Re: [BUG] perf parser: does not support arbitrary new sysfs events

[Andi Kleen]

Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> The latest round of perf parser changes broke my PEBS-LL patch series
> (at the last minute). For PEBS-LL, I need to add to generic events but I want
> to keep them PMU specific. As such, they need to live in the sysfs events
> subdir: /sys/devices/cpu/events/mem-loads, sys/devices/cpu/events/mem-stores.
>
> Given your latest rounds of sysfs event changes, I had to modify my kernel
> patches to fit those two new events within your perf_pmu_events_attr tables.
>
> But now, when I try to do:
>
> $ perf record -e cpu/mem-loads/ ....

- is not supported in an event name. I fixed this in my patchkit

Yes the sysfs stuff in general is quite fragile.

-Andi

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