perf tools: Introduce per user view

The new --uid command line option will show only the tasks for a given
user, using the proc interface to figure out the existing tasks.

Kernel work is needed to close races at startup, but this should already
be useful in many use cases.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bdnspm000gw2l984a2t53o8z@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.h b/tools/perf/util/util.h
index b9c530cce79a..061dbf8c038d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.h
@@ -246,6 +246,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr;
 
 void event_attr_init(struct perf_event_attr *attr);
 
+uid_t parse_target_uid(const char *str, pid_t tid, pid_t pid);
+
 #define _STR(x) #x
 #define STR(x) _STR(x)