perf tools: Add FIFO file names as alternative options to --control
authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Wed, 2 Sep 2020 10:57:07 +0000 (13:57 +0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 4 Sep 2020 17:38:15 +0000 (14:38 -0300)
commita8fcbd269b4340c36dbf99b4453bcbfe128d93fb
treecae1fe729dd0558552f4956691a529ec21cbab94
parent1f4390d825cc04e91a276c78f984dd2d7fe01e62
perf tools: Add FIFO file names as alternative options to --control

Enable the --control option to accept file names as an alternative to
file descriptors.

Example:

  $ mkfifo perf.control
  $ mkfifo perf.ack
  $ cat perf.ack &
  [1] 6808
  $ perf record --control fifo:perf.control,perf.ack -- sleep 300 &
  [2] 6810
  $ echo disable > perf.control
  $ Events disabled
  ack

  $ echo enable > perf.control
  $ Events enabled
  ack

  $ echo disable > perf.control
  $ Events disabled
  ack

  $ kill %2
  [ perf record: Woken up 4 times to write data ]
  $ [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.018 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]

  [1]-  Done                    cat perf.ack
  [2]+  Terminated              perf record --control fifo:perf.control,perf.ack -- sleep 300
  $

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200902105707.11491-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
tools/perf/builtin-record.c
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
tools/perf/util/evlist.c
tools/perf/util/evlist.h
tools/perf/util/record.h
tools/perf/util/stat.h