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

[John Garry]

On 20/06/2023 03:12, Jing Zhang wrote:
>> But that JSON is not in this series. Why is it not included?
>>
> Because the RFC version of the cmn.json file does not define the EventCode for each event, this will not take effect, so I temporarily removed it.
> The EventID of CMN events is different from other events. For example, hnf_slc_sf_cache_access corresponds to arm_cmn_0/type=0x5,eventid=0x2/.
> The current JSON format parsing does not support this EventID, and jevent.py needs to be extended.

So please do that then. I would suggest just to first support event 
aliasing, and then support metrics. JFYI, I am still reworking current 
perf tool metric code for sys events, which should take a few more days.

> 
>> The cmn kernel driver exposes event hnf_slc_sf_cache_access, but I did not think that perf tool metric code matches those events described in/bus/event_sourcs/devices/<PMU>/events
>>
> If there is no alias defined, other events with the same name may be matched, it is indeed necessary to define an alias for each event first,
> and I will add it in the next version. But first I need to extend jevent.py to support cmn EventID.

ok, please do this. I assume that you are talking about wildcard 
matching for cmn HW identifier. We would also need perf tool self-test 
expanded to cover this wildcard matching - see tests/pmu-events.c

Thanks,
John