perf_counter tools: Rework the file format

Create a structured file format that includes the full
perf_counter_attr and all its relevant counter IDs so that
the reporting program has full information.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.h b/tools/perf/util/header.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b5ef53ad4c7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.h
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#ifndef _PERF_HEADER_H
+#define _PERF_HEADER_H
+
+#include "../../../include/linux/perf_counter.h"
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include "types.h"
+
+struct perf_header_attr {
+	struct perf_counter_attr attr;
+	int ids, size;
+	u64 *id;
+	off_t id_offset;
+};
+
+struct perf_header {
+	int frozen;
+	int attrs, size;
+	struct perf_header_attr **attr;
+	off_t attr_offset;
+	u64 data_offset;
+	u64 data_size;
+};
+
+struct perf_header *perf_header__read(int fd);
+void perf_header__write(struct perf_header *self, int fd);
+
+void perf_header__add_attr(struct perf_header *self,
+			   struct perf_header_attr *attr);
+
+struct perf_header_attr *
+perf_header_attr__new(struct perf_counter_attr *attr);
+void perf_header_attr__add_id(struct perf_header_attr *self, u64 id);
+
+
+struct perf_header *perf_header__new(void);
+
+#endif /* _PERF_HEADER_H */