Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf, tool: Add parser generator for events parsing

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Tue Dec 20 2011 - 05:32:22 EST


On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 03:03:16PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 15:02 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > event_tracepoint: PE_NAME_TP ':' PE_NAME_TP modifier
> > > event_raw: PE_SEP_RAW PE_VALUE modifier
> > > event_numeric: PE_VALUE ':' PE_VALUE modifier
> > > event_symbolic: PE_NAME_SYM modifier
> > > event_generic_hw: PE_NAME_CACHE_TYPE '-' PE_NAME_CACHE_OP_RESULT '-' PE_NAME_CACHE_OP_RESULT modifier |
> > > PE_NAME_CACHE_TYPE '-' PE_NAME_CACHE_OP_RESULT modifier |
> > > PE_NAME_CACHE_TYPE modifier
> > > event_breakpoint: PE_SEP_BP ':' PE_VALUE event_breakpoint_type modifier
> > > event_breakpoint_type: PE_MODIFIER_BPTYPE | empty
> > > modifier: PE_MODIFIER_EVENT | empty
> >
> > This isn't complete, we need means of specifying
> > perf_event_attr::config[12] when specifying a raw event.
>
> Also, it might make sense to think about how to specify sysfs events
> (which don't exist yet).

any idea/details/specifics how they might look like? ;)

jirka
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