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    SubjectRe: [PATCH V3 3/6] perf tools: add infrastructure for PMU specific configuration
    On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:42:20PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
    > This patch adds PMU driver specific configuration to the parser
    > infrastructure by preceding any term with the '@' letter. As such
    > doing something like:
    >
    > perf record -e some_event/@cfg1,@cfg2=config/ ...
    >
    > will see 'cfg1' and 'cfg2=config' being added to the list of evsel config
    > terms. Token 'cfg1' and 'cfg2=config' are not processed in user space
    > and are meant to be interpreted by the PMU driver.
    >
    > First the lexer/parser are supplemented with the required definitions to
    > recognise the driver specific configuration. From there they are simply
    > added to the list of event terms. The bulk of the work is done in
    > function "parse_events_add_pmu()" where driver config event terms are
    > added to a new list of driver config terms, which in turn spliced with
    > the event's new driver configuration list.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>

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

    thanks,
    jirka

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