Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] perf metric fixes and test

[Jiri Olsa]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 09:44:24PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
> Hi Jiri,
> 
> On 4/23/2020 7:28 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 03:04:19PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > > Add a test that all perf metrics (for your architecture) are
> > > parsable. Fix bugs in the expr parser and in x86 metrics. Untested on
> > > architectures other than x86.
> > > 
> > > v2 adds Fixes tags to commit messages for when broken metrics were
> > >    first added. Adds a debug warning for division by zero in expr, and
> > >    adds a workaround for id values in the expr test necessary for
> > >    powerpc. It also fixes broken power8 and power9 metrics.
> > 
> > looks good to me
> > 
> > Jin Yao, is there a metric that's not working for you with this patchset
> > applied?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > jirka
> > 
> 
> Let me look for a CLX for testing, but maybe need some time.
> 
> BTW, suppose this patchset can work well, does it mean we will change the
> json file format in future?
> 
> For example,
> 
> before:
> cha@event\\=0x36\\\\\\
> 
> after:
> cha@event\\=0x36\\
> 
> "\\\\" are removed.
> 
> If so, we need to change our event generation script.

ok, maybe I got the wrong idea that the extra \\\\ were just
superfluous, what was the actual error there? and what's the
reason for that many '\' in there?

jirka