tracing/hist: Add poll(POLLIN) support on hist file
Add poll syscall support on the `hist` file. The Waiter will be waken up when the histogram is updated with POLLIN. Currently, there is no way to wait for a specific event in userspace. So user needs to peek the `trace` periodicaly, or wait on `trace_pipe`. But it is not a good idea to peek at the `trace` for an event that randomly happens. And `trace_pipe` is not coming back until a page is filled with events. This allows a user to wait for a specific event on the `hist` file. User can set a histogram trigger on the event which they want to monitor and poll() on its `hist` file. Since this poll() returns POLLIN, the next poll() will return soon unless a read() happens on that hist file. NOTE: To read the hist file again, you must set the file offset to 0, but just for monitoring the event, you may not need to read the histogram. Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/173527247756.464571.14236296701625509931.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by:Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by:
Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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