On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 05:08:12PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:

Enable complex event names containing [.:=,] symbols to be encoded into Perf 
trace using name= modifier e.g. like this:

perf record -e cpu/name=\'OFFCORE_RESPONSE:request=DEMAND_RFO:response=L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM\',\
		period=0x3567e0,event=0x3c,cmask=0x1/Duk ./futex

Below is how it looks like in the report output. Please note explicit escaped 
quoting at cmdline string in the header so that thestring can be directly reused
for another collection in shell:

Patch looks good, but new syntax also needs to be documented in some manpage
(e.g. perf list)

-Andi