Adding support to use comments within the custom metric file
with both the shell '# ... ' and C '/* ... */ styles.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
---
 tools/perf/util/expr.l | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/expr.l b/tools/perf/util/expr.l
index c6a930ed22e6..e9b294ba09fc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/expr.l
+++ b/tools/perf/util/expr.l
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ static int str(yyscan_t scanner, int token, int runtime)
 %}
 
 %x custom
+%x comment_single
+%x comment_multi
 
 number         [0-9]*\.?[0-9]+
 
@@ -116,6 +118,16 @@ else               { return ELSE; }
 #smt_on                { return SMT_ON; }
 {number}       { return value(yyscanner); }
 {symbol}       { return str(yyscanner, ID, sctx->runtime); }
+
+"//"                   { BEGIN(comment_single); }
+<comment_single>\n     { BEGIN(INITIAL); }
+<comment_single>.      { }
+
+"/*"                   { BEGIN(comment_multi); }
+<comment_multi>"*/"    { BEGIN(INITIAL); }
+<comment_multi>\n      { }
+<comment_multi>.       { }
+
 "|"            { return '|'; }
 "^"            { return '^'; }
 "&"            { return '&'; }
-- 
2.25.4

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