Re: [PATCH 02/10] perf, tools, stat: Collapse identically named events

[Jiri Olsa]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:49:16PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:

SNIP

>  	}
>  }
>  
> +static void collect_all_aliases(struct perf_evsel *counter,
> +			    void (*cb)(struct perf_evsel *counter, void *data,
> +				       bool first),
> +			    void *data)
> +{
> +	struct perf_evsel *alias;
> +
> +	alias = list_prepare_entry(counter, &(evsel_list->entries), node);
> +	list_for_each_entry_continue (alias, &evsel_list->entries, node) {
> +		if (strcmp(perf_evsel__name(alias), perf_evsel__name(counter)) ||
> +		    alias->scale != counter->scale ||
> +		    alias->cgrp != counter->cgrp ||
> +		    strcmp(alias->unit, counter->unit) ||
> +		    nsec_counter(alias) != nsec_counter(counter))
> +			break;
> +		alias->merged_stat = true;
> +		cb(alias, data, false);
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  static void collect_data(struct perf_evsel *counter,
>  			    void (*cb)(struct perf_evsel *counter, void *data,
>  				       bool first),
>  			    void *data)
>  {

could we place the merged_stat condition in here and have
collect_data return value to process or not the current
counter.. looks like we could get rid of 2 merged_stat
conditions in print_counter_aggr and print_aggr

jirka