Re: [PATCH v2]: perf record: enable arbitrary event names thru name= modifier

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Jun 04 2018 - 09:47:24 EST


Em Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:01:00PM -0700, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 05:08:12PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> >
> > Enable complex event names containing [.:=,] symbols to be encoded into Perf
> > trace using name= modifier e.g. like this:
> >
> > perf record -e cpu/name=\'OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM\',\
> > period=0x3567e0,event=0x3c,cmask=0x1/Duk ./futex
> >
> > Below is how it looks like in the report output. Please note explicit escaped
> > quoting at cmdline string in the header so that thestring can be directly reused
> > for another collection in shell:
>
> Patch looks good, but new syntax also needs to be documented in some manpage
> (e.g. perf list)

He added the doc part in his v3 post, so I'l collecting your Acked-by,
ok?

- Arnaldo