Re: [PATCH 0/3] perf: Support event alias in form foo-bar-baz

[Ian Rogers]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 7:15 AM John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently event aliases in the form foo-bar-baz are not supported.
>
> The HiSilicon D06 platform has uncore event aliases in that form, and
> using those aliases fail:
>
> $ ./perf list sdir-home-migrate
>
> List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
>
> uncore hha:
>   sdir-home-migrate
>  [Unit: hisi_sccl,hha]
>
> $ sudo ./perf stat -e sdir-home-migrate
> event syntax error: 'sdir-home-migrate'
>                         \___ parser error
> Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
>
>  Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>]
>
>  -e, --event <event>event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
>
> This series added support for such an event alias form.
>
> I am no expert on l+y, so any and all review here would be appreciated,
> especially the last patch which is marked as RFC (for that same reason).
>
> The series is based on acme perf/core @ 9bce13ea88f8.
>
> John Garry (3):
>   perf parse-events: Support event alias in form foo-bar-baz
>   perf test: Add pmu-events test for aliases with hyphens
>   perf test: Add parse-events test for aliases with hyphens

The whole set:

Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

The additional code is no worse than the existing code. The testing is
a great addition!

Thanks,
Ian

>  .../arch/test/test_soc/cpu/uncore.json        | 16 +++++
>  tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c               | 49 ++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c                 | 32 +++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c                | 67 ++++++++++++++++---
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.h                |  1 +
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.l                |  2 +
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.y                | 17 ++++-
>  7 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
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> 2.26.2
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