From 94692349c4fc1bc74c19a28f9379509361a06a3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephane Eranian Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:36:19 +0200 Subject: perf: Fix multi-event parsing bug This patch fixes an issue with event parsing. The following commit appears to have broken the ability to specify a comma separated list of events: commit ceb53fbf6dbb1df26d38379a262c6981fe73dd36 Author: Ingo Molnar Date: Wed Apr 27 04:06:33 2011 +0200 perf stat: Fail more clearly when an invalid modifier is specified This patch fixes this while preserving the desired effect: $ perf stat -e instructions:u,instructions:k ls /dev/null /dev/null Performance counter stats for 'ls /dev/null': 365956 instructions:u # 0.00 insns per cycle 731806 instructions:k # 0.00 insns per cycle 0.001108862 seconds time elapsed $ perf stat -e task-clock-msecs true invalid event modifier: '-msecs' Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events and modifiers Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110517133619.GA6999@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/perf') diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c index ffa493a24333..41982c373faf 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c @@ -734,6 +734,9 @@ parse_event_modifier(const char **strp, struct perf_event_attr *attr) if (!*str) return 0; + if (*str == ',') + return 0; + if (*str++ != ':') return -1; -- cgit v1.2.3