From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> To filter out events for a certain pid, for instance, when tracing system wide, so that the tracer itself doesn't creates an event loop.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Don Zickus <[email protected]> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 13 +++++++++++++ tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c index a8b2c5726aba..39302a455a58 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c @@ -1085,6 +1085,19 @@ int perf_evlist__set_filter(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *filter) return err; } +int perf_