Closed
Bug 726761
Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
deserializing Histogram SampleSets shouldn't check count sums
Categories
(Core :: IPC, defect)
Core
IPC
Tracking
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RESOLVED
FIXED
mozilla13
People
(Reporter: froydnj, Assigned: froydnj)
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Details
Attachments
(1 file, 1 obsolete file)
1.02 KB,
patch
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froydnj
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review+
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Details | Diff | Splinter Review |
See bug 707320 comment 57 for the background here.
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Comment 1•13 years ago
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Deserialization shouldn't care whether the data "looks good"; that determination should be left to someone else.
Attachment #596781 -
Flags: review?(jones.chris.g)
Comment on attachment 596781 [details] [diff] [review]
patch
AIUI this check caught a bug in our code. Why do you want to remove it? If you want to change the invariants on histogram state, then do that but update the check here.
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Comment 3•13 years ago
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We check the "invariants" on histogram state elsewhere (e.g. calling FindCorruption on histograms before reflecting them into JS and sending them off). It's not useful to have a check in the deserialization code for this sort of thing because it lands us in the following situation:
- Histogram X existed in memory with (very rare!) differing counts and we happily included/ignored it when sending telemetry pings.
- Histogram X gets serialized at shutdown.
- Histogram X gets deserialized at startup and we think the datafile is corrupt because of this check.
Without the check, we would include/ignore histogram X just as we were doing before.
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Comment 4•13 years ago
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We can also run into the following scenario:
- Histogram X existed in memory with differing counts and we happily included it when sending telemetry pings (because it's not corrupt according to Histogram::FindCorruption).
- Histogram X gets serialized at shutdown.
- Firefox gets upgraded and histogram X does not exist in the new version of Firefox: we decided it was no longer useful, or we are measuring something slightly different and decided to rename it.
- When reading in histogram X's data, we notice that it's "corrupt" and therefore decide the whole file is corrupt. We do this *even though* we don't care about the contents of the data (limitations in the current implementation dictate that we can only send serialized histograms that exist in TelemetryHistogram.h), we just want to read it off the disk.
Checking for corrupt data should be put at a higher level than this.
Comment on attachment 596781 [details] [diff] [review]
patch
Just remove all this code. Hopefully the scheme you describe in the above two comments is documented elsewhere, so we shouldn't need this comment.
r=me with that
Attachment #596781 -
Flags: review?(jones.chris.g) → review+
Assignee | ||
Comment 6•13 years ago
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Address review comments by deleting comments. Carrying over r+.
Attachment #596781 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #597795 -
Flags: review+
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Updated•13 years ago
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Keywords: checkin-needed
Whiteboard: [autoland-try]
Updated•13 years ago
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Whiteboard: [autoland-try] → [autoland-in-queue]
Comment 7•13 years ago
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Autoland Patchset:
Patches: 597795
Branch: mozilla-central => try
Destination: http://hg.mozilla.org/try/pushloghtml?changeset=898595eb9cbf
Try run started, revision 898595eb9cbf. To cancel or monitor the job, see: https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=898595eb9cbf
Comment 8•13 years ago
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Try run for 898595eb9cbf is complete.
Detailed breakdown of the results available here:
https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=898595eb9cbf
Results (out of 212 total builds):
exception: 1
success: 175
warnings: 22
failure: 14
Builds (or logs if builds failed) available at:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/try-builds/autolanduser@mozilla.com-898595eb9cbf
Updated•13 years ago
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Whiteboard: [autoland-in-queue]
Comment 9•13 years ago
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Comment 10•13 years ago
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Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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