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.t...@intel.com> --- tools/perf/util/event.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.c b/tools/perf/util/event.c index 3a0f1a5..08910f0 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/event.c @@ -886,8 +886,9 @@ 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; -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/