On 27/03/14 09:27, Alexander Yarygin wrote:
>
> Trace events potentially can have a '-' in their trace system name,
> e.g. kvm on s390 defines kvm-s390:* tracepoints.
> tools/perf could not parse them, because there was no rule for this:
> $ sudo ./perf top -e "kvm-s390:*"
> invalid or unsupported event: 'kvm-s390:*'
>
> This patch allows to '-' to be a part of PE_NAME token, so tracepoints
> with '-' can be parsed by the event_legacy_tracepoint rule.
> Without the patch, perf will not accept such tracepoints in the -e
> option.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Yarygin <yary...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae...@de.ibm.com>
When doing a V2, you should remove my Signed-off-by. ;-)
But at least we can now add my
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae...@de.ibm.com>
Ingo, Peter, Paul,
If you agree with this solution, I would like to have this in the next merge
window - maybe
cc stable if we consider perf stable relevant.
Christian
> ---
> tools/perf/util/parse-events.l | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> index 3432995..ca20da7 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ r{num_raw_hex} { return raw(yyscanner); }
> {num_hex} { return value(yyscanner, 16); }
>
> {modifier_event} { return str(yyscanner, PE_MODIFIER_EVENT); }
> -{name} { return str(yyscanner, PE_NAME); }
> +{name_minus} { return str(yyscanner, PE_NAME); }
> "/" { BEGIN(config); return '/'; }
> - { return '-'; }
> , { BEGIN(event); return ','; }
>
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