linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 1/3] perf ilist: Don't display deprecated events

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Message-ID: <20251016222228.2926870-1-irogers@google.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:22:26 -0700
From: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, 
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, 
	Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>, 
	Howard Chu <howardchu95@...il.com>, Gautam Menghani <gautam@...ux.ibm.com>, 
	linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 1/3] perf ilist: Don't display deprecated events

Unsupported legacy events are flagged as deprecated. Don't display
these events in ilist as they won't open and there are over 1,000
legacy cache events.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
---
 tools/perf/python/ilist.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/python/ilist.py b/tools/perf/python/ilist.py
index 9d6465c60df3..69005a88872e 100755
--- a/tools/perf/python/ilist.py
+++ b/tools/perf/python/ilist.py
@@ -439,6 +439,8 @@ class IListApp(App):
                 pmu_node = pmus.add(pmu_name)
                 try:
                     for event in sorted(pmu.events(), key=lambda x: x["name"]):
+                        if "deprecated" in event:
+                            continue
                         if "name" in event:
                             e = event["name"].lower()
                             if "alias" in event:
-- 
2.51.0.858.gf9c4a03a3a-goog