perf record: Implement -z,--compression_level[=<n>] option

Implemented -z,--compression_level[=<n>] option that enables compression
of mmaped kernel data buffers content in runtime during perf record mode
collection. Default option value is 1 (fastest compression).

Compression overhead has been measured for serial and AIO streaming when
profiling matrix multiplication workload:

      -------------------------------------------------------------
      | SERIAL			  | AIO-1                       |
  ----------------------------------------------------------------|
  |-z | OVH(x) | ratio(x) size(MiB) | OVH(x) | ratio(x) size(MiB) |
  |---------------------------------------------------------------|
  | 0 | 1,00   | 1,000    179,424   | 1,00   | 1,000    187,527   |
  | 1 | 1,04   | 8,427    181,148   | 1,01   | 8,474    188,562   |
  | 2 | 1,07   | 8,055    186,953   | 1,03   | 7,912    191,773   |
  | 3 | 1,04   | 8,283    181,908   | 1,03   | 8,220    191,078   |
  | 5 | 1,09   | 8,101    187,705   | 1,05   | 7,780    190,065   |
  | 8 | 1,05   | 9,217    179,191   | 1,12   | 6,111    193,024   |
  -----------------------------------------------------------------

OVH = (Execution time with -z N) / (Execution time with -z 0)

ratio - compression ratio
size  - number of bytes that was compressed

	size ~= trace size x ratio

Committer notes:

Testing it I noticed that it failed to disable build id processing when
compression is enabled, and as we'd have to uncompress everything to
look for the PERF_RECORD_{MMAP,SAMPLE,etc} to figure out which build ids
to read from DSOs, we better disable build id processing when
compression is enabled, logging with pr_debug() when doing so:

Original patch:

  # perf record -z2
  ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  0x1746e0 [0x76]: failed to process type: 81 [Invalid argument]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.568 MB perf.data, compressed (original 0.452 MB, ratio is 3.995) ]
  #

After auto-disabling build id processing when compression is enabled:

  $ perf record -z2 sleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.001 MB perf.data, compressed (original 0.001 MB, ratio is 2.292) ]
  $ perf record -v -z2 sleep 1
  Compression enabled, disabling build id collection at the end of the session.
  <SNIP extra -v pr_debug() messages>
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.001 MB perf.data, compressed (original 0.001 MB, ratio is 2.305) ]
  $

Also, with parts of the patch originally after this one moved to just
before this one we get:

  $ perf record -z2 sleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.001 MB perf.data, compressed (original 0.001 MB, ratio is 2.371) ]
  $ perf report -D | grep COMPRESS
  0 0x1b8 [0x155]: PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED: unhandled!
  0 0x30d [0x80]: PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED: unhandled!
        COMPRESSED events:          2
        COMPRESSED events:          0
  $

I.e. when faced with PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED that we still have no code
to process, we just show it as not being handled, skip them and
continue, while before we had:

  $ perf report -D | grep COMPRESS
  0x1b8 [0x169]: failed to process type: 81 [Invalid argument]
  Error:
  failed to process sample
  0 0x1b8 [0x169]: PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED
  $

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9ff06518-ae63-a908-e44d-5d9e56dd66d9@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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