From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759580Ab1LPOEU (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:04:20 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:34891 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755762Ab1LPOEN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:04:13 -0500 Message-ID: <1324044196.18942.105.camel@twins> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf, tool: Add parser generator for events parsing From: Peter Zijlstra To: Jiri Olsa Cc: acme@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, paulus@samba.org, cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:03:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1324044159.18942.104.camel@twins> References: <1323963039-7602-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> <1323963039-7602-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> <1324044159.18942.104.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.1- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 15:02 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > event_tracepoint: PE_NAME_TP ':' PE_NAME_TP modifier > > event_raw: PE_SEP_RAW PE_VALUE modifier > > event_numeric: PE_VALUE ':' PE_VALUE modifier > > event_symbolic: PE_NAME_SYM modifier > > event_generic_hw: PE_NAME_CACHE_TYPE '-' PE_NAME_CACHE_OP_RESULT '-' PE_NAME_CACHE_OP_RESULT modifier | > > PE_NAME_CACHE_TYPE '-' PE_NAME_CACHE_OP_RESULT modifier | > > PE_NAME_CACHE_TYPE modifier > > event_breakpoint: PE_SEP_BP ':' PE_VALUE event_breakpoint_type modifier > > event_breakpoint_type: PE_MODIFIER_BPTYPE | empty > > modifier: PE_MODIFIER_EVENT | empty > > This isn't complete, we need means of specifying > perf_event_attr::config[12] when specifying a raw event. Also, it might make sense to think about how to specify sysfs events (which don't exist yet).