[PATCH 1/2] perf record: Apply filter to all events in a glob matching

[PATCH 1/2] perf record: Apply filter to all events in a glob matching

[Wang Nan]

There is an old problem in perf's filter applying which first posted
at Sep. 2014 at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/9/944 that, if passing
multiple events in a glob matching expression in cmdline then add
'--filter' after them, the filter will be applied on only the last one.

For example:

 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null &
 [1] 464
 # perf record -a -e 'syscalls:sys_*_read' --filter 'common_pid != 464' sleep 0.1
 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.239 MB perf.data (2094 samples) ]
 # perf report --stdio | tee
 ...
 # Samples: 2K of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 2092
 ...
 # Samples: 2  of event 'syscalls:sys_exit_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 2
 ...

In this example, filter only applied on 'syscalls:sys_exit_read', and
there's no way to set filter for ''syscalls:sys_enter_read'.

This patch adds a 'cmdline_group_boundary' for 'struct evsel', and
apply filter on all events between two boundary marks.

After applying this patch:

 # perf record -a -e 'syscalls:sys_*_read' --filter 'common_pid != 464' sleep 0.1
 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.031 MB perf.data (3 samples) ]
 # perf report --stdio | tee
 ...
 # Samples: 1  of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 1
 ...
 # Samples: 2  of event 'syscalls:sys_exit_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 2
 ...

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c        |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h        |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 83c0803..49fb7b5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ void perf_evsel__init(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
 	perf_evsel__object.init(evsel);
 	evsel->sample_size = __perf_evsel__sample_size(attr->sample_type);
 	perf_evsel__calc_id_pos(evsel);
+	evsel->cmdline_group_boundary = false;
 }
 
 struct perf_evsel *perf_evsel__new_idx(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int idx)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index fe9f327..1fc263a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ struct perf_evsel {
 	unsigned long		*per_pkg_mask;
 	struct perf_evsel	*leader;
 	char			*group_name;
+	bool			cmdline_group_boundary;
 };
 
 union u64_swap {
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index a71eeb2..bbb7fbc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -1065,8 +1065,13 @@ int parse_events(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *str,
 	perf_pmu__parse_cleanup();
 	if (!ret) {
 		int entries = data.idx - evlist->nr_entries;
+		struct perf_evsel *last;
+
 		perf_evlist__splice_list_tail(evlist, &data.list, entries);
 		evlist->nr_groups += data.nr_groups;
+		last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);
+		last->cmdline_group_boundary = true;
+
 		return 0;
 	}
 
@@ -1171,16 +1176,23 @@ int parse_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
 	if (evlist->nr_entries > 0)
 		last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);
 
-	if (last == NULL || last->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
-		fprintf(stderr,
-			"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
-		return -1;
-	}
+	do {
+		if (last == NULL || last->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
+			fprintf(stderr,
+				"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
+			return -1;
+		}
 
-	if (perf_evsel__set_filter(last, str) < 0) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
-		return -1;
-	}
+		if (perf_evsel__set_filter(last, str) < 0) {
+			fprintf(stderr,
+				"not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
+			return -1;
+		}
+
+		if (last->node.prev == &evlist->entries)
+			return 0;
+		last = list_entry(last->node.prev, struct perf_evsel, node);
+	} while (!last->cmdline_group_boundary);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.8.3.4

[PATCH 2/2] perf record: Allow passing perf's own pid to '--filter'

[Wang Nan]

This patch allows 'perf record' to exclude events issued by perf itself
by '--exclude-perf' option.


Before this patch, when doing something like:

 # perf record -a -e syscalls:sys_enter_write <cmd>

One could easily get result like this:

 # /tmp/perf report --stdio
 ...
  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object       Symbol
  # ........  .......  ..................  ....................
  #
      99.99%  perf     libpthread-2.18.so  [.] __write_nocancel
      0.01%   ls       libc-2.18.so        [.] write
      0.01%   sshd     libc-2.18.so        [.] write
 ...

Where most events are generated by perf itself.


A shell trick can be done to filter perf itself out:

 # cat << EOF > ./tmp
 > #!/bin/sh
 > exec perf record -e ... --filter="common_pid != \$\$" -a sleep 10
 > EOF
 # chmod a+x ./tmp
 # ./tmp

However, doing so is user unfriendly.

This patch extracts evsel iteration framework introduced by patch 'perf
record: Apply filter to all events in a glob matching' into
foreach_evsel_in_last_glob(), and makes exclude_perf() function append
new filter expression to each evsel selected by a '-e' selector.

