perf ordered_events: Add 'struct ordered_events_buffer' layer

When ordering events, we use preallocated buffers to store separate
events.  Those buffers currently don't have their own struct, but since
they are basically an array of 'struct ordered_event' objects, we use
the first event to hold buffers data - list head, that holds all buffers
together:

   struct ordered_events {
     ...
     struct ordered_event *buffer;
     ...
   };

   struct ordered_event {
     u64               timestamp;
     u64               file_offset;
     union perf_event  *event;
     struct list_head  list;
   };

This is quite convoluted and error prone as demonstrated by free-ing
issue discovered and fixed by Stephane in here [1].

This patch adds the 'struct ordered_events_buffer' object, that holds
the buffer data and frees it up properly.

[1] - https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=153376761329335&w=2

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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