Re: [PATCH v7 2/4] perf tools: Add lexical definition of event name

[John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>]

On 04/03/2021 03:26, Shunsuke Nakamura wrote:
> From: Shunsuke Nakamura <nakamura.shun@jp.fujitsu.com>
> 
> Add the lexical definition of event name so that the numbers are recognizable.
> 

Sorry for the hassle, but it's not clear that we got a definitive 
conclusion on this patch from v6 series:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YCuo01Wxxe%2FMCrC5@krava/

Would it be so much worse for you to change format of these event names 
to not start with a numberic?

Thanks



> A64FX defines an event name that starts with a number.
>   - 0inst_commit
>   - 1inst_commit
>   - 2inst_commit
>   - 3inst_commit
>   - 4inst_commit
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shunsuke Nakamura <nakamura.shun@fujitsu.com>
> Acked-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
> ---
>   tools/perf/util/parse-events.l | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> index 0b36285a9435..33f627187415 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ bpf_source	[^,{}]+\.c[a-zA-Z0-9._]*
>   num_dec		[0-9]+
>   num_hex		0x[a-fA-F0-9]+
>   num_raw_hex	[a-fA-F0-9]+
> -name		[a-zA-Z_*?\[\]][a-zA-Z0-9_*?.\[\]]*
> +name		[a-zA-Z0-9_*?\[\]][a-zA-Z0-9_*?.\[\]]*
>   name_tag	[\'][a-zA-Z_*?\[\]][a-zA-Z0-9_*?\-,\.\[\]:=]*[\']
>   name_minus	[a-zA-Z_*?][a-zA-Z0-9\-_*?.:]*
>   drv_cfg_term	[a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+(=[a-zA-Z0-9_*?\.:]+)?
>