To avoid losing filters if user pass '--filter' after '--exclude-perf',
this patch uses perf_evsel__append_filter() in both case, instead of
perf_evsel__set_filter() which removes old filter. As a side effect, now
it is possible to use multiple '--filter' option for one selector. They
are combinded with '&&'.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 11 ++++-
 tools/perf/builtin-record.c              |  3 ++
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c           | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.h           |  1 +
 4 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 9b9d9d0..cb5ca6d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -61,7 +61,16 @@ OPTIONS
 	  "perf report" to view group events together.
 
 --filter=<filter>::
-        Event filter.
+        Event filter. This option should follow a event selector (-e) which
+	selects tracepoint event(s). Multiple '--filter' options are combined
+	using '&&'.
+
+--exclude-perf::
+	Don't record events issued by perf itself. This option should follow
+	a event selector (-e) which selects tracepoint event(s). It adds a
+	filter expression 'common_pid != $PERFPID' to filters. If other
+	'--filter' exists, the new filter expression will be combined with
+	them by '&&'.
 
 -a::
 --all-cpus::
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 283fe96..1932e27 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -992,6 +992,9 @@ struct option __record_options[] = {
 		     parse_events_option),
 	OPT_CALLBACK(0, "filter", &record.evlist, "filter",
 		     "event filter", parse_filter),
+	OPT_CALLBACK_NOOPT(0, "exclude-perf", &record.evlist,
+			   NULL, "don't record events from perf itself",
+			   exclude_perf),
 	OPT_STRING('p', "pid", &record.opts.target.pid, "pid",
 		    "record events on existing process id"),
 	OPT_STRING('t', "tid", &record.opts.target.tid, "tid",
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index bbb7fbc..4f807fc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -1167,27 +1167,24 @@ int parse_events_option(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-int parse_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
-		 int unset __maybe_unused)
+static int
+foreach_evsel_in_last_glob(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
+			   int (*func)(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
+				       const void *arg),
+			   const void *arg)
 {
-	struct perf_evlist *evlist = *(struct perf_evlist **)opt->value;
 	struct perf_evsel *last = NULL;
+	int err;
 
 	if (evlist->nr_entries > 0)
 		last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);
 
 	do {
-		if (last == NULL || last->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
-			fprintf(stderr,
-				"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
-			return -1;
-		}
-
-		if (perf_evsel__set_filter(last, str) < 0) {
-			fprintf(stderr,
-				"not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
+		err = (*func)(last, arg);
+		if (err)
 			return -1;
-		}
+		if (!last)
+			return 0;
 
 		if (last->node.prev == &evlist->entries)
 			return 0;
@@ -1197,6 +1194,66 @@ int parse_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int set_filter(struct perf_evsel *evsel, const void *arg)
+{
+	const char *str = arg;
+
+	if (evsel == NULL || evsel->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
+		fprintf(stderr,
+			"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	if (perf_evsel__append_filter(evsel, "&&", str) < 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr,
+			"not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int parse_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
+		 int unset __maybe_unused)
+{
+	struct perf_evlist *evlist = *(struct perf_evlist **)opt->value;
+
+	return foreach_evsel_in_last_glob(evlist, set_filter,
+					  (const void *)str);
+}
+
+static int add_exclude_perf_filter(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
+				   const void *arg __maybe_unused)
+{
+	char new_filter[64];
+
+	if (evsel == NULL || evsel->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
+		fprintf(stderr,
+			"--exclude-perf option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	snprintf(new_filter, sizeof(new_filter), "common_pid != %d", getpid());
+
+	if (perf_evsel__append_filter(evsel, "&&", new_filter) < 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr,
+			"not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int exclude_perf(const struct option *opt,
+		 const char *arg __maybe_unused,
+		 int unset __maybe_unused)
+{
+	struct perf_evlist *evlist = *(struct perf_evlist **)opt->value;
+
+	return foreach_evsel_in_last_glob(evlist, add_exclude_perf_filter,
+					  NULL);
+}
+
 static const char * const event_type_descriptors[] = {
 	"Hardware event",
 	"Software event",
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
index 131f29b..2063048 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ extern int parse_events(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *str,
 			struct parse_events_error *error);
 extern int parse_events_terms(struct list_head *terms, const char *str);
 extern int parse_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *str, int unset);
+extern int exclude_perf(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset);
 
 #define EVENTS_HELP_MAX (128*1024)
 
-- 
1.8.3.4

Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf record: Apply filter to all events in a glob matching

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 07:36:09AM +0000, Wang Nan escreveu:
> There is an old problem in perf's filter applying which first posted
> at Sep. 2014 at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/9/944 that, if passing
> multiple events in a glob matching expression in cmdline then add
> '--filter' after them, the filter will be applied on only the last one.
> 
> For example:

Thanks, applied both patches,

- Arnaldo

[tip:perf/core] perf record: Apply filter to all events in a glob matching

[tip-bot for Wang Nan]

Commit-ID:  15bfd2cc107a9971ac8aeb4b7724ced581a2ed30
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/15bfd2cc107a9971ac8aeb4b7724ced581a2ed30
Author:     Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 07:36:09 +0000
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:28:33 -0300

perf record: Apply filter to all events in a glob matching

There is an old problem in perf's filter applying which first posted at
Sep. 2014 at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/9/944 that, if passing
multiple events in a glob matching expression in cmdline then add
'--filter' after them, the filter will be applied on only the last one.

