perf: add perf-inject builtin

Currently, perf 'live mode' writes build-ids at the end of the
session, which isn't actually useful for processing live mode events.

What would be better would be to have the build-ids sent before any of
the samples that reference them, which can be done by processing the
event stream and retrieving the build-ids on the first hit.  Doing
that in perf-record itself, however, is off-limits.

This patch introduces perf-inject, which does the same job while
leaving perf-record untouched.  Normal mode perf still records the
build-ids at the end of the session as it should, but for live mode,
perf-inject can be injected in between the record and report steps
e.g.:

perf record -o - ./hackbench 10 | perf inject -v -b | perf report -v -i -

perf-inject reads a perf-record event stream and repipes it to stdout.
At any point the processing code can inject other events into the
event stream - in this case build-ids (-b option) are read and
injected as needed into the event stream.

Build-ids are just the first user of perf-inject - potentially
anything that needs userspace processing to augment the trace stream
with additional information could make use of this facility.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1272696080-16435-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.h b/tools/perf/util/session.h
index 61ca92e58ad4..f2b2c6a3a49d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ struct perf_session {
 	u64			sample_type;
 	int			fd;
 	bool			fd_pipe;
+	bool			repipe;
 	int			cwdlen;
 	char			*cwd;
 	struct ordered_samples	ordered_samples;
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ struct perf_event_ops {
 	bool	ordered_samples;
 };
 
-struct perf_session *perf_session__new(const char *filename, int mode, bool force);
+struct perf_session *perf_session__new(const char *filename, int mode, bool force, bool repipe);
 void perf_session__delete(struct perf_session *self);
 
 void perf_event_header__bswap(struct perf_event_header *self);