perf/core: Try parent PMU first when initializing a child event

perf has additional overhead when monitoring the task which
frequently generates child tasks.

perf_init_event() is one of the hotspots for the additional overhead:

Currently, to get the PMU, it tries to search the type in pmu_idr at
first. But it is not always successful, especially for the widely used
PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE events. So it has to go to the
slow path which go through the whole PMUs list.

It will be a big performance issue, if the PMUs list is long (e.g. server
with many uncore boxes) and the task frequently generates child tasks.

The child event inherits its parent event. So the child event should
try its parent PMU first.

Here is some data from the overhead test on Broadwell server:

  perf record -e $TEST_EVENTS -- ./loop.sh 50000

  loop.sh
    start=$(date +%s%N)
    i=0
    while [ "$i" -le "$1" ]
    do
            date > /dev/null
            i=`expr $i + 1`
    done
    end=$(date +%s%N)
    elapsed=`expr $end - $start`

  Event#	Original elapsed time	Elapsed time with patch		delta
  1		196,573,192,397		189,162,029,998			-3.77%
  2		257,567,753,013		241,620,788,683			-6.19%
  4		398,730,726,971		370,518,938,714			-7.08%
  8		824,983,761,120		740,702,489,329			-10.22%
  16		1,883,411,923,498	1,672,027,508,355		-11.22%

... which shows a nice performance improvement.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[ Tidied up the changelog and the code comment. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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