For example:

 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null &
 [1] 464
 # perf record -a -e 'syscalls:sys_*_read' --filter 'common_pid != 464' sleep 0.1
 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.239 MB perf.data (2094 samples) ]
 # perf report --stdio | tee
 ...
 # Samples: 2K of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 2092
 ...
 # Samples: 2  of event 'syscalls:sys_exit_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 2
 ...

In this example, filter only applied on 'syscalls:sys_exit_read', and
there's no way to set filter for ''syscalls:sys_enter_read'.

This patch adds a 'cmdline_group_boundary' for 'struct evsel', and
apply filter on all events between two boundary marks.

After applying this patch:

 # perf record -a -e 'syscalls:sys_*_read' --filter 'common_pid != 464' sleep 0.1
 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.031 MB perf.data (3 samples) ]
 # perf report --stdio | tee
 ...
 # Samples: 1  of event 'syscalls:sys_enter_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 1
 ...
 # Samples: 2  of event 'syscalls:sys_exit_read'
 # Event count (approx.): 2
 ...

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436513770-8896-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c        |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h        |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 83c0803..49fb7b5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ void perf_evsel__init(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
 	perf_evsel__object.init(evsel);
 	evsel->sample_size = __perf_evsel__sample_size(attr->sample_type);
 	perf_evsel__calc_id_pos(evsel);
+	evsel->cmdline_group_boundary = false;
 }
 
 struct perf_evsel *perf_evsel__new_idx(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int idx)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index fe9f327..1fc263a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ struct perf_evsel {
 	unsigned long		*per_pkg_mask;
 	struct perf_evsel	*leader;
 	char			*group_name;
+	bool			cmdline_group_boundary;
 };
 
 union u64_swap {
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index a71eeb2..bbb7fbc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -1065,8 +1065,13 @@ int parse_events(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *str,
 	perf_pmu__parse_cleanup();
 	if (!ret) {
 		int entries = data.idx - evlist->nr_entries;
+		struct perf_evsel *last;
+
 		perf_evlist__splice_list_tail(evlist, &data.list, entries);
 		evlist->nr_groups += data.nr_groups;
+		last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);
+		last->cmdline_group_boundary = true;
+
 		return 0;
 	}
 
@@ -1171,16 +1176,23 @@ int parse_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
 	if (evlist->nr_entries > 0)
 		last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);
 
-	if (last == NULL || last->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
-		fprintf(stderr,
-			"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
-		return -1;
-	}
+	do {
+		if (last == NULL || last->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
+			fprintf(stderr,
+				"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
+			return -1;
+		}
 
-	if (perf_evsel__set_filter(last, str) < 0) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
-		return -1;
-	}
+		if (perf_evsel__set_filter(last, str) < 0) {
+			fprintf(stderr,
+				"not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
+			return -1;
+		}
+
+		if (last->node.prev == &evlist->entries)
+			return 0;
+		last = list_entry(last->node.prev, struct perf_evsel, node);
+	} while (!last->cmdline_group_boundary);
 
 	return 0;
 }

[tip:perf/core] perf record: Allow filtering perf' s pid via --exclude-perf

[tip-bot for Wang Nan]

Commit-ID:  4ba1faa19fa5f415bd69b1d7c366028332468bca
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/4ba1faa19fa5f415bd69b1d7c366028332468bca
Author:     Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 07:36:10 +0000
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:49:17 -0300

perf record: Allow filtering perf's pid via --exclude-perf

This patch allows 'perf record' to exclude events issued by perf itself
by '--exclude-perf' option.

Before this patch, when doing something like:

 # perf record -a -e syscalls:sys_enter_write <cmd>

One could easily get result like this:

 # /tmp/perf report --stdio
 ...
  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object       Symbol
  # ........  .......  ..................  ....................
  #
      99.99%  perf     libpthread-2.18.so  [.] __write_nocancel
      0.01%   ls       libc-2.18.so        [.] write
      0.01%   sshd     libc-2.18.so        [.] write
 ...

Where most events are generated by perf itself.

A shell trick can be done to filter perf itself out:

 # cat << EOF > ./tmp
 > #!/bin/sh
 > exec perf record -e ... --filter="common_pid != \$\$" -a sleep 10
 > EOF
 # chmod a+x ./tmp
 # ./tmp

However, doing so is user unfriendly.

