Re: [PATCH] perf/tool: Fix usage of trace events with '-' in trace system name.

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 09:49:00PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> From: Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Trace events potentially can have a '-' in their trace system name,
> e.g. kvm on s390 defines kvm-s390:* tracepoints.
> tools/perf could not parse them, because there was no rule for this:
> $ sudo ./perf top -e "kvm-s390:*"
> invalid or unsupported event: 'kvm-s390:*'
> 
> This patch adds an extra rule to event_legacy_tracepoint which handles
> those cases. Without the patch, perf will not accept such tracepoints in
> the -e option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
> index 4eb67ec..dbbb01c 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
> @@ -299,6 +299,18 @@ PE_PREFIX_MEM PE_VALUE sep_dc
>  }
>  
>  event_legacy_tracepoint:
> +PE_NAME '-' PE_NAME ':' PE_NAME
> +{
> +	struct parse_events_evlist *data = _data;
> +	struct list_head *list;
> +	char sys_name[strlen($1) + strlen($3) + 2];

hum, could you limit the size of sys_name array with some
sane value? those strlens make me nervous :-\

thanks,
jirka

> +	sprintf(&sys_name, "%s-%s", $1, $3);
> +
> +	ALLOC_LIST(list);
> +	ABORT_ON(parse_events_add_tracepoint(list, &data->idx, &sys_name, $5));
> +	$$ = list;
> +}
> +|
>  PE_NAME ':' PE_NAME
>  {
>  	struct parse_events_evlist *data = _data;
> -- 
> 1.8.4.2
> 
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