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Message-ID: <52BF73CD.10701@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:58:53 -0500
From: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CC: mingo@...nel.org, dsahern@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] perf tools: Fix bug in 'perf list event_glob'.
On 12/27/2013 02:21 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 06:03:27PM -0500, Dongsheng Yang escreveu:
>> As what the usage showing, we can input a event_glob as an argument to list
>> all symbols. But it does not work well right now.
>>
>> Example:
>> # perf list kvmmmu
>>
>> List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
>>
>> This patch make it work well as follows.
> It works:
>
> List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
> [root@zoo ~]# perf list kvmmmu*:*
> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_pagetable_walk [Tracepoint event]
> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_paging_element [Tracepoint event]
> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_set_accessed_bit [Tracepoint event]
> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_set_dirty_bit [Tracepoint event]
> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_walker_error [Tracepoint event]
> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_get_page [Tracepoint event]
> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_sync_page [Tracepoint event]
> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_unsync_page [Tracepoint event]
> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page [Tracepoint event]
> kvmmmu:mark_mmio_spte [Tracepoint event]
> kvmmmu:handle_mmio_page_fault [Tracepoint event]
> kvmmmu:fast_page_fault [Tracepoint event]
> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_invalidate_zap_all_pages [Tracepoint event]
> kvmmmu:check_mmio_spte [Tracepoint event]
> [root@zoo ~]#
>
> The documentation says, as you repeated above, that a glob can be
> provided, not a _substring_ :-)
Yes, you are right. Sorry for that I misunderstood the word of 'glob'.
Thank you for your explanation. :)
Yang
>
> To achive a result similar to:
>
> [root@zoo ~]# perf list hw
> cpu-cycles OR cycles [Hardware event]
> instructions [Hardware event]
> cache-references [Hardware event]
> cache-misses [Hardware event]
> branch-instructions OR branches [Hardware event]
> branch-misses [Hardware event]
> bus-cycles [Hardware event]
> stalled-cycles-frontend OR idle-cycles-frontend [Hardware event]
> ref-cycles [Hardware event]
> [root@zoo ~]#
>
> We could say that if no ':' is found in the provided string, and it
> doesn't matches one of the other classes, i.e. hw, sw, cache, etc, and
> it is the name of a tracepoint subsystem, then it would be equivalent
> to 'tracepoint_subsys:*', i.e. 'perf list skb' woud be equivalent to:
>
> [root@zoo ~]# perf list skb:*
> skb:kfree_skb [Tracepoint event]
> skb:consume_skb [Tracepoint event]
> skb:skb_copy_datagram_iovec [Tracepoint event]
> [root@zoo ~]#
>
> - Arnaldo
>
>> Verification:
>> # perf list kvmmmu
>>
>> List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
>> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_pagetable_walk [Tracepoint event]
>> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_paging_element [Tracepoint event]
>> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_set_accessed_bit [Tracepoint event]
>> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_set_dirty_bit [Tracepoint event]
>> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_walker_error [Tracepoint event]
>> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_get_page [Tracepoint event]
>> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_sync_page [Tracepoint event]
>> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_unsync_page [Tracepoint event]
>> kvmmmu:kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page [Tracepoint event]
>> kvmmmu:mark_mmio_spte [Tracepoint event]
>> kvmmmu:handle_mmio_page_fault [Tracepoint event]
>> kvmmmu:fast_page_fault [Tracepoint event]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>> tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
>> index 094c28b..d887ea4 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
>> @@ -1236,6 +1236,8 @@ void print_events(const char *event_glob, bool name_only)
>>
>> print_pmu_events(event_glob, name_only);
>>
>> + print_tracepoint_events(event_glob, NULL, name_only);
>> +
>> if (event_glob != NULL)
>> return;
>>
>> @@ -1254,8 +1256,6 @@ void print_events(const char *event_glob, bool name_only)
>> event_type_descriptors[PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT]);
>> printf("\n");
>> }
>> -
>> - print_tracepoint_events(NULL, NULL, name_only);
>> }
>>
>> int parse_events__is_hardcoded_term(struct parse_events_term *term)
>> --
>> 1.8.2.1
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