[RFC V3 0/3] perf stat: improvements for handling of multiple PMUs

[Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org>]

This series of patches adds some simple improvements to the way perf stat
handles PMUs that have multiple instances by:

1. Adding glob-like matching in addition to the prefix-based matching
   introduced previously (patch 1).
2. Adding the ability to recover the PMU names when printing the events
   separately with the --no-merge option (patch 2).
3. Restoring auto-merge for events created by prefix or glob-like match
   (patch 3). Note that this still keeps the behavior that disables
   auto-merging of legacy symbolic events (e.g. cycles).

V3:

- Consolidated prefix and glob matching into a single glob match with a
  trailing * to maintain prefix matching and have more consistent behavior.
  E.g., all of these match all the uncore_imc PMUs: imc, imc*, *imc, *imc*

V2:

- Updated the documentation to explain prefix and glob matching of PMU
  names, and event auto-merging.
- Added sample output to the third patch.

Agustin Vega-Frias (3):
  perf, tools: Support wildcards on pmu name in dynamic pmu events
  perf, tools: Display pmu name when printing unmerged events in stat
  perf pmu: Auto-merge PMU events created by prefix or glob match

 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt |  8 +++++++-
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c              | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c                |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h                |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c         | 21 ++++++++++-----------
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.h         |  2 +-
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.l         |  2 +-
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.y         | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
 9 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

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