perf jevent: Add general metrics support

Add general metrics support, so that some general metrics applicable to
multiple architectures can be defined in the public JSON file like
general events, and then add general metrics through "arch_std_event" in
JSON file of different architecture.

Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jing Zhang <renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Kilroy <andrew.kilroy@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhuo Song <zhuo.song@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1673940573-90503-3-git-send-email-renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
index 4c398e0eeb2f..0416b7442171 100755
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
@@ -358,6 +358,8 @@ def preprocess_arch_std_files(archpath: str) -> None:
       for event in read_json_events(item.path, topic=''):
         if event.name:
           _arch_std_events[event.name.lower()] = event
+        if event.metric_name:
+          _arch_std_events[event.metric_name.lower()] = event
 
 
 def print_events_table_prefix(tblname: str) -> None: