On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 10:12:04AM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
> 
> The Intel events use a dot to separate event name and unit mask.
> Allow dot in names in the scanner, and remove special handling
> of dot as EOF. Also remove the hack in jevents to replace dot
> with underscore. This way dotted events can be specified
> directly by the user.
> 
> I'm not fully sure this change to the scanner is correct
> (what was the dot special case good for?), but I haven't
> found anything that breaks with it so far at least.

can't see anything either

Robert,
does it ring a bell? seems like you introduced it ;-)

thanks,
jirka


> 
> V2: Add the dot to name too, to handle events outside cpu//
> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <suka...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.l |    5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> index 09e738f..13cef3c 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> @@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ event             [^,{}/]+
>  num_dec              [0-9]+
>  num_hex              0x[a-fA-F0-9]+
>  num_raw_hex  [a-fA-F0-9]+
> -name         [a-zA-Z_*?][a-zA-Z0-9_*?]*
> -name_minus   [a-zA-Z_*?][a-zA-Z0-9\-_*?]*
> +name         [a-zA-Z_*?][a-zA-Z0-9_*?.]*
> +name_minus   [a-zA-Z_*?][a-zA-Z0-9\-_*?.]*
>  /* If you add a modifier you need to update check_modifier() */
>  modifier_event       [ukhpGHSDI]+
>  modifier_bp  [rwx]{1,3}
> @@ -165,7 +165,6 @@ modifier_bp       [rwx]{1,3}
>                       return PE_EVENT_NAME;
>               }
>  
> -.            |
>  <<EOF>>              {
>                       BEGIN(INITIAL);
>                       REWIND(0);
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
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