[PATCH V2 3/6] perf tools: add infrastructure for PMU specific configuration

Jiri Olsa jolsa at redhat.com
Thu Jul 21 00:47:11 PDT 2016


On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 02:38:17PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> This patchset adds PMU driver specific configuration to the parser
> infrastructure by preceding any term with the '@' letter.  As such
> doing something like:
> 
> perf record -e some_event/@cfg1, at cfg2=config/ ...
> 
> will see 'cfg1' and 'cfg2=config' being added to the list of evsel config
> terms.  Token 'cfg1' and 'cfg2=config' are not processed in user space
> and are meant to be interpreted by the PMU driver.

please also update the docs, like 'Documentation/perf-record.txt --event option'

thanks,
jirka



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