perf: Add pipe-specific header read/write and event processing code

This patch makes several changes to allow the perf event stream
to be sent and received over a pipe:

- adds pipe-specific versions of the header read/write code

- adds pipe-specific version of the event processing code

- adds a range of event types to be used for header or other
  pseudo events, above the range used by the kernel

- checks the return value of event handlers, which they can use
  to skip over large events during event processing rather than actually
  reading them into event objects.

- unifies the multiple do_read() functions and updates its
  users.

Note that none of these changes affect the existing perf data
file format or processing - this code only comes into play if
perf output is sent to stdout (or is read from stdin).

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
LKML-Reference: <1270184365-8281-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.h b/tools/perf/util/header.h
index c059f08cf877..6562ece67064 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.h
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ struct perf_file_header {
 	DECLARE_BITMAP(adds_features, HEADER_FEAT_BITS);
 };
 
+struct perf_pipe_file_header {
+	u64				magic;
+	u64				size;
+};
+
 struct perf_header;
 
 int perf_file_header__read(struct perf_file_header *self,
@@ -60,8 +65,9 @@ struct perf_header {
 int perf_header__init(struct perf_header *self);
 void perf_header__exit(struct perf_header *self);
 
-int perf_header__read(struct perf_header *self, int fd);
+int perf_header__read(struct perf_session *session, int fd);
 int perf_header__write(struct perf_header *self, int fd, bool at_exit);
+int perf_header__write_pipe(int fd);
 
 int perf_header__add_attr(struct perf_header *self,
 			  struct perf_header_attr *attr);