[RFC 00/10] perf pollfd series

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Hi,

	This is an alternative series to the one Jiri Olsa posted to use the
fixes he made to the kernel side to allow tooling to notice that a thread had
exited by looking at the pollfd.revents looking for POLLHUP notifications.

	Once all event file descriptors are removed from the evlist pollfd array,
tools can make a decision about exiting or telling the user about what happened,
asking to guidance on what to do next.

	The main difference in this approach is that a new class, which Jiri
called 'poller' and I called 'fdarray', grew up from what was in evlist->pollfd
and associated operations, while Jiri first introduced a new class and then
made tooling use it.

	The details of the implementation should be clear on the changelog
comments, please let me know if you see any problems, and if I can have your
acked-by/tested-by/whatever-else tags to get this moving forward.

	Ah, there is still one missing thing which is to make the hists browser
in live mode be notified that all monitored events are POLLHUP'ed, will get
to that in followup patches.

	The kernel bits were sent together with my latest pull req to Ingo,
this series is on top of that branch and is available at:

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git perf/pollfd

- Arnaldo

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (10):
  perf evlist: Introduce perf_evlist__filter_pollfd method
  perf tests: Add test for perf_evlist__filter_pollfd()
  perf evlist: Monitor POLLERR and POLLHUP events too
  perf record: Filter out POLLHUP'ed file descriptors
  perf trace: Filter out POLLHUP'ed file descriptors
  perf evlist: Allow growing pollfd on add method
  perf tests: Add pollfd growing test
  perf kvm stat live: Use perf_evlist__add_pollfd() instead of local equivalent
  perf evlist: Introduce poll method for common code idiom
  tools lib api: Adopt fdarray class from perf's evlist