linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/12] add perf counter support

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Message-ID: <20090811121711.GA31549@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:17:11 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
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


* 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
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