[tip:perf/core] perf scripts: Add --symbols option to handle specific symbols

tip-bot for Feng Tang
2012-09-19T15:22:47Z

Commit-ID: 36385be55da10b3271407c45c3a62d9af3db666e
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/36385be55da10b3271407c45c3a62d9af3db666e
Author: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 16:42:24 +0800
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:11:06 -0300

perf scripts: Add --symbols option to handle specific symbols

Since perf script no longer only handle the trace points, we can add the
symbol filter option so that scripts can handle specified samples.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347007349-3102-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
index 6d98a83..76577e6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include "util/util.h"
#include "util/evlist.h"
#include "util/evsel.h"
+#include "util/sort.h"
#include <linux/bitmap.h>

static char const *script_name;
@@ -1143,6 +1144,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
parse_output_fields),
OPT_BOOLEAN('a', "all-cpus", &system_wide,
"system-wide collection from all CPUs"),
+ OPT_STRING('S', "symbols", &symbol_conf.sym_list_str, "symbol[,symbol...]",
+ "only consider these symbols"),
OPT_STRING('C', "cpu", &cpu_list, "cpu", "list of cpus to profile"),
OPT_STRING('c', "comms", &symbol_conf.comm_list_str, "comm[,comm...]",
"only display events for these comms"),