From: Steven Rostedt The handling of backslashes was broken. It would stop parsing when accountering one. Also, '\n', '\t', '\r' and '\\' were not converted. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c index 2fee75f..cae88de 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c @@ -522,7 +522,10 @@ static enum event_type __read_token(char **tok) last_ch = ch; ch = __read_char(); buf[i++] = ch; - } while (ch != quote_ch && last_ch != '\\'); + /* the '\' '\' will cancel itself */ + if (ch == '\\' && last_ch == '\\') + last_ch = 0; + } while (ch != quote_ch || last_ch == '\\'); /* remove the last quote */ i--; goto out; @@ -2325,7 +2328,27 @@ static void pretty_print(void *data, int size, struct event *event) for (; *ptr; ptr++) { ls = 0; - if (*ptr == '%') { + if (*ptr == '\\') { + ptr++; + switch (*ptr) { + case 'n': + printf("\n"); + break; + case 't': + printf("\t"); + break; + case 'r': + printf("\r"); + break; + case '\\': + printf("\\"); + break; + default: + printf("%c", *ptr); + break; + } + + } else if (*ptr == '%') { saveptr = ptr; show_func = 0; cont_process: -- 1.6.3.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/