Support saving browser metrics to disk and reading them during next run.

chrome/browser/chrome_browser_field_trials.cc

Index: chrome/browser/chrome_browser_field_trials.cc
diff --git a/chrome/browser/chrome_browser_field_trials.cc b/chrome/browser/chrome_browser_field_trials.cc
index 648167695f6b70b9ca8b5c986e7c773d7d08c2ca..38ac04cc8d970049060509cdb3a2c793d398e0df 100644
--- a/chrome/browser/chrome_browser_field_trials.cc
+++ b/chrome/browser/chrome_browser_field_trials.cc
@@ -8,12 +8,15 @@
 
 #include "base/command_line.h"
 #include "base/feature_list.h"
+#include "base/files/file_path.h"
 #include "base/metrics/field_trial.h"
 #include "base/metrics/histogram_base.h"
 #include "base/metrics/persistent_histogram_allocator.h"
+#include "base/path_service.h"
 #include "base/strings/string_util.h"
 #include "base/time/time.h"
 #include "build/build_config.h"
+#include "chrome/common/chrome_paths.h"
 #include "chrome/common/chrome_switches.h"
 #include "components/metrics/metrics_pref_names.h"
 
@@ -26,19 +29,14 @@
 namespace {
 
 // Check for feature enabling the use of persistent histogram storage and
-// create an appropriate allocator for such if so.
+// enable the global allocator if so.
 void InstantiatePersistentHistograms() {
   if (base::FeatureList::IsEnabled(base::kPersistentHistogramsFeature)) {
-    const char kAllocatorName[] = "BrowserMetrics";
-    // Create persistent/shared memory and allow histograms to be stored in it.
-    // Memory that is not actualy used won't be physically mapped by the system.
-    // BrowserMetrics usage peaked around 95% of 2MiB as of 2016-02-20.
-    base::GlobalHistogramAllocator::CreateWithLocalMemory(
-        3 << 20,     // 3 MiB
-        0x935DDD43,  // SHA1(BrowserMetrics)
-        kAllocatorName);
-    base::GlobalHistogramAllocator::Get()->CreateTrackingHistograms(
-        kAllocatorName);
+    base::GlobalHistogramAllocator::Enable();
+    base::GlobalHistogramAllocator* allocator =
+        base::GlobalHistogramAllocator::Get();
+    DCHECK(allocator);  // Should have been created during startup.
+    allocator->CreateTrackingHistograms(allocator->Name());
   }
 }