For big string offsets we output comments for what string the offset
is for. If the string contains a '*/' as seen in Intel Arrowlake event
descriptions, then this causes C parsing issues for the generated
pmu-events.c. Catch such '*/' values and escape to avoid this.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
index 6e71b09dbc2a..028cf3c43881 100755
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
@@ -430,8 +430,11 @@ class JsonEvent:
def to_c_string(self, metric: bool) -> str:
"""Representation of the event as a C struct initializer."""
+ def fix_comment(s: str) -> str:
+ return s.replace('*/', '\*\/')
+
s = self.build_c_string(metric)
- return f'{{ { _bcs.offsets[s] } }}, /* {s} */\n'
+ return f'{{ { _bcs.offsets[s] } }}, /* {fix_comment(s)} */\n'
@lru_cache(maxsize=None)
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2.47.0.277.g8800431eea-goog