[RFC V2 0/3] perf stat: improvements for handling of multiple PMUs

Agustin Vega-Frias agustinv at codeaurora.org
Fri Mar 2 15:41:29 PST 2018


This series of patches adds some simple improvements to the way perf stat
handles PMUs that have multiple instances by:

1. Adding glob-like matching in addition to the prefix-based matching
   introduced previously (patch 1).
2. Adding the ability to recover the PMU names when printing the events
   separately with the --no-merge option (patch 2).
3. Restoring auto-merge for events created by prefix or glob-like match
   (patch 3). Note that this still keeps the behavior that disables
   auto-merging of legacy symbolic events (e.g. cycles).

V2:

- Updated the documentation to explain prefix and glob matching of PMU
  names, and event auto-merging.
- Added sample output to the third patch.

Agustin Vega-Frias (3):
  perf, tools: Support wildcards on pmu name in dynamic pmu events
  perf, tools: Display pmu name when printing unmerged events in stat
  perf pmu: Auto-merge PMU events created by prefix or glob match

 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt |  8 +++++++-
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c              | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c                |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h                |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c         | 21 ++++++++++-----------
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.h         |  2 +-
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.l         |  2 +-
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.y         |  7 ++++---
 9 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

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