[RFC V3 1/3] perf, tools: Support wildcards on pmu name in dynamic pmu events

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme at kernel.org
Wed Mar 7 11:05:43 PST 2018


Em Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 04:05:09PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 10:54:15AM -0800, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> > > Sorry about that. That's probably because FNM_EXTMATCH is a GNU extension,
> > > not POSIX, and the Alpine and Android runtimes likely don't implement
> > > that...
> > > I'll send a fix reverting back to the strncmp to ignore the uncore_ prefix,
> > > and dropping that extension.
> > 
> > Just don't set it? Even the basic glob patterns are useful.
> 
> Or use:
> 
> #ifndef FNM_EXTMATCH
> #define FNM_EXTMATCH 0
> #endif
> 
> So on systems without it, its not used, while on GNU systems, we have
> that functionality (pretty fancy, someone may need that... ;-))

I'll try this route, btw, no need to send more patches for now.

- Arnaldo



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