From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753904AbcJDCjl (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2016 22:39:41 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:33124 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752510AbcJDChw (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2016 22:37:52 -0400 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Weekly News , Andi Kleen , Madhavan Srinivasan , Peter Zijlstra , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 20/22] perf tools: Make alias matching case-insensitive Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 23:37:19 -0300 Message-Id: <1475548641-12182-21-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1475548641-12182-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> References: <1475548641-12182-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by merlin.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andi Kleen Make alias matching the events parser case-insensitive. This is useful with the JSON events. perf uses lower case events, but the CPU manuals generally use upper case event names. The JSON files use lower case by default too. But if we search case insensitively then users can cut-n-paste the upper case event names. So the following works: % perf stat -e BR_INST_EXEC.TAKEN_INDIRECT_NEAR_CALL true Performance counter stats for 'true': 305 BR_INST_EXEC.TAKEN_INDIRECT_NEAR_CALL 0.000492799 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-17-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c index d445b1144c87..4e778eae1510 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c @@ -1459,7 +1459,7 @@ comp_pmu(const void *p1, const void *p2) struct perf_pmu_event_symbol *pmu1 = (struct perf_pmu_event_symbol *) p1; struct perf_pmu_event_symbol *pmu2 = (struct perf_pmu_event_symbol *) p2; - return strcmp(pmu1->symbol, pmu2->symbol); + return strcasecmp(pmu1->symbol, pmu2->symbol); } static void perf_pmu__parse_cleanup(void) -- 2.7.4