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From:   Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
To:     Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf parse: Allow names to start with digits
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Jiri Olsa wrote on Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 05:48:03PM +0200:
> > > > -name		[a-zA-Z_*?\[\]][a-zA-Z0-9_*?.\[\]!]*
> > > > +name		[a-zA-Z0-9_*?\[\]][a-zA-Z0-9_*?.\[\]!]*
> 
> I thought it'd clash with events like cpu/event=3/,
> but lexer check numbers first, so we're fine there
> 
> it smells like it could break some events, but I couldn't
> find any case of that
> 
> could you please at least add tests to tests/parse-events.c
> for such case?

hmm, I'd love to but on my system I have no events that start with a
number unless I manually modprobe 9pnet (or 802154 stuff), so tests
would start failing for most people and I don't think we want that...

I have confirmed the following 'perf test "event parsing"' works iff
patch is applied and 9pnet loaded:
---- 
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c
index 459afdb256a1..3d069fe9eb79 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c
@@ -1941,6 +1941,11 @@ static const struct evlist_test test__events[] = {
 		.check = test__exclusive_group,
 		/* 7 */
 	},
+	{
+		.name  = "9p:9p_client_req",
+		.check = test__checkevent_tracepoint,
+		/* 8 */
+	},
 };
 
 static const struct evlist_test test__events_pmu[] = {
----

not sure if there'd be any other way of testing, there's nothing else in
'perf list' that starts with a number.
--
Dominique