perf tools: Allow period= in perf stat CPU event descriptions.

This avoids the JSON PMU events parser having to know whether its
aliases are for perf stat or perf record.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-20-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 8f88f63..d445b11 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -924,6 +924,7 @@ config_term_avail(int term_type, struct parse_events_error *err)
        case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_CONFIG1:
        case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_CONFIG2:
        case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NAME:
+       case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_SAMPLE_PERIOD:
                return true;
        default:
                if (!err)