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// Copyright 2019 The Abseil Authors.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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//
//
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// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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#include "absl/profiling/internal/exponential_biased.h"
#include <stdint.h>
#include <algorithm>
#include <atomic>
#include <cmath>
#include <limits>
#include "absl/base/attributes.h"
#include "absl/base/optimization.h"
namespace absl {
ABSL_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
namespace profiling_internal {
// The algorithm generates a random number between 0 and 1 and applies the
// inverse cumulative distribution function for an exponential. Specifically:
// Let m be the inverse of the sample period, then the probability
// distribution function is m*exp(-mx) so the CDF is
// p = 1 - exp(-mx), so
// q = 1 - p = exp(-mx)
// log_e(q) = -mx
// -log_e(q)/m = x
// log_2(q) * (-log_e(2) * 1/m) = x
// In the code, q is actually in the range 1 to 2**26, hence the -26 below
int64_t ExponentialBiased::GetSkipCount(int64_t mean) {
if (ABSL_PREDICT_FALSE(!initialized_)) {
Initialize();
}
uint64_t rng = NextRandom(rng_);
rng_ = rng;
// Take the top 26 bits as the random number
// (This plus the 1<<58 sampling bound give a max possible step of
// 5194297183973780480 bytes.)
// The uint32_t cast is to prevent a (hard-to-reproduce) NAN
// under piii debug for some binaries.
double q = static_cast<uint32_t>(rng >> (kPrngNumBits - 26)) + 1.0;
// Put the computed p-value through the CDF of a geometric.
double interval = bias_ + (std::log2(q) - 26) * (-std::log(2.0) * mean);
// Very large values of interval overflow int64_t. To avoid that, we will
// cheat and clamp any huge values to (int64_t max)/2. This is a potential
// source of bias, but the mean would need to be such a large value that it's
// not likely to come up. For example, with a mean of 1e18, the probability of
// hitting this condition is about 1/1000. For a mean of 1e17, standard
// calculators claim that this event won't happen.
if (interval > static_cast<double>(std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::max() / 2)) {
// Assume huge values are bias neutral, retain bias for next call.
return std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::max() / 2;
}
double value = std::rint(interval);
bias_ = interval - value;
return value;
}
int64_t ExponentialBiased::GetStride(int64_t mean) {
return GetSkipCount(mean - 1) + 1;
}
void ExponentialBiased::Initialize() {
// We don't get well distributed numbers from `this` so we call NextRandom() a
// bunch to mush the bits around. We use a global_rand to handle the case
// where the same thread (by memory address) gets created and destroyed
// repeatedly.
ABSL_CONST_INIT static std::atomic<uint32_t> global_rand(0);
uint64_t r = reinterpret_cast<uint64_t>(this) +
global_rand.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_relaxed);
for (int i = 0; i < 20; ++i) {
r = NextRandom(r);
}
rng_ = r;
initialized_ = true;
}
} // namespace profiling_internal
ABSL_NAMESPACE_END
} // namespace absl