------- Comment From hemks...@in.ibm.com 2016-07-22 12:48 EDT-------
Patches for this feature are upstream now (in tip). This was accepted over 
multiple patchsets. Here is a list of commits which enable this feature :
These commits are in "master" branch of kernel "tip" tree.

e5dc848356ecf6ea8d27d641c4d7ad8d42fe92b "perf test: Add a test case for SDT 
event"
e26e63be64a108c1fd12020b93b5b447ffe0532b "perf build: Add sdt feature detection"
7e9fca51fbf8430e27fb6b29299eda575e3f00cf "perf probe: Support a special SDT 
probe format"
a598180aa1279bac4d24dfc85cd2d78553c4210d "perf probe: Support @BUILDID or @FILE 
suffix for SDT events"
40218daea1db1f95f1f10e58ebd43b8adf1c6c61 "perf list: Show SDT and pre-cached 
events"
1de7b8bf728fd8d51b0cc644003d0694c6e0feef "perf probe: Search SDT/cached event 
from all probe caches"
42bba263eb58800b6239a0cb35ac17fd29379277 "perf probe: Allow wildcard for cached 
events"
05bf2c8a2a819132b4a8f35d4315ff22e8e84a20 "perf probe-cache: Add 
for_each_probe_cache_entry() wrapper"
c3492a3a4e58117f18d96125e67b0bed7c4231e1 "perf probe: Make --list show only 
available cached events"
36a009fe07bdecd201335f982babb8af34b603e2 "perf probe: Accept %sdt and %cached 
event name"
1c1a3a4729aae712c55e001e151ef008d030d4a7 "perf tools: Add feature detection for 
gelf_getnote()"
6430a94ead2a4c8f350441351a735303eb6d1c8a "perf buildid-cache: Scan and import 
user SDT events to probe cache"
8d993d96901f55d26e083390aae80fd02cbff7aa "perf probe: Add group name support"
060fa0c7a3e0bb4f1426ee79dfd38e2a4c80067a "perf sdt: ELF support for SDT"
2492c465ad3ae6860ebfff1c9032865017835e70 "perf build: Add feature detection for 
libelf's elf_getshdrstrndx()"

Thanks,
Hemant

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