perf report: Accept fifos as input file

The default input file for perf report is not handled the same way as
perf record does it for its output file. This leads to unexpected
behavior of perf report, etc. E.g.:

 # perf record -a -e cpu-cycles sleep 2 | perf report | cat
 failed to open perf.data: No such file or directory  (try 'perf record' first)

While perf record writes to a fifo, perf report expects perf.data to be
read. This patch changes this to accept fifos as input file.

Applies to the following commands:

 perf annotate
 perf buildid-list
 perf evlist
 perf kmem
 perf lock
 perf report
 perf sched
 perf script
 perf timechart

Also fixes char const* -> const char* type declaration for filename
strings.

v2:
* Prevent potential null pointer access to input_name in
  builtin-report.c. Needed due to removal of patch "perf report: Setup
  browser if stdout is a pipe"

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
index d449645c5ef1..214ba7f9f577 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static int __cmd_annotate(struct perf_annotate *ann)
 	}
 
 	if (total_nr_samples == 0) {
-		ui__warning("The %s file has no samples!\n", ann->input_name);
+		ui__warning("The %s file has no samples!\n", session->filename);
 		goto out_delete;
 	}
 out_delete:
@@ -250,7 +250,6 @@ int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
 			.ordered_samples = true,
 			.ordering_requires_timestamps = true,
 		},
-		.input_name = "perf.data",
 	};
 	const struct option options[] = {
 	OPT_STRING('i', "input", &annotate.input_name, "file",