Ádám Kallai 733bc3409b
[BOLT][Perf2bolt] Add support to generate pre-parsed perf data (#171144)
Adding a generator into Perf2bolt is the initial step to support the
large end-to-end tests for Arm SPE. This functionality proves unified format of
pre-parsed profile that Perf2bolt is able to consume.

Why does the test need to have a textual format SPE profile?

* To collect an Arm SPE profile by Linux Perf, it needs to have
an arm developer device which has SPE support.
* To decode SPE data, it also needs to have the proper version of
Linux Perf.
* The minimum required version of Linux Perf is v6.15.

Bypassing these technical difficulties, that easier to prove
a pre-generated textual profile format.

The generator relies on the aggregator work to spawn the required
perf-script jobs based on the the aggregation type, and merges the
results of the pref-script jobs into a single file.
This hybrid profile will contain all required events such as BuildID,
MMAP, TASK, BRSTACK, or MEM event for the aggregation.

Two examples below how to generate a pre-parsed perf data as
an input for ARM SPE aggregation:

`perf2bolt -p perf.data BINARY -o perf.text --spe
--generate-perf-script`

Or for basic aggregation:

`perf2bolt -p perf.data BINARY -o perf.text --ba --generate-perf-script`
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