[Cast] Sanity-check for unbounded queue growth in PacedSender.

media/cast/net/pacing/paced_sender.cc

Index: media/cast/net/pacing/paced_sender.cc
diff --git a/media/cast/net/pacing/paced_sender.cc b/media/cast/net/pacing/paced_sender.cc
index 3dc21b831848433346e1e7e179acfca65dd74b43..6b39f07408ccfbebd7e197b2d8d834a377949f4b 100644
--- a/media/cast/net/pacing/paced_sender.cc
+++ b/media/cast/net/pacing/paced_sender.cc
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 #include "base/big_endian.h"
 #include "base/bind.h"
+#include "base/debug/dump_without_crashing.h"
 #include "base/message_loop/message_loop.h"
 #include "media/cast/logging/logging_impl.h"
 
@@ -20,6 +21,12 @@ static const int64 kPacingIntervalMs = 10;
 static const size_t kPacingMaxBurstsPerFrame = 3;
 static const size_t kMaxDedupeWindowMs = 500;
 
+// "Impossible" upper-bound on the maximum number of packets that should ever be
+// enqueued in the pacer.  This is used to detect bugs, reported as crash dumps.
+static const size_t kHugeQueueLengthSeconds = 10;
+static const size_t kRidiculousNumberOfPackets =
+    kHugeQueueLengthSeconds * (kMaxBurstSize * 1000 / kPacingIntervalMs);
+
 }  // namespace
 
 DedupInfo::DedupInfo() : last_byte_acked_for_audio(0) {}
@@ -54,6 +61,7 @@ PacedSender::PacedSender(
       next_next_max_burst_size_(target_burst_size_),
       current_burst_size_(0),
       state_(State_Unblocked),
+      has_reached_upper_bound_once_(false),
       weak_factory_(this) {
 }
 
@@ -222,6 +230,15 @@ void PacedSender::SendStoredPackets() {
     return;
   }
 
+  // If the queue ever becomes impossibly long, send a crash dump without
+  // actually crashing the process.
+  if (size() > kRidiculousNumberOfPackets && !has_reached_upper_bound_once_) {
+    NOTREACHED();
+    // Please use Cr=Internals-Cast label in bug reports:
+    base::debug::DumpWithoutCrashing();
+    has_reached_upper_bound_once_ = true;
+  }
+
   base::TimeTicks now = clock_->NowTicks();
   // I don't actually trust that PostDelayTask(x - now) will mean that
   // now >= x when the call happens, so check if the previous state was
@@ -244,14 +261,6 @@ void PacedSender::SendStoredPackets() {
     size_t max_burst_size = std::min(
         max_burst_size_,
         std::max(target_burst_size_, size() / kPacingMaxBurstsPerFrame));
-
-    // If the queue is long, issue a warning. Try to limit the number of
-    // warnings issued by only issuing the warning when the burst size
-    // grows. Otherwise we might get 100 warnings per second.
-    if (max_burst_size > next_next_max_burst_size_ && size() > 100) {
-      LOG(WARNING) << "Packet queue is very long:" << size();
-    }
-
     current_max_burst_size_ = std::max(next_max_burst_size_, max_burst_size);
     next_max_burst_size_ = std::max(next_next_max_burst_size_, max_burst_size);
     next_next_max_burst_size_ = max_burst_size;