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/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 09f8d23..a71eeb2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -1177,8 +1177,7 @@
return -1;
}
- last->filter = strdup(str);
- if (last->filter == NULL) {
+ if (perf_evsel__set_filter(last, str) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
return -1;
}