Closed Bug 726761 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

deserializing Histogram SampleSets shouldn't check count sums

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(Core :: IPC, defect)

defect
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normal

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RESOLVED FIXED
mozilla13

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(Reporter: froydnj, Assigned: froydnj)

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(1 file, 1 obsolete file)

See bug 707320 comment 57 for the background here.
Attached patch patch (obsolete) — Splinter Review
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.
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.
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+
Attached patch patchSplinter Review
Address review comments by deleting comments. Carrying over r+.
Attachment #596781 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #597795 - Flags: review+
Keywords: checkin-needed
Whiteboard: [autoland-try]
Whiteboard: [autoland-try] → [autoland-in-queue]
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
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
Whiteboard: [autoland-in-queue]
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Keywords: checkin-needed
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla13
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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