From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754069AbbHaS4U (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:56:20 -0400 Received: from e18.ny.us.ibm.com ([129.33.205.208]:35881 "EHLO e18.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752428AbbHaS4S (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:56:18 -0400 X-Helo: d01dlp03.pok.ibm.com X-MailFrom: sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com X-RcptTo: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:54:25 -0700 From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu To: Andi Kleen Cc: acme@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, tools: Make alias matching case-insensitive Message-ID: <20150831185425.GB31119@us.ibm.com> References: <1440798220-4557-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1440798220-4557-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 on an i486 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 15083118-0045-0000-0000-0000013AAF2A Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen [andi@firstfloor.org] wrote: | 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 Tested-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu I have also pushed this to 'json-v16' branch of my github tree: https://github.com/sukadev/linux Sukadev