Re: [PATCH v1] perf jevents: Fix build issue in '*/' in event descriptions

[Ian Rogers]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 12:28 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 10:35:34AM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 8:56 AM Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > For big string offsets we output comments for what string the offset
> > > is for. If the string contains a '*/' as seen in Intel Arrowlake event
> > > descriptions, then this causes C parsing issues for the generated
> > > pmu-events.c. Catch such '*/' values and escape to avoid this.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Ping.
>
> A fixes: is missing, probably this should go via perf-tools, i.e. for
> this merge window?

We don't yet have arrowlake events/metrics, should there be a fixes?
I'm just preparing the patches for the latest vendor json from Intel,
but they will depend on this. I suspect given the size of the vendor
json it will miss the current merge window.

Thanks,
Ian