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, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.h b/tools/perf/util/event.h
index 7f7cf8539cf..5c1eba67130 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/event.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/event.h
@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ struct build_id_event {
 	char			 filename[];
 };
 
+enum perf_header_event_type { /* above any possible kernel type */
+	PERF_RECORD_HEADER_MAX			= 64,
+};
+
 typedef union event_union {
 	struct perf_event_header	header;
 	struct ip_event			ip;