Re: [PATCH 10/12] add perf counter support

Ingo Molnar
2009-08-11T12:17:34Z

* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 04:53:02PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> > Make 'perf stat -e syscalls:sys_enter_blah' work with syscall style tracepoints.
>
>
> It would be nice to also be able to type:
>
> perf stat -e syscalls:blah
>
> and then having both enter/exit counters.

Plus wildcard/regex support would be nice as well in the listing of
events. That way one could do a shortcut of:

perf stat -e syscalls:*

to trace all syscalls. Or:

perf stat -e syscalls:*read*

to see all the read variants - etc.

Ingo