From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755800AbbLAC5t (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2015 21:57:49 -0500 Received: from e19.ny.us.ibm.com ([129.33.205.209]:52421 "EHLO e19.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755666AbbLAC5p (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2015 21:57:45 -0500 X-IBM-Helo: d01dlp02.pok.ibm.com X-IBM-MailFrom: sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com X-IBM-RcptTo: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu To: mingo@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, Michael Ellerman , Jiri Olsa , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: namhyung@kernel.org, maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Subject: [PATCH v19 17/19] perf, tools: Make alias matching case-insensitive Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 18:57:12 -0800 Message-Id: <1448938635-29176-18-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 In-Reply-To: <1448938635-29176-1-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1448938635-29176-1-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 15120102-0057-0000-0000-000002A55C32 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 --- 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 1db6adf..0e9b188 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c @@ -1242,7 +1242,7 @@ 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) -- 1.8.3.1