perf daemon: Add daemon command
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Mon, 8 Feb 2021 20:08:45 +0000 (21:08 +0100)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 9 Feb 2021 18:42:57 +0000 (15:42 -0300)
commitd450bc501fbdceb9d71663ba8192b72f01001bf1
treef3bcd58b5b22716c47889de312522d86741b92f1
parent8524711d2cf3072d28966e0c40811704e63139c6
perf daemon: Add daemon command

Add a daemon skeleton with a minimal base (non) functionality, covering
various setup in start command.

Add an initial perf-daemon.txt with basic info.

This is in response to pople asking for the possibility to be able run
record long running sessions on the background.

The patchset that starts with this adds support to configure and run
record sessions on background via new 'perf daemon' command.

This is useful for being able to use perf as a flight recorder that one
can interact with asking for events to be enabled or disabled, added or
removed, etc.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Budankov <abudankov@huawei.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210208200908.1019149-2-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Build
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-daemon.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/perf/builtin-daemon.c [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/perf/builtin.h
tools/perf/command-list.txt
tools/perf/perf.c