perf evlist: Introduce side band thread

This patch introduces side band thread that captures extended
information for events like PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT.

This new thread uses its own evlist that uses ring buffer with very low
watermark for lower latency.

To use side band thread, we need to:

1. add side band event(s) by calling perf_evlist__add_sb_event();
2. calls perf_evlist__start_sb_thread();
3. at the end of perf run, perf_evlist__stop_sb_thread().

In the next patch, we use this thread to handle PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT.

Committer notes:

Add fix by Jiri Olsa for when te sb_tread can't get started and then at
the end the stop_sb_thread() segfaults when joining the (non-existing)
thread.

That can happen when running 'perf top' or 'perf record' as a normal
user, for instance.

Further checks need to be done on top of this to more graciously handle
these possible failure scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190312053051.2690567-15-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index cc578e02e08f..0f2c6c93d721 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ struct perf_evsel_config_term {
 
 struct perf_stat_evsel;
 
+typedef int (perf_evsel__sb_cb_t)(union perf_event *event, void *data);
+
 /** struct perf_evsel - event selector
  *
  * @evlist - evlist this evsel is in, if it is in one.
@@ -151,6 +153,10 @@ struct perf_evsel {
 	bool			collect_stat;
 	bool			weak_group;
 	const char		*pmu_name;
+	struct {
+		perf_evsel__sb_cb_t	*cb;
+		void			*data;
+	} side_band;
 };
 
 union u64_swap {