the histogram graph.
315 // |descriptions| can be NULL, which means no special descriptions to set. If
316 // it's not NULL, the last element in the array must has a NULL in its
317 // "description" field.
318 static HistogramBase* FactoryGetWithRangeDescription(
319 const std::string& name,
320 Sample minimum,
321 Sample maximum,
322 size_t bucket_count,
323 int32 flags,
324 const DescriptionPair descriptions[]);
326 static void InitializeBucketRanges(Sample minimum,
327 Sample maximum,
328 BucketRanges* ranges);
330 // Overridden from Histogram:
331 HistogramType GetHistogramType() const override;
333 protected:
334 LinearHistogram(const std::string& name,
335 Sample minimum,
336 Sample maximum,
337 const BucketRanges* ranges);
339 double GetBucketSize(Count current, size_t i) const override;
341 // If we have a description for a bucket, then return that. Otherwise
342 // let parent class provide a (numeric) description.
343 const std::string GetAsciiBucketRange(size_t i) const override;
345 // Skip printing of name for numeric range if we have a name (and if this is
346 // an empty bucket).
347 bool PrintEmptyBucket(size_t index) const override;
349 private:
350 friend BASE_EXPORT_PRIVATE HistogramBase* DeserializeHistogramInfo(
351 base::PickleIterator* iter);
352 static HistogramBase* DeserializeInfoImpl(base::PickleIterator* iter);
354 // For some ranges, we store a printable description of a bucket range.
355 // If there is no description, then GetAsciiBucketRange() uses parent class
356 // to provide a description.
357 typedef std::map<Sample, std::string> BucketDescriptionMap;
358 BucketDescriptionMap bucket_description_;
360 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(LinearHistogram);
363 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
365 // BooleanHistogram is a histogram for booleans.
366 class BASE_EXPORT BooleanHistogram : public LinearHistogram {
367 public:
368 static HistogramBase* FactoryGet(const std::string& name, int32 flags);
370 // Overload of the above function that takes a const char* |name| param,
371 // to avoid code bloat from the std::string constructor being inlined into
372 // call sites.
373 static HistogramBase* FactoryGet(const char* name, int32 flags);
375 HistogramType GetHistogramType() const override;
377 private:
378 BooleanHistogram(const std::string& name, const BucketRanges* ranges);
380 friend BASE_EXPORT_PRIVATE HistogramBase* DeserializeHistogramInfo(
381 base::PickleIterator* iter);
382 static HistogramBase* DeserializeInfoImpl(base::PickleIterator* iter);
384 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(BooleanHistogram);
387 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
389 // CustomHistogram is a histogram for a set of custom integers.
390 class BASE_EXPORT CustomHistogram : public Histogram {
391 public:
392 // |custom_ranges| contains a vector of limits on ranges. Each limit should be
393 // > 0 and < kSampleType_MAX. (Currently 0 is still accepted for backward
394 // compatibility). The limits can be unordered or contain duplication, but
395 // client should not depend on this.
396 static HistogramBase* FactoryGet(const std::string& name,
397 const std::vector<Sample>& custom_ranges,
398 int32 flags);
400 // Overload of the above function that takes a const char* |name| param,
401 // to avoid code bloat from the std::string constructor being inlined into
402 // call sites.
403 static HistogramBase* FactoryGet(const char* name,
404 const std::vector<Sample>& custom_ranges,
405 int32 flags);
407 // Overridden from Histogram:
408 HistogramType GetHistogramType() const override;
410 // Helper method for transforming an array of valid enumeration values
411 // to the std::vector<int> expected by UMA_HISTOGRAM_CUSTOM_ENUMERATION.
412 // This function ensures that a guard bucket exists right after any
413 // valid sample value (unless the next higher sample is also a valid value),
414 // so that invalid samples never fall into the same bucket as valid samples.
415 // TODO(kaiwang): Change name to ArrayToCustomEnumRanges.
416 static std::vector<Sample> ArrayToCustomRanges(const Sample* values,
417 size_t num_values);
418 protected:
419 CustomHistogram(const std::string& name,
420 const BucketRanges* ranges);
422 // HistogramBase implementation:
423 bool SerializeInfoImpl(base::Pickle* pickle) const override;
425 double GetBucketSize(Count current, size_t i) const override;
427 private:
428 friend BASE_EXPORT_PRIVATE HistogramBase* DeserializeHistogramInfo(
429 base::PickleIterator* iter);
430 static HistogramBase* DeserializeInfoImpl(base::PickleIterator* iter);
432 static bool ValidateCustomRanges(const std::vector<Sample>& custom_ranges);
433 static BucketRanges* CreateBucketRangesFromCustomRanges(
434 const std::vector<Sample>& custom_ranges);
436 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(CustomHistogram);
439 } // namespace base
441 #endif // BASE_METRICS_HISTOGRAM_H_