[PATCH v6 1/4] tools/perf: support parsing parameterized events

[Jiri Olsa]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:58:50AM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> From a24b480ff54381a7e092597864cf615162afdd60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Cody P Schafer <cody at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:27:15 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH 1/4] tools/perf: support parsing parameterized events
> 
> Enable event specification like:
> 
> 	pmu/event_name,param1=0x1,param2=0x4/
> 
> Assuming that
> 
> 	/sys/bus/event_source/devices/pmu/events/event_name
> 
> Contains something like
> 
> 	param2=?,bar=1,param1=?
> 
> Changelog[v6]:
> 	[Jiri Olsa] Add a check to make sure that sysfs entries with
> 	parameters exactly match '=?'.
> 
> Changelog[v4]:
> 	[Jiri Olsa] Merge to recent perf-core and fix a small conflict.
> 
> Changelog[v3]:
> 	[Jiri Olsa] If the sysfs event file specifies 'param=val', make the
> 	usage 'hv_24x7/event,param=123/' rather than 'hv_24x7/event,val=123/'.

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at kernel.org>

I'm ok with whole patchset, with some nits for patch 2
that I've already sent out..

Would you mind sending v7 so we avoid confusion for Arnaldo
what to pick up?

thanks,
jirka