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 Sat, 2009-06-27 at 18:38 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Add support for HARDWARE and SOFTWARE events :
> >  perf stat -e all-sw-events
> >  perf stat -e sw-events
> >  perf stat -e all-hw-events
> >  perf stat -e hw-events
> 
> > +static struct event_type_symbol event_type_symbols[] = {
> > + [PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE]	= { "hw-events",	"all-hw-events",	},
> > + [PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE]	= { "sw-events",	"all-sw-events",	},
> 
> Hm, this really just special-cases and open-codes these. The better 
> solution is what i suggested in my review of your prior patches: 
> regex pattern matching.
> 

parse_events() is responsible to parse events for 'perf stat -e' and it
is parsing by parse_event_symbol()

If you want to use regex pattern matching then either we should make
some another option or if we need to rewrite parse_event_symbol to use
regex pattern matching which will be applicable to all the events.

Let me know which option you are looking for.

Thanks,
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JSR