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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[ Checked if al.sym is NULL before touching al.sym->ignored, as noted by Adrian Hunter ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index f36d24a024453f6e2777d1bc4cfbb10fb9a3cf4a..b0b15e213df50d9624674b7f9de622a48b90b800 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -1522,6 +1522,9 @@ void perf_evsel__print_ip(struct perf_evsel *evsel, union perf_event *event,
                        if (!node)
                                break;
 
+                       if (node->sym && node->sym->ignore)
+                               goto next;
+
                        if (print_ip)
                                printf("%c%16" PRIx64, s, node->ip);
 
@@ -1544,12 +1547,15 @@ void perf_evsel__print_ip(struct perf_evsel *evsel, union perf_event *event,
                        if (!print_oneline)
                                printf("\n");
 
-                       callchain_cursor_advance(&callchain_cursor);
-
                        stack_depth--;
+next:
+                       callchain_cursor_advance(&callchain_cursor);
                }
 
        } else {
+               if (al.sym && al.sym->ignore)
+                       return;
+
                if (print_ip)
                        printf("%16" PRIx64, sample->ip);