perf: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info

With the advert of container technologies like docker, that depend on
namespaces for isolation, there is a need for tracing support for
namespaces. This patch introduces new PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES event for
recording namespaces related info. By recording info for every
namespace, it is left to userspace to take a call on the definition of a
container and trace containers by updating perf tool accordingly.

Each namespace has a combination of device and inode numbers. Though
every namespace has the same device number currently, that may change in
future to avoid the need for a namespace of namespaces. Considering such
possibility, record both device and inode numbers separately for each
namespace.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <[email protected]>
Cc: Aravinda Prasad <[email protected]>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Sargun Dhillon <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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