linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/10] perf, tools: Expand PMU events by prefix match

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Message-ID: <20161017113519.GC24552@krava>
Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:35:19 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, jolsa@...nel.org, sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        eranian@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] perf, tools: Expand PMU events by prefix match

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 02:15:30PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> When the user specifies a pmu directly, expand it automatically
> with a prefix match, similar as we do for the normal aliases now.
> 
> This allows to specify attributes for duplicated boxes quickly.
> For example uncore_cbox_{0,8}/.../ can be now specified as cbox/.../
> and it gets automatically expanded.

so expand here means adding all the events, right?

could you please state and example and make clear what happens as outcome

thanks,
jirka