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Date:	Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:25:09 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	laijs@...fujitsu.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, peterz@...radead.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, jiayingz@...gle.com,
	mbligh@...gle.com, lizf@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/12] add perf counter support

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 02:17:11PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 04:53:02PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> > > Make 'perf stat -e syscalls:sys_enter_blah' work with syscall style tracepoints.
> > 
> > 
> > It would be nice to also be able to type:
> > 
> > perf stat -e syscalls:blah
> > 
> > and then having both enter/exit counters.
> 
> Plus wildcard/regex support would be nice as well in the listing of 
> events. That way one could do a shortcut of:
> 
>  perf stat -e syscalls:*
> 
> to trace all syscalls. Or:
> 
>  perf stat -e syscalls:*read*
> 
> to see all the read variants - etc.
> 
> 	Ingo


Plus filters in syscalls field. Because arguments are wrapped and post-processed,
they are not treated as usual fields.
I must confess this part is not trivial though.

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