Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits)
  trace, filters: Initialize the match variable in process_ops() properly
  trace, documentation: Fix branch profiling location in debugfs
  oprofile, s390: Cleanups
  oprofile, s390: Remove hwsampler_files.c and merge it into init.c
  perf: Fix tear-down of inherited group events
  perf: Reorder & optimize perf_event_context to remove alignment padding on 64 bit builds
  perf: Handle stopped state with tracepoints
  perf: Fix the software events state check
  perf, powerpc: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing
  perf, x86: Use INTEL_*_CONSTRAINT() for all PEBS event constraints
  perf, x86: Clean up SandyBridge PEBS events
  perf lock: Fix sorting by wait_min
  perf tools: Version incorrect with some versions of grep
  perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file
  perf script: Add support for H/W and S/W events
  perf script: Add support for dumping symbols
  perf script: Support custom field selection for output
  perf script: Move printing of 'common' data from print_event and rename
  perf tracing: Remove print_graph_cpu and print_graph_proc from trace-event-parse
  perf script: Change process_event prototype
  ...

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 54a7e2634d5..952b4ae3d95 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -263,6 +263,28 @@ static char *event_cache_name(u8 cache_type, u8 cache_op, u8 cache_result)
 	return name;
 }
 
+const char *event_type(int type)
+{
+	switch (type) {
+	case PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE:
+		return "hardware";
+
+	case PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE:
+		return "software";
+
+	case PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT:
+		return "tracepoint";
+
+	case PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE:
+		return "hardware-cache";
+
+	default:
+		break;
+	}
+
+	return "unknown";
+}
+
 const char *event_name(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
 {
 	u64 config = evsel->attr.config;