In particular this tries to capture for posterity some of the early
challenges we had with using the core perf infrastructure in case we
ever want to revisit adapting perf for device metrics.

Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Robert Bragg <robert@sixbynine.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sourab Gupta <sourab.gupta@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161107194957.3385-12-robert@sixbynine.org