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>
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