On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:21:25AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 08:41:26AM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
> 
> SNIP
> 
> > > +				SET_SYMBOL(prefix, PMU_EVENT_SYMBOL);
> > >   				len++;
> > >   			}
> > >   		}
> > >   	}
> > > +
> > > +	/* unlikely, but still.. */
> > > +	if (!len)
> > > +		goto err;
> > > +	perf_pmu_events_list_num = len;
> > > +
> > >   	qsort(perf_pmu_events_list, len,
> > >   		sizeof(struct perf_pmu_event_symbol), comp_pmu);
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks so much for the patch! It works with my tests.
> > 
> > # ./perf test 6
> >  6: Parse event definition strings                                  : Ok
> > 
> > # ./perf stat -e software/r1a/ -a -- sleep 1
> > 
> >  Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> > 
> >    <not supported>      software/r1a/
> > 
> >        1.000940433 seconds time elapsed
> > 
> > In theory, do we also need to check suffix as well? I think returning
> > PMU_EVENT_SYMBOL_SUFFIX may also confuse the parser. But yes, we don't have
> > this case now.
> 
> yep, let's wait for use case ;-) you can't have suffix
> without prefix, and that's the one failing, so I think
> we are fine

actualy this one seems to work as well, could you plz check

thanks,
jirka


---
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
index d5b6aff82f21..d57ac86ce7ca 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ static void inc_group_count(struct list_head *list,
 %type <str> PE_EVENT_NAME
 %type <str> PE_PMU_EVENT_PRE PE_PMU_EVENT_SUF PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT PE_PMU_EVENT_FAKE
 %type <str> PE_DRV_CFG_TERM
+%type <str> event_pmu_name
 %destructor { free ($$); } <str>
 %type <term> event_term
 %destructor { parse_events_term__delete ($$); } <term>
@@ -272,8 +273,11 @@ event_def: event_pmu |
 	   event_legacy_raw sep_dc |
 	   event_bpf_file
 
+event_pmu_name:
+PE_NAME | PE_PMU_EVENT_PRE
+
 event_pmu:
-PE_NAME opt_pmu_config
+event_pmu_name opt_pmu_config
 {
 	struct parse_events_state *parse_state = _parse_state;
 	struct parse_events_error *error = parse_state->error;