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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 3/6] perf tools: add infrastructure for PMU specific configuration
From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa () redhat ! com>
Date: 2016-07-31 12:02:19
Message-ID: 20160731120219.GA12673 () krava
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:42:20PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> This patch adds PMU driver specific configuration to the parser
> infrastructure by preceding any term with the '@' letter. As such
> doing something like:
>
> perf record -e some_event/@cfg1,@cfg2=config/ ...
>
> will see 'cfg1' and 'cfg2=config' being added to the list of evsel config
> terms. Token 'cfg1' and 'cfg2=config' are not processed in user space
> and are meant to be interpreted by the PMU driver.
>
> First the lexer/parser are supplemented with the required definitions to
> recognise the driver specific configuration. From there they are simply
> added to the list of event terms. The bulk of the work is done in
> function "parse_events_add_pmu()" where driver config event terms are
> added to a new list of driver config terms, which in turn spliced with
> the event's new driver configuration list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
thanks,
jirka
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