perf: Add AUX record

When there's new data in the AUX space, output a record indicating its
offset and size and a set of flags, such as PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED, to
mean the described data was truncated to fit in the ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-7-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

kernel/events/core.c

@@ -5916,6 +5916,40 @@ void perf_event_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	perf_event_mmap_event(&mmap_event);
 }
 
+void perf_event_aux_event(struct perf_event *event, unsigned long head,
+			  unsigned long size, u64 flags)
+{
+	struct perf_output_handle handle;
+	struct perf_sample_data sample;
+	struct perf_aux_event {
+		struct perf_event_header	header;
+		u64				offset;
+		u64				size;
+		u64				flags;
+	} rec = {
+		.header = {
+			.type = PERF_RECORD_AUX,
+			.misc = 0,
+			.size = sizeof(rec),
+		},
+		.offset		= head,
+		.size		= size,
+		.flags		= flags,
+	};
+	int ret;
+
+	perf_event_header__init_id(&rec.header, &sample, event);
+	ret = perf_output_begin(&handle, event, rec.header.size);
+
+	if (ret)
+		return;
+
+	perf_output_put(&handle, rec);
+	perf_event__output_id_sample(event, &handle, &sample);
+
+	perf_output_end(&handle);
+}
+
 /*
  * IRQ throttle logging
  */