perf expr: Allow exponents on floating point values

Pass the optional exponent component through to strtod that already
supports it. We already have exponents in ScaleUnit and so this adds
uniformity.

Reported-by: Zhengjun Xing <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Kajol Jain <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Richter <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

Author: captain5050

tools/perf/tests/expr.c

@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ static int test__expr(struct test_suite *t __maybe_unused, int subtest __maybe_u
 	ret |= test(ctx, "2.2 > 2.2", 0);
 	ret |= test(ctx, "2.2 < 1.1", 0);
 	ret |= test(ctx, "1.1 > 2.2", 0);
+	ret |= test(ctx, "1.1e10 < 1.1e100", 1);
+	ret |= test(ctx, "1.1e2 > 1.1e-2", 1);
 
 	if (ret) {
 		expr__ctx_free(ctx);

tools/perf/util/expr.l

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static int literal(yyscan_t scanner)
 }
 %}
 
-number		([0-9]+\.?[0-9]*|[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+)
+number		([0-9]+\.?[0-9]*|[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+)(e-?[0-9]+)?
 
 sch		[-,=]
 spec		\\{sch}