Re: [PATCH V3 3/6] perf tools: add infrastructure for PMU specific configuration

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Sun Jul 31 2016 - 08:13:05 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
jirka