Persist setup metrics and have Chrome report them during UMA upload.

base/metrics/statistics_recorder.h

 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 // StatisticsRecorder holds all Histograms and BucketRanges that are used by
 // Histograms in the system. It provides a general place for
 // Histograms/BucketRanges to register, and supports a global API for accessing
 // (i.e., dumping, or graphing) the data.
 
 #ifndef BASE_METRICS_STATISTICS_RECORDER_H_
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   // FindCallback retrieves the callback for the histogram referred to by
   // |histogram_name|, or a null callback if no callback exists for this
   // histogram. This method is thread safe.
   static OnSampleCallback FindCallback(const std::string& histogram_name);
 
   // Clears all of the known histograms and resets static variables to a
   // state that allows a new initialization.
   static void ResetForTesting();
 
+  // Removes a histogram from the internal set of known ones. This can be
+  // necessary during testing persistent histograms where the underlying
+  // memory is being released.
+  static void ForgetHistogramForTesting(const std::string& name);
+
  private:
   // We keep a map of callbacks to histograms, so that as histograms are
   // created, we can set the callback properly.
   typedef std::map<std::string, OnSampleCallback> CallbackMap;
 
   // We keep all |bucket_ranges_| in a map, from checksum to a list of
   // |bucket_ranges_|.  Checksum is calculated from the |ranges_| in
   // |bucket_ranges_|.
   typedef std::map<uint32_t, std::list<const BucketRanges*>*> RangesMap;
 
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   // Lock protects access to above maps.
   static base::Lock* lock_;
 
   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(StatisticsRecorder);
 };
 
 }  // namespace base
 
 #endif  // BASE_METRICS_STATISTICS_RECORDER_H_