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Re: [PATCH] perf, tools: Make alias matching case-insensitive

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Andi Kleen [andi@firstfloor.org] wrote:
| From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
| 
| Make alias matching the events parser case-insensitive. This is useful
| with the JSON events. perf uses lower case events, but the CPU manuals
| generally use upper case event names. The JSON files use lower
| case by default too. But if we search case insensitively then
| users can cut-n-paste the upper case event names.
| 
| So the following works:
| 
| % perf stat -e BR_INST_EXEC.TAKEN_INDIRECT_NEAR_CALL true
| 
|  Performance counter stats for 'true':
| 
|                305      BR_INST_EXEC.TAKEN_INDIRECT_NEAR_CALL
| 
|        0.000492799 seconds time elapsed
| 
| Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

I have also pushed this to 'json-v16' branch of my github tree:

	https://github.com/sukadev/linux

Sukadev

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[PATCH] perf, tools: Make alias matching case-insensitive Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2015-08-28 23:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] perf, tools: Make alias matching case-insensitive Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-08-31 21:00 +0200

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