perf record: Apply filter to all events in a glob matching

There is an old problem in perf's filter applying which first posted at
Sep. 2014 at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/9/944 that, if passing
multiple events in a glob matching expression in cmdline then add
'--filter' after them, the filter will be applied on only the last one.

For example:

 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null &
 [1] 464
 # perf record -a -e 'syscalls:sys_*_read' --filter 'common_pid != 464' sleep 0.1
 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.239 MB perf.data (2094 samples) ]
 # perf report --stdio | tee
 ...
 # Samples: 2K of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 2092
 ...
 # Samples: 2  of event 'syscalls:sys_exit_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 2
 ...

In this example, filter only applied on 'syscalls:sys_exit_read', and
there's no way to set filter for ''syscalls:sys_enter_read'.

This patch adds a 'cmdline_group_boundary' for 'struct evsel', and
apply filter on all events between two boundary marks.

After applying this patch:

 # perf record -a -e 'syscalls:sys_*_read' --filter 'common_pid != 464' sleep 0.1
 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.031 MB perf.data (3 samples) ]
 # perf report --stdio | tee
 ...
 # Samples: 1  of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 1
 ...
 # Samples: 2  of event 'syscalls:sys_exit_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 2
 ...

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436513770-8896-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index a71eeb2..bbb7fbc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -1065,8 +1065,13 @@ int parse_events(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *str,
 	perf_pmu__parse_cleanup();
 	if (!ret) {
 		int entries = data.idx - evlist->nr_entries;
+		struct perf_evsel *last;
+
 		perf_evlist__splice_list_tail(evlist, &data.list, entries);
 		evlist->nr_groups += data.nr_groups;
+		last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);
+		last->cmdline_group_boundary = true;
+
 		return 0;
 	}
 
@@ -1171,16 +1176,23 @@ int parse_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
 	if (evlist->nr_entries > 0)
 		last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);
 
-	if (last == NULL || last->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
-		fprintf(stderr,
-			"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
-		return -1;
-	}
+	do {
+		if (last == NULL || last->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
+			fprintf(stderr,
+				"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
+			return -1;
+		}
 
-	if (perf_evsel__set_filter(last, str) < 0) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
-		return -1;
-	}
+		if (perf_evsel__set_filter(last, str) < 0) {
+			fprintf(stderr,
+				"not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
+			return -1;
+		}
+
+		if (last->node.prev == &evlist->entries)
+			return 0;
+		last = list_entry(last->node.prev, struct perf_evsel, node);
+	} while (!last->cmdline_group_boundary);
 
 	return 0;
 }