On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 05:08:12PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote: > > Enable complex event names containing [.:=,] symbols to be encoded into Perf > trace using name= modifier e.g. like this: > > perf record -e > cpu/name=\'OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM\',\ > period=0x3567e0,event=0x3c,cmask=0x1/Duk ./futex > > Below is how it looks like in the report output. Please note explicit escaped > quoting at cmdline string in the header so that thestring can be directly > reused > for another collection in shell:
Patch looks good, but new syntax also needs to be documented in some manpage (e.g. perf list) -Andi
