Use more flexible pattern matching for CPU identification for mapfile.csv

index 9eb7047bafe4..b578aa26e375 100644
@@ -116,6 +116,43 @@ static void fixdesc(char *s)
 		*e = 0;
 }
 
+/* Add escapes for '\' so they are proper C strings. */
+static char *fixregex(char *s)
+{
+	int len = 0;
+	int esc_count = 0;
+	char *fixed = NULL;
+	char *p, *q;
+
+	/* Count the number of '\' in string */
+	for (p = s; *p; p++) {
+		++len;
+		if (*p == '\\')
+			++esc_count;
+	}
+
+	if (esc_count == 0)
+		return s;
+
+	/* allocate space for a new string */
+	fixed = (char *) malloc(len + 1);
+	if (!fixed)
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* copy over the characters */
+	q = fixed;
+	for (p = s; *p; p++) {
+		if (*p == '\\') {
+			*q = '\\';
+			++q;
+		}
+		*q = *p;
+		++q;
+	}
+	*q = '\0';
+	return fixed;
+}
+
 static struct msrmap {
 	const char *num;
 	const char *pname;

@@ -648,7 +685,7 @@ static int process_mapfile(FILE *outfp, char *fpath)
 		}
 		line[strlen(line)-1] = '\0';
 
-		cpuid = strtok_r(p, ",", &save);
+		cpuid = fixregex(strtok_r(p, ",", &save));
 		version = strtok_r(NULL, ",", &save);
 		fname = strtok_r(NULL, ",", &save);
 		type = strtok_r(NULL, ",", &save);

index 07cb2ac041d7..fc8866e8b02a 100644
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <dirent.h>
 #include <api/fs/fs.h>
 #include <locale.h>
+#include <regex.h>
 #include "util.h"
 #include "pmu.h"
 #include "parse-events.h"

@@ -570,14 +571,31 @@ struct pmu_events_map *perf_pmu__find_map(void)
 
 	i = 0;
 	for (;;) {
+		regex_t re;
+		regmatch_t pmatch[1];
+		int match;
+
 		map = &pmu_events_map[i++];
 		if (!map->table) {
 			map = NULL;
 			break;
 		}
 
-		if (!strcmp(map->cpuid, cpuid))
+		if (regcomp(&re, map->cpuid, REG_EXTENDED) != 0) {
+			/* Warn unable to generate match particular string. */
+			pr_info("Invalid regular expression %s\n", map->cpuid);
 			break;
+		}
+
+		match = !regexec(&re, cpuid, 1, pmatch, 0);
+		regfree(&re);
+		if (match) {
+			size_t match_len = (pmatch[0].rm_eo - pmatch[0].rm_so);
+
+			/* Verify the entire string matched. */
+			if (match_len == strlen(cpuid))
+				break;
+		}
 	}
 	free(cpuid);
 	return map;