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    perf pmu: Auto-merge PMU events created by prefix or glob match · c199c11d
    Agustin Vega-Frias authored
    Auto-merge for these events was disabled when auto-merging of non-alias
    events was disabled in commit 63ce8449
    
     (perf stat: Only auto-merge events
    that are PMU aliases).
    
    Non-merging of legacy events is preserved:
    
        $ perf stat -ag -e cache-misses,cache-misses sleep 1
    
         Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
    
                    86,323      cache-misses
                    86,323      cache-misses
    
               1.002623307 seconds time elapsed
    
    But prefix or glob matching auto-merges the events created:
    
        $ perf stat -a -e l3cache/read-miss/ sleep 1
    
         Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
    
                       328      l3cache/read-miss/
    
               1.002627008 seconds time elapsed
    
        $ perf stat -a -e l3cache_0_[01]/read-miss/ sleep 1
    
         Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
    
                       172      l3cache/read-miss/
    
               1.002627008 seconds time elapsed
    
    As with events created with aliases, auto-merging can be suppressed with
    the --no-merge option:
    
        $ perf stat -a -e l3cache/read-miss/ --no-merge sleep 1
    
         Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
    
                        67      l3cache/read-miss/
                        67      l3cache/read-miss/
                        63      l3cache/read-miss/
                        60      l3cache/read-miss/
    
               1.002622192 seconds time elapsed
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAgustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
    Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
    Change-Id: I0a47eed54c05e1982ca964d743b37f50f60c508c
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520345084-42646-4-git-send-email-agustinv@codeaurora.org
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    c199c11d