metric_list_cmp(9)

🎀 metric_list_cmp(9) 🎀

hiii bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for metric_list_cmp 💖 This is a list_sort comparator with main character energy: metrics with more events get sorted to the front, and tool events are excluded from that count. Periodt. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

metric_list_cmp — a list_sort comparator that sorts metrics with more events to the front. Tool events are excluded from the count.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int metric_list_cmp (void *priv , const struct list_head *l , const struct list_head *r );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

okay so the manual is being all mysterious here — these are literally marked as -- undescribed --:

• priv — -- undescribed --
• l — -- undescribed --
• r — -- undescribed --

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c

• setup_metric_events(9)
• resolve_metric(9)
• __add_metric(9)
• default_metricgroup_cmp(9)
• metricgroup__add_metric(9)
• metricgroup__add_metric_list(9)
• find_tool_events(9)
• build_combined_expr_ctx(9)
• parse_ids(9)

mwah 💋 — this lil page comes from ./tools/perf/util, dated October 2026. Byeee 🫶✨