[PATCH v3 2/7] perf metric: Event "Compat" value supports matching multiple identifiers

[Jing Zhang]

在 2023/6/14 上午12:36, John Garry 写道:
> On 12/06/2023 19:15, John Garry wrote:
>> On 08/06/2023 10:44, Jing Zhang wrote:
>>>> Unit is the format of the event_source device name. We should match based on that as well as compat. I need to check the code again to understand how that is done... it has changed a good bit in 3 years.
>>>>
>>> This situation only happens on uncore metric. I happened to write wrong Unit, but the metric still matches.
>>>
>>
>> I'm just double checking this now. I think any possible fix should be easy enough for current code but may be tricky for backport with lots of metric code changes.
> 
> I also have code to re-work sys event metric support such that we don't require "compat" or "Unit" values for a metric when the metric is described in terms of event aliases. That code is 2 years old, so may take a bit of time to rebase. I'll look to do that now.
> 

Sounds good!

Thanks,
Jing


> Thanks,
> John
>