From: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> 'perf test' tries to parse all entries in /sys/devices/cpu/events/. Ignore the special entries like '.scale', which cannot be directly parsed as an event. This patch assumes all files containing a '.' are special and can be ignored.
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465223766-29902-1-git-send-email-a...@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c index 7865f68dc0d8..b2a2c74136a5 100644 --- a/tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c +++ b/tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c @@ -1783,8 +1783,8 @@ static int test_pmu_events(void) struct evlist_test e; char name[MAX_NAME]; - if (!strcmp(ent->d_name, ".") || - !strcmp(ent->d_name, "..")) + /* Names containing . are special and cannot be used directly */ + if (strchr(ent->d_name, '.')) continue; snprintf(name, MAX_NAME, "cpu/event=%s/u", ent->d_name); -- 2.5.5