This patch extracts evsel iteration framework introduced by patch 'perf
record: Apply filter to all events in a glob matching' into
foreach_evsel_in_last_glob(), and makes exclude_perf() function append
new filter expression to each evsel selected by a '-e' selector.

To avoid losing filters if user pass '--filter' after '--exclude-perf',
this patch uses perf_evsel__append_filter() in both case, instead of
perf_evsel__set_filter() which removes old filter. As a side effect, now
it is possible to use multiple '--filter' option for one selector. They
are combinded with '&&'.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436513770-8896-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 11 ++++-
 tools/perf/builtin-record.c              |  3 ++
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c           | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.h           |  1 +
 4 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 5b47b2c..29e5307 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -69,7 +69,16 @@ OPTIONS
 	  "perf report" to view group events together.
 
 --filter=<filter>::
-        Event filter.
+        Event filter. This option should follow a event selector (-e) which
+	selects tracepoint event(s). Multiple '--filter' options are combined
+	using '&&'.
+
+--exclude-perf::
+	Don't record events issued by perf itself. This option should follow
+	a event selector (-e) which selects tracepoint event(s). It adds a
+	filter expression 'common_pid != $PERFPID' to filters. If other
+	'--filter' exists, the new filter expression will be combined with
+	them by '&&'.
 
 -a::
 --all-cpus::
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 283fe96..1932e27 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -992,6 +992,9 @@ struct option __record_options[] = {
 		     parse_events_option),
 	OPT_CALLBACK(0, "filter", &record.evlist, "filter",
 		     "event filter", parse_filter),
+	OPT_CALLBACK_NOOPT(0, "exclude-perf", &record.evlist,
+			   NULL, "don't record events from perf itself",
+			   exclude_perf),
 	OPT_STRING('p', "pid", &record.opts.target.pid, "pid",
 		    "record events on existing process id"),
 	OPT_STRING('t', "tid", &record.opts.target.tid, "tid",
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index bbb7fbc..4f807fc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -1167,27 +1167,24 @@ int parse_events_option(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-int parse_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
-		 int unset __maybe_unused)
+static int
+foreach_evsel_in_last_glob(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
+			   int (*func)(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
+				       const void *arg),
+			   const void *arg)
 {
-	struct perf_evlist *evlist = *(struct perf_evlist **)opt->value;
 	struct perf_evsel *last = NULL;
+	int err;
 
 	if (evlist->nr_entries > 0)
 		last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);
 
 	do {
-		if (last == NULL || last->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
-			fprintf(stderr,
-				"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
-			return -1;
-		}
-
-		if (perf_evsel__set_filter(last, str) < 0) {
-			fprintf(stderr,
-				"not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
+		err = (*func)(last, arg);
+		if (err)
 			return -1;
-		}
+		if (!last)
+			return 0;
 
 		if (last->node.prev == &evlist->entries)
 			return 0;
@@ -1197,6 +1194,66 @@ int parse_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int set_filter(struct perf_evsel *evsel, const void *arg)
+{
+	const char *str = arg;
+
+	if (evsel == NULL || evsel->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
+		fprintf(stderr,
+			"--filter option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	if (perf_evsel__append_filter(evsel, "&&", str) < 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr,
+			"not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int parse_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
+		 int unset __maybe_unused)
+{
+	struct perf_evlist *evlist = *(struct perf_evlist **)opt->value;
+
+	return foreach_evsel_in_last_glob(evlist, set_filter,
+					  (const void *)str);
+}
+
+static int add_exclude_perf_filter(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
+				   const void *arg __maybe_unused)
+{
+	char new_filter[64];
+
+	if (evsel == NULL || evsel->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) {
+		fprintf(stderr,
+			"--exclude-perf option should follow a -e tracepoint option\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	snprintf(new_filter, sizeof(new_filter), "common_pid != %d", getpid());
+
+	if (perf_evsel__append_filter(evsel, "&&", new_filter) < 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr,
+			"not enough memory to hold filter string\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int exclude_perf(const struct option *opt,
+		 const char *arg __maybe_unused,
+		 int unset __maybe_unused)
+{
+	struct perf_evlist *evlist = *(struct perf_evlist **)opt->value;
+
+	return foreach_evsel_in_last_glob(evlist, add_exclude_perf_filter,
+					  NULL);
+}
+
 static const char * const event_type_descriptors[] = {
 	"Hardware event",
 	"Software event",
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
index 131f29b..2063048 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ extern int parse_events(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *str,
 			struct parse_events_error *error);
 extern int parse_events_terms(struct list_head *terms, const char *str);
 extern int parse_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *str, int unset);
+extern int exclude_perf(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset);
 
 #define EVENTS_HELP_MAX (128*1024)