perf probe: Check new event name
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:24:15 +0000 (17:24 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:42:44 +0000 (09:42 +0100)
commitb7702a2136b5f8e0e186e22cae91aaecf98b418c
tree79562d989a3760252d50a9e2b6e55138a39a29b6
parent6f3cf440470650b3841d325acacd0c5ea9504c68
perf probe: Check new event name

Check new event name is same syntax as a C symbol in perf command.
In other words, checking the name is as like as other tracepoint
events.

This can prevent user to create an event with useless name (e.g.
foo|bar, foo*bar).

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
LKML-Reference: <20091216222415.14459.71383.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
[ v2: minor cleanups ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
tools/perf/util/probe-event.c