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authorAgustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org>2018-03-06 09:04:44 -0500
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-03-08 10:05:49 -0300
commitc199c11dce197b12ff884ac0cfcb527b1164788b (patch)
tree88be0ca91aa97c85a2c07368a6a957a43fef630c /tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
parent8c5421c016a4ef7fd0141fe3a1ad221feba12f92 (diff)
downloadlinux-c199c11dce197b12ff884ac0cfcb527b1164788b.tar.gz
perf pmu: Auto-merge PMU events created by prefix or glob match
Auto-merge for these events was disabled when auto-merging of non-alias
events was disabled in commit 63ce844 (perf stat: Only auto-merge events
that are PMU aliases).

Non-merging of legacy events is preserved:

    $ perf stat -ag -e cache-misses,cache-misses sleep 1

     Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

                86,323      cache-misses
                86,323      cache-misses

           1.002623307 seconds time elapsed

But prefix or glob matching auto-merges the events created:

    $ perf stat -a -e l3cache/read-miss/ sleep 1

     Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

                   328      l3cache/read-miss/

           1.002627008 seconds time elapsed

    $ perf stat -a -e l3cache_0_[01]/read-miss/ sleep 1

     Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

                   172      l3cache/read-miss/

           1.002627008 seconds time elapsed

As with events created with aliases, auto-merging can be suppressed with
the --no-merge option:

    $ perf stat -a -e l3cache/read-miss/ --no-merge sleep 1

     Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

                    67      l3cache/read-miss/
                    67      l3cache/read-miss/
                    63      l3cache/read-miss/
                    60      l3cache/read-miss/

           1.002622192 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Change-Id: I0a47eed54c05e1982ca964d743b37f50f60c508c
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520345084-42646-4-git-send-email-agustinv@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/parse-events.h')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/parse-events.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
index 88108cd11b4c..5015cfd58277 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ int parse_events_add_breakpoint(struct list_head *list, int *idx,
 				void *ptr, char *type, u64 len);
 int parse_events_add_pmu(struct parse_events_state *parse_state,
 			 struct list_head *list, char *name,
-			 struct list_head *head_config);
+			 struct list_head *head_config, bool auto_merge_stats);
 
 int parse_events_multi_pmu_add(struct parse_events_state *parse_state,
 			       char *str,