perf script: Add comm filtering option

Allows collecting events system wide and then pulling out events for a
specific task name(s). e.g,

    perf script -c gnome-shell,gnome-terminal

Applies on top of:
    https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/13/74

v2->v3
- update Documentation

v1->v2
- use comm_list from symbol_conf

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321894972-24246-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
index 3613b0a1aff2..7f61eaaf9ab8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
@@ -188,6 +188,11 @@ OPTIONS
         CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. Default is to report samples on all
         CPUs.
 
+-c::
+--comms=::
+        Only display events for these comms. CSV that understands
+        file://filename entries.
+
 -I::
 --show-info::
         Display extended information about the perf.data file. This adds