[PATCHv3 0/5] perf expr: Add flex scanner

[Jiri Olsa]

hi,
while preparing changes for user defined metric expressions
I also moved the expression manual parser to flex.

The reason is to have an easy and reasonable way to support
and parse multiple user-defined metric expressions from
command line or file.

I was posponing the change, but I just saw another update to
the expr manual scanner (from Kajol Jain), so cherry picked
just the expr flex code changes to get it out.

Kajol Jain,
I think it should ease up your change for unknown values marked
by '?'. Would you consider rebasing your changes on top of this?


v3 changes:
  - keep the EXPR_MAX_OTHER not too high (Andi)
  - add normalize call to flexer, so we have all symbols covered [kajoljain]

v2 changes:
  - handle special chars properly
  - fix return value for expr__parse

Available also in:
  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf.git
  perf/metric_flex

thanks,
jirka


---
Jiri Olsa (5):
      perf expr: Add expr.c object
      perf expr: Move expr lexer to flex
      perf expr: Increase EXPR_MAX_OTHER
      perf expr: Straighten expr__parse/expr__find_other interface
      perf expr: Make expr__parse return -1 on error

 tools/perf/tests/expr.c       |  10 +++----
 tools/perf/util/Build         |  11 +++++++-
 tools/perf/util/expr.c        | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/util/expr.h        |   8 ++----
 tools/perf/util/expr.l        | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/util/expr.y        | 185 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c |   4 +--
 7 files changed, 276 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/expr.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/expr.l