perf parse-events: Add parse_events_option() variant that creates evlist

For the upcoming --switch-output-event option we want to create the side
band event, populate it with the specified events and then, if it is
present multiple times, go on adding to it, then, if the BPF tracking is
required, use the first event to set its attr.bpf_event to get those
PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT metadata events too.

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200429131106.27974-5-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 10107747b361..5795f3a8f71c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -2190,6 +2190,29 @@ int parse_events_option(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+int parse_events_option_new_evlist(const struct option *opt, const char *str, int unset)
+{
+	struct evlist **evlistp = opt->value;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (*evlistp == NULL) {
+		*evlistp = evlist__new();
+
+		if (*evlistp == NULL) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "Not enough memory to create evlist\n");
+			return -1;
+		}
+	}
+
+	ret = parse_events_option(opt, str, unset);
+	if (ret) {
+		evlist__delete(*evlistp);
+		*evlistp = NULL;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static int
 foreach_evsel_in_last_glob(struct evlist *evlist,
 			   int (*func)(struct evsel *evsel,