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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/tool: Fix usage of trace events with '-' in trace
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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:41:56 +0200
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On 17/04/14 13:32, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:15:29AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 24/03/2014 21:49, Christian Borntraeger ha scritto:
>>> event_legacy_tracepoint:
>>> +PE_NAME '-' PE_NAME ':' PE_NAME
>>> +{
>>> +	struct parse_events_evlist *data = _data;
>>> +	struct list_head *list;
>>> +	char sys_name[strlen($1) + strlen($3) + 2];
>>> +	sprintf(&sys_name, "%s-%s", $1, $3);
>>> +
>>> +	ALLOC_LIST(list);
>>> +	ABORT_ON(parse_events_add_tracepoint(list, &data->idx, &sys_name, $5));
>>> +	$$ = list;
>>> +}
>>
>> Why isn't '-' part of PE_NAME?
> 
> hi Paolo ;-)
> 
> because it screws cache events parsing.. we need some code factoring
> in this part
> 
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

Jiri,

can you handle this patch + "perf-kvm: fix of 'Min time' counting in report command" in your tree?

> 
> it'd be nice to add test to tests/parse-events.c, probably s390 specific,
> because the parsing code touches the tracepoint format file

Alexander,

can you have a look to provide a simple test for perf that checks that trace events like kvm-s390 are handled properly?

Thanks

Christian