[PATCH v6 2/3] perf tools: Add lexical definition of event name

John Garry john.garry at huawei.com
Fri Feb 12 04:53:28 EST 2021


On 12/02/2021 09:03, Shunsuke Nakamura wrote:
> Add the lexical definition of event name so that the numbers are recognizable.
> 
> A64FX defines an event name that starts with a number.
>   - 0inst_commit
>   - 1inst_commit
>   - 2inst_commit
>   - 3inst_commit
>   - 4inst_commit
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shunsuke Nakamura <nakamura.shun at fujitsu.com>
> ---

FWIW,

Acked-by: John Garry <john.garry at huawei.com>

I would prefer if more knowledgeable perf reviewers also checked this...

>   tools/perf/util/parse-events.l | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> index 0b36285a9435..33f627187415 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ bpf_source	[^,{}]+\.c[a-zA-Z0-9._]*
>   num_dec		[0-9]+
>   num_hex		0x[a-fA-F0-9]+
>   num_raw_hex	[a-fA-F0-9]+
> -name		[a-zA-Z_*?\[\]][a-zA-Z0-9_*?.\[\]]*
> +name		[a-zA-Z0-9_*?\[\]][a-zA-Z0-9_*?.\[\]]*
>   name_tag	[\'][a-zA-Z_*?\[\]][a-zA-Z0-9_*?\-,\.\[\]:=]*[\']
>   name_minus	[a-zA-Z_*?][a-zA-Z0-9\-_*?.:]*
>   drv_cfg_term	[a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+(=[a-zA-Z0-9_*?\.:]+)?
> 




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