[PATCH] perf: fix multi-event parsing bug

From: Stephane Eranian
Date: Tue May 17 2011 - 09:36:33 EST



This patch fixes an issue with event parsing.
The following commit appears to have broken the
ability to specify a comma separated list of events:

commit ceb53fbf6dbb1df26d38379a262c6981fe73dd36
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Apr 27 04:06:33 2011 +0200

perf stat: Fail more clearly when an invalid modifier is specified

This patch fixes this while preserving the desired effect:

$ perf stat -e instructions:u,instructions:k ls /dev/null
/dev/null

Performance counter stats for 'ls /dev/null':

365956 instructions:u # 0.00 insns per cycle
731806 instructions:k # 0.00 insns per cycle

0.001108862 seconds time elapsed

$ perf stat -e task-clock-msecs true
invalid event modifier: '-msecs'
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events and modifiers

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index ffa493a..41982c3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -734,6 +734,9 @@ parse_event_modifier(const char **strp, struct perf_event_attr *attr)
if (!*str)
return 0;

+ if (*str == ',')
+ return 0;
+
if (*str++ != ':')
return -1;

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