[PATCH 1/2] perf record: Apply filter to all events in a glob matching

[Wang Nan]

There is an old problem in perf's filter applying which first posted
at Sep. 2014 at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/9/944 that, if passing
multiple events in a glob matching expression in cmdline then add
'--filter' after them, the filter will be applied on only the last one.

For example:

 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null &
 [1] 464
 # perf record -a -e 'syscalls:sys_*_read' --filter 'common_pid != 464' sleep 0.1
 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.239 MB perf.data (2094 samples) ]
 # perf report --stdio | tee
 ...
 # Samples: 2K of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 2092
 ...
 # Samples: 2  of event 'syscalls:sys_exit_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 2
 ...

In this example, filter only applied on 'syscalls:sys_exit_read', and
there's no way to set filter for ''syscalls:sys_enter_read'.

This patch adds a 'cmdline_group_boundary' for 'struct evsel', and
apply filter on all events between two boundary marks.

After applying this patch:

 # perf record -a -e 'syscalls:sys_*_read' --filter 'common_pid != 464' sleep 0.1
 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.031 MB perf.data (3 samples) ]
 # perf report --stdio | tee
 ...
 # Samples: 1  of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 1
 ...
 # Samples: 2  of event 'syscalls:sys_exit_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 2
 ...

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c        |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h        |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 83c0803..49fb7b5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ void perf_evsel__init(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
 	perf_evsel__object.init(evsel);
 	evsel->sample_size = __perf_evsel__sample_size(attr->sample_type);
 	perf_evsel__calc_id_pos(evsel);
+	evsel->cmdline_group_boundary = false;
 }
 
 struct perf_evsel *perf_evsel__new_idx(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int idx)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index fe9f327..1fc263a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ struct perf_evsel {
 	unsigned long		*per_pkg_mask;
 	struct perf_evsel	*leader;
 	char			*group_name;
+	bool			cmdline_group_boundary;
 };
 
 union u64_swap {
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index a71eeb2..bbb7fbc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -1065,8 +1065,13 @@ int parse_events(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *str,
 	perf_pmu__parse_cleanup();
 	if (!ret) {
 		int entries = data.idx - evlist->nr_entries;
+		struct perf_evsel *last;
+
 		perf_evlist__splice_list_tail(evlist, &data.list, entries);
 		evlist->nr_groups += data.nr_groups;
+		last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);
+		last->cmdline_group_boundary = true;
+
 		return 0;
 	}
 
@@ -1171,16 +1176,23 @@ int parse_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
 	if (evlist->nr_entries > 0)
 		last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);
 
-	if (last == NULL || last->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
-		fprintf(stderr,
-			"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
-		return -1;
-	}
+	do {
+		if (last == NULL || last->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
+			fprintf(stderr,
+				"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
+			return -1;
+		}
 
-	if (perf_evsel__set_filter(last, str) < 0) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
-		return -1;
-	}
+		if (perf_evsel__set_filter(last, str) < 0) {
+			fprintf(stderr,
+				"not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
+			return -1;
+		}
+
+		if (last->node.prev == &evlist->entries)
+			return 0;
+		last = list_entry(last->node.prev, struct perf_evsel, node);
+	} while (!last->cmdline_group_boundary);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.8.3.4

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