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Message-ID: <tip-69fef0d2e2c2c049ef4207a52e78b50d527bd85a@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:18:55 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	acme@...radead.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: [tip:perf/pebs] perf: Add attr->precise support to raw event parsing

Commit-ID:  69fef0d2e2c2c049ef4207a52e78b50d527bd85a
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/69fef0d2e2c2c049ef4207a52e78b50d527bd85a
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
AuthorDate: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:57:24 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:23:32 +0100

perf: Add attr->precise support to raw event parsing

Minimal userspace interface to the new 'precise' events flag.

Can be used like "perf top -e r00c0p" which will use PEBS to sample
retired instructions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
Cc: paulus@...ba.org
Cc: eranian@...gle.com
Cc: robert.richter@....com
Cc: fweisbec@...il.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.468665803@...llo.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 05d0c5c..a201445 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -656,6 +656,10 @@ parse_raw_event(const char **strp, struct perf_event_attr *attr)
 		return EVT_FAILED;
 	n = hex2u64(str + 1, &config);
 	if (n > 0) {
+		if (str[n+1] == 'p') {
+			attr->precise = 1;
+			n++;
+		}
 		*strp = str + n + 1;
 		attr->type = PERF_TYPE_RAW;
 		attr->config = config;
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