perf top: Use cond variable instead of a lock

Use conditional variable logic to synchronize between the reading and
processing threads. Currently it's done by having mutex around rotation
code.

Using a POSIX cond variable to sync both threads after queues rotation:

  Process thread:

    - Detects data
    - Switches queues
    - Sets rotate variable
    - Waits in pthread_cond_wait()

  Read thread:

    - Detects rotate is set
    - Kicks the process thread with a pthread_cond_signal()

After this rotation is safely completed and both threads can continue
with the new queue.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3rdeg23rv3brvy1pwt3igvyw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/top.h b/tools/perf/util/top.h
index 5f503293cfd8..5bce62ebcf14 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/top.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/top.h
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ struct perf_top {
 	struct {
 		struct ordered_events	*in;
 		struct ordered_events	 data[2];
-		pthread_mutex_t		 lock;
+		bool			 rotate;
+		pthread_mutex_t		 mutex;
+		pthread_cond_t		 cond;
 	} qe;
 };