Re: [BUG] perf parser: does not support arbitrary new sysfs events

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 01:13:59AM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:23:09PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The latest round of perf parser changes broke my PEBS-LL patch series
> >> (at the last minute). For PEBS-LL, I need to add to generic events but I want
> >> to keep them PMU specific. As such, they need to live in the sysfs events
> >> subdir: /sys/devices/cpu/events/mem-loads, sys/devices/cpu/events/mem-stores.
> >>
> >> Given your latest rounds of sysfs event changes, I had to modify my kernel
> >> patches to fit those two new events within your perf_pmu_events_attr tables.
> >>
> >> But now, when I try to do:
> >>
> >> $ perf record -e cpu/mem-loads/ ....
> >
> > I can try this only on on uncore events and hw events aliases and that seems to work
> >
> I know it works there. I don't understand why it does not work with cpu/.
> 
> Just add an encoding that has no hardcoded equivalent. I bet you will
> reproduce the problem.
> 
> In my patch set, I have extended your perf_pmu_events_attr struct to
> also accept an already preformed event_str. I can send you that extension
> if you want.

that would be great

jirka