[RFC V3 3/3] perf pmu: Auto-merge PMU events created by prefix or glob match

2018-03-06 Thread Agustin Vega-Frias
Auto-merge for these events was disabled when auto-merging of non-alias events was disabled in commit 63ce844 (perf stat: Only auto-merge events that are PMU aliases). Non-merging of legacy events is preserved: $ ./perf stat -ag -e cache-misses,cache-misses sleep 1 Performance counter

[RFC V3 3/3] perf pmu: Auto-merge PMU events created by prefix or glob match

2018-03-06 Thread Agustin Vega-Frias
Auto-merge for these events was disabled when auto-merging of non-alias events was disabled in commit 63ce844 (perf stat: Only auto-merge events that are PMU aliases). Non-merging of legacy events is preserved: $ ./perf stat -ag -e cache-misses,cache-misses sleep 1 Performance counter