perf list: Allow filtering list of events
The man page has the details, here are some examples:
[root@emilia ~]# perf list *fault* *:*wait*
List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
page-faults OR faults [Software event]
minor-faults [Software event]
major-faults [Software event]
alignment-faults [Software event]
emulation-faults [Software event]
radeon:radeon_fence_wait_begin [Tracepoint event]
radeon:radeon_fence_wait_end [Tracepoint event]
writeback:wbc_writeback_wait [Tracepoint event]
writeback:wbc_balance_dirty_wait [Tracepoint event]
writeback:writeback_congestion_wait [Tracepoint event]
writeback:writeback_wait_iff_congested [Tracepoint event]
sched:sched_wait_task [Tracepoint event]
sched:sched_process_wait [Tracepoint event]
sched:sched_stat_wait [Tracepoint event]
sched:sched_stat_iowait [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_enter_epoll_wait [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_exit_epoll_wait [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_enter_epoll_pwait [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_exit_epoll_pwait [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_enter_rt_sigtimedwait [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_exit_rt_sigtimedwait [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_enter_waitid [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_exit_waitid [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_enter_wait4 [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_exit_wait4 [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_enter_waitpid [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_exit_waitpid [Tracepoint event]
[root@emilia ~]#
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-list.c b/tools/perf/builtin-list.c
index d88c696..6313b6e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-list.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-list.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
*
* Copyright (C) 2009, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Copyright (C) 2008-2009, Red Hat Inc, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
+ * Copyright (C) 2011, Red Hat Inc, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
*/
#include "builtin.h"
@@ -13,9 +14,47 @@
#include "util/parse-events.h"
#include "util/cache.h"
-int cmd_list(int argc __used, const char **argv __used, const char *prefix __used)
+int cmd_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
{
setup_pager();
- print_events();
+
+ if (argc == 1)
+ print_events(NULL);
+ else {
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
+ if (i > 1)
+ putchar('\n');
+ if (strncmp(argv[i], "tracepoint", 10) == 0)
+ print_tracepoint_events(NULL, NULL);
+ else if (strcmp(argv[i], "hw") == 0 ||
+ strcmp(argv[i], "hardware") == 0)
+ print_events_type(PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE);
+ else if (strcmp(argv[i], "sw") == 0 ||
+ strcmp(argv[i], "software") == 0)
+ print_events_type(PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE);
+ else if (strcmp(argv[i], "cache") == 0 ||
+ strcmp(argv[i], "hwcache") == 0)
+ print_hwcache_events(NULL);
+ else {
+ char *sep = strchr(argv[i], ':'), *s;
+ int sep_idx;
+
+ if (sep == NULL) {
+ print_events(argv[i]);
+ continue;
+ }
+ sep_idx = sep - argv[i];
+ s = strdup(argv[i]);
+ if (s == NULL)
+ return -1;
+
+ s[sep_idx] = '\0';
+ print_tracepoint_events(s, s + sep_idx + 1);
+ free(s);
+ }
+ }
+ }
return 0;
}