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>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index f36d24a02445..b0b15e213df5 100644
--- 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);