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Message-ID: <20121120165019.GP2504@rric.localhost>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:50:19 +0100
From: Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@....ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: perf: POWER-event translation questions
On 09.11.12 11:26:26, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Sukadev Bhattiprolu
> <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 2. Can we allow hyphens in the {name} token (please see my change to
> > util/parse-events.l below). With this change, I can run:
> >
> The current code does not support this but Andi fixed that in his HSW patch
> and I use it for the PEBS-LL patch series as well.
>
> > perf stat -e cpu/cmplu-stall-bru /tmp/nop
> >
> > without any changes to the user level tool (parse-events.l) I have
> > tested some common cases, not sure if it will break something :-)
But ...
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> > index c87efc1..1967bb2 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> > @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ event [^,{}/]+
> > num_dec [0-9]+
> > num_hex 0x[a-fA-F0-9]+
> > num_raw_hex [a-fA-F0-9]+
> > -name [a-zA-Z_*?][a-zA-Z0-9_*?]*
> > +name [-a-zA-Z_*?][-a-zA-Z0-9_*?]*
^
... I wouldn't allow hyphens at the beginning of a name.
And, I am wondering if parsing reserved names like 'cpu-cycles' works
too, e.g. cpu/cpu-cycles-foobar/. There are many reserved words in the
lexer with hyphens in it. This might cause unexpected problems.
-Robert
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