perf_counter: Add event overlow handling

Alternative method of mmap() data output handling that provides
better overflow management and a more reliable data stream.

Unlike the previous method, that didn't have any user->kernel
feedback and relied on userspace keeping up, this method relies on
userspace writing its last read position into the control page.

It will ensure new output doesn't overwrite not-yet read events,
new events for which there is no space left are lost and the
overflow counter is incremented, providing exact event loss
numbers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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