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perf symbols: Filter samples with unresolved symbol when "--symbols" option is used

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Report/top commands support to only handle specific symbols with
"--symbols" option, but current code will keep those samples whose
symbol can't be resolved, which should actually be filtered.

If we run following commands:
$perf record -a tree
$perf report --symbols intel_idle -n
the output will be:

Without the patch:
==================
    46.27%        156     sshd  [unknown]
    26.05%         48  swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]
    17.26%         38     tree  libc-2.12.1.so
     7.69%         17     tree  tree
     2.73%          6     tree  ld-2.12.1.so

With the patch:
===============
   100.00%         48  swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]

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@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347007349-3102-2-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Feng Tang 2012-09-07 16:42:23 +08:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 87ff50a319
commit 1500b93b61
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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tools/perf/util/event.c
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@ -904,8 +904,9 @@ int perf_event__preprocess_sample(const union perf_event *event,
al->sym = map__find_symbol(al->map, al->addr, filter);
}
if (symbol_conf.sym_list && al->sym &&
!strlist__has_entry(symbol_conf.sym_list, al->sym->name))
if (symbol_conf.sym_list &&
(!al->sym || !strlist__has_entry(symbol_conf.sym_list,
al->sym->name)))
goto out_filtered;
return 0;