Re: [PATCH 2/3 -tip] perf_counter tools: Add support to set of multiple events in one shot

[Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 05:57 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> The above patterns i suggested _already cover_ 'multiple events'.
> 
> We might define further aliases like:
> 
> 	all := "*"
>         all-sw := "sw-*"
> 
> but it should all be in terms of patterns and regular expressions, 
> not via some hardcoded special-case thing as your posted patches 
> did.
> 

It seems to me very confusing and needs lot of book-keeping and need to
rewrite whole tools/perf/util/parse-events.c because :

* means all perf_event_types :
	PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
        PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE,
        PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT,
        PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE,
        PERF_TYPE_RAW

hw-* means all hardware events :
	PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
        PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE,
        PERF_TYPE_RAW

sw-* means all software events :
        PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE,
        PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT

*cache* means all cache based events :
	PERF_COUNT_CACHE_REFERENCES, 	/* Generalized H/W */
	PERF_COUNT_CACHE_MISSES,	/* Generalized H/W */
        PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE,		/* Generalized Cache */

*write* means all write based events :
	(L1D,       WRITE,          ACCESS),
	(L1D,       WRITE,          MISS),
	(LL,        WRITE,          ACCESS),
	(LL,        WRITE,          MISS),
	(DTLB,      WRITE,          ACCESS),
	(DTLB,      WRITE,          MISS)

Please let me know why it looks complex to me, is it really complex or I am going in wrong direction.

Thanks,

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JSR