perf_counter tools: Librarize event string parsing

Extract the event string parser from builtin-record.c, and
librarize it - to be reused in other commands.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/util/parse-events.h b/Documentation/perf_counter/util/parse-events.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6e2ebe5ff7d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/util/parse-events.h
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+
+extern int nr_counters;
+extern __u64                    event_id[MAX_COUNTERS];
+
+extern int parse_events(const struct option *opt, const char *str, int unset);
+
+#define EVENTS_HELP_MAX (128*1024)
+
+extern void create_events_help(char *help_msg);
+