From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965275AbcJQLgD (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2016 07:36:03 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:14775 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965197AbcJQLfW (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2016 07:35:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:35:19 +0200 From: Jiri Olsa To: Andi Kleen Cc: acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com, eranian@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] perf, tools: Expand PMU events by prefix match Message-ID: <20161017113519.GC24552@krava> References: <1476393332-20732-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <1476393332-20732-9-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1476393332-20732-9-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.26]); Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:35:21 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 02:15:30PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Andi Kleen > > When the user specifies a pmu directly, expand it automatically > with a prefix match, similar as we do for the normal aliases now. > > This allows to specify attributes for duplicated boxes quickly. > For example uncore_cbox_{0,8}/.../ can be now specified as cbox/.../ > and it gets automatically expanded. so expand here means adding all the events, right? could you please state and example and make clear what happens as outcome thanks, jirka