[RFC V3 0/3] perf stat: improvements for handling of multiple PMUs

[Jiri Olsa]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 09:04:41AM -0500, Agustin Vega-Frias wrote:
> 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).
> 
> V3:
> 
> - Consolidated prefix and glob matching into a single glob match with a
>   trailing * to maintain prefix matching and have more consistent behavior.
>   E.g., all of these match all the uncore_imc PMUs: imc, imc*, *imc, *imc*

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at kernel.org>

thanks,
jirka