Re: [PATCH 08/10] perf, tools: Expand PMU events by prefix match

[Jiri Olsa]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 02:15:30PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When the user specifies a pmu directly, expand it automatically
> with a prefix match, similar as we do for the normal aliases now.
> 
> This allows to specify attributes for duplicated boxes quickly.
> For example uncore_cbox_{0,8}/.../ can be now specified as cbox/.../
> and it gets automatically expanded.

so expand here means adding all the events, right?

could you please state and example and make clear what happens as outcome

thanks,
jirka