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authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-09-15 15:24:56 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-10-03 21:50:56 -0300
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perf tools: Allow period= in perf stat CPU event descriptions.
This avoids the JSON PMU events parser having to know whether its aliases are for perf stat or perf record. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-20-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/parse-events.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 8f88f63bf96c..d445b1144c87 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -924,6 +924,7 @@ config_term_avail(int term_type, struct parse_events_error *err)
case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_CONFIG1:
case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_CONFIG2:
case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NAME:
+ case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_SAMPLE_PERIOD:
return true;
default:
if (!err)