Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] perf pmu: Support more complex PMU event aliasing

[John Garry]

On 28/06/2019 16:33, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Match more complex aliases where the alias name is a comma-delimited
> > +	 * list of tokens, orderly contained in the matching PMU name.
> > +	 *
> > +	 * Example: For alias "socket,pmuname" and PMU "socketX_pmunameY", we
> > +	 *	    match "socket" in "socketX_pmunameY" and then "pmuname" in
> > +	 *	    "pmunameY".
>
> This needs to be documented in some manpage.

Hi Andi,

As I see, today the man page does not mention the matching from the 
alias events declared in the jsons.

The perf list command shows these aliases, so I am not sure how useful 
that info is adding to the man page.

What the man page does mention is the glob matching on the PMU device 
name - like how "imc" can match PMU device "uncore_imc_0", but I'm not 
changing around this.

Thanks,
John

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