perf tools: Add 'ping' control command
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Sat, 26 Dec 2020 23:20:38 +0000 (00:20 +0100)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:34:21 +0000 (14:34 -0300)
commit47fddcb479e73c341fb414e40a89572dacadd360
tree6a968b553d33efc8b1abb4b1814650a23c46f365
parentf186cd614878dc886edea5df42ca3225d5ab97ea
perf tools: Add 'ping' control command

Add a control 'ping' command to detect if perf is up and its control
interface is operational.

It will be used in following daemon patches to synchronize with record
session - when control interface is up and running, we know that perf
record is monitoring and ready to receive signals.

Example session:

  terminal 1:

    # mkfifo control ack
    # perf record --control=fifo:control,ack

  terminal 2:

    # echo ping > control
    # cat ack
    ack

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Budankov <abudankov@huawei.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201226232038.390883-5-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
tools/perf/builtin-record.c
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
tools/perf/util/evlist.c
tools/perf/util/evlist.h