tree ac2dcb9536fff5a8232519e5306ad05b3ed8900d
parent 6f8d67fa0c6bdca535ecab137c44b095023cc1b4
author David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> 1384806764 -0700
committer Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 1385575117 -0300

perf evsel: Skip ignored symbols while printing callchain

Allows a command to have a symbol_filter controlled by the user to skip
certain functions in a backtrace. One example is to allow the user to
reduce repeating patterns like:

    do_select  core_sys_select  sys_select

to just sys_select when dumping callchains, consuming less real estate
on the screen while still conveying the essential message - the process
is in a select call.

This option is leveraged by the upcoming timehist command.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384806771-2945-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
[ Checked if al.sym is NULL before touching al.sym->ignored, as noted by Adrian Hunter ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>