linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf parse: Allow names to start with digits

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Date:   Mon, 4 Jul 2022 13:25:28 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@...il.com>
To:     Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Cc:     Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@...il.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf parse: Allow names to start with digits

On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 08:58:45AM +0900, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Jiri Olsa wrote on Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 03:46:33PM +0200:
> > > not sure if there'd be any other way of testing, there's nothing else in
> > > 'perf list' that starts with a number.
> > 
> > maybe we could do it same way we did for fake pmu events like below
> 
> hmm, I'll have to defer to you on that honestly.
> 
> It looks good to me though and I've tested your diff (test succeeds even
> with 9pnet module unloaded).
> 
> Just a note though, this makes test no longer checks the sys event
> directories exist for all other tests in these arrays (test__events,
> test__events_pmu and test__hybrid_events); if we have guarantees the
> probes exist I believe at least a few should keep checking the format
> path correctly.
> It might be worth adding a check_format flag to test_event() and add a
> new list that doesn't check formats just for 9p?

format provides only id which we don't check for tracepoints

> 
> If you're ok with that I can resend this as three patches: my original
> patch, a patch with your diff and test_event() keeping current
> behaviour, and a last patch adding that last flag and testing 9p without
> format check.
> 
> (and if you don't think it's worth checking probe existence same thing
> but even simpler)

I have that patch split into 2 separated changes,
I'll try to send it later today

jirka