Additional fixes for prerender/instant + browsing history.

content/common/view_messages.h

Index: content/common/view_messages.h
diff --git a/content/common/view_messages.h b/content/common/view_messages.h
index 481f5b99fa07ced98633d2fbfc72cef32fc36156..1168bf671260825acda3d398bfbf3471e1157aac 100644
--- a/content/common/view_messages.h
+++ b/content/common/view_messages.h
@@ -744,17 +744,19 @@ IPC_STRUCT_END()
 IPC_MESSAGE_CONTROL1(ViewMsg_SetNextPageID,
                      int32 /* next_page_id */)
 
-// Sets the history length of page_ids for a RenderView to
-// |length| entries, and moves the current page_id to the last
-// entry if it is valid.
-// The main use for this is prerendered pages, but Instant pages also use this.
-// For example, assume that there are 3 entries in the history when a
-// prerendered page is created. The new prerendered page will have a single
-// entry history like [7]. When it is swapped in, we need to extend the history
-// so it has a total length of 4 (3 for the previous history, 1 for the
-// prerendered page), so it looks like [-1 -1 -1 7].
-IPC_MESSAGE_ROUTED1(ViewMsg_SetHistoryLengthAndClear,
-                    int /* length */)
+// Sent to the RenderView when a prerendered or instant page is committed

[jam, 2011/08/15 15:59:10]

content layer doesn't know about prerendering/instant, so the comments shouldn't
mention them.

+// to an existing tab. The existing tab has a history of
+// |merged_history_length| which precedes the current history of pages
+// in the render view. All page_ids >= |minimum_page_id| are appended to
+// this new history in the same order.
+//
+// For example, suppose the history of page_ids in the instant RenderView
+// is [4 7 8]. This instant RenderView is committed, and merged into
+// an existing tab with 3 history items, with every page with page_id >= 7
+// is preserved. The resulting page history is [-1 -1 -1 7 8].
+IPC_MESSAGE_ROUTED2(ViewMsg_SetHistoryLengthAndPrune,
+                    int, /* merge_history_length */
+                    int32 /* minimum_page_id */)
 
 // Sends System Colors corresponding to a set of CSS color keywords
 // down the pipe.