perf evlist: Add API to pause/resume

perf_evlist__toggle_{pause,resume}() are introduced to pause/resume
events in an evlist. Utilize PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT ioctl.

Following commits use them to ensure overwrite ring buffer is paused
before reading.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463987628-163563-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
[ Return -1, like all other ioctl() usage in evlist.c, rename 'pause'
  arg to avoid breaking the build on ubuntu 12.04 and other old systems ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 1a370db02a8c..904523a2be90 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -679,6 +679,33 @@ static struct perf_evsel *perf_evlist__event2evsel(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
         return NULL;
 }
 
+static int perf_evlist__set_paused(struct perf_evlist *evlist, bool value)
+{
+        int i;
+
+        for (i = 0; i < evlist->nr_mmaps; i++) {
+                int fd = evlist->mmap[i].fd;
+                int err;
+
+                if (fd < 0)
+                        continue;
+                err = ioctl(fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT, value ? 1 : 0);
+                if (err)
+                        return err;
+        }
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int perf_evlist__pause(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
+{
+        return perf_evlist__set_paused(evlist, true);
+}
+
+int perf_evlist__resume(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
+{
+        return perf_evlist__set_paused(evlist, false);
+}
+
 /* When check_messup is true, 'end' must points to a good entry */
 static union perf_event *
 perf_mmap__read(struct perf_mmap *md, bool check_messup, u64 start,
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
index 0d165b1d8f77..97090b70976d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ void perf_evlist__mmap_read_catchup(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int idx);
 
 void perf_evlist__mmap_consume(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int idx);
 
+int perf_evlist__pause(struct perf_evlist *evlist);
+int perf_evlist__resume(struct perf_evlist *evlist);
 int perf_evlist__open(struct perf_evlist *evlist);
 void perf_evlist__close(struct perf_evlist *evlist);