perf evsel: Introduce set_filter method
Replaces existing filter string with the one provided.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jst49z83li0yx3g18o54u51a@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 6676774..ae925b9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -823,6 +823,19 @@
(void *)filter);
}
+int perf_evsel__set_filter(struct perf_evsel *evsel, const char *filter)
+{
+ char *new_filter = strdup(filter);
+
+ if (new_filter != NULL) {
+ free(evsel->filter);
+ evsel->filter = new_filter;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ return -1;
+}
+
int perf_evsel__enable(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int ncpus, int nthreads)
{
return perf_evsel__run_ioctl(evsel, ncpus, nthreads,