perf tools: Default to cpu// for events v5
When an event fails to parse and it's not in a new style format,
try to parse it again as a cpu event.
This allows to use sysfs exported events directly without //, so you can use
perf record -e mem-loads ...
instead of
perf record -e cpu/mem-loads/
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366480949-32292-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/string.c b/tools/perf/util/string.c
index 29c7b2c..f0b0c00 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/string.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/string.c
@@ -387,3 +387,27 @@
return p;
}
+
+/**
+ * str_append - reallocate string and append another
+ * @s: pointer to string pointer
+ * @len: pointer to len (initialized)
+ * @a: string to append.
+ */
+int str_append(char **s, int *len, const char *a)
+{
+ int olen = *s ? strlen(*s) : 0;
+ int nlen = olen + strlen(a) + 1;
+ if (*len < nlen) {
+ *len = *len * 2;
+ if (*len < nlen)
+ *len = nlen;
+ *s = realloc(*s, *len);
+ if (!*s)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ if (olen == 0)
+ **s = 0;
+ }
+ strcat(*s, a);
+ return 0;
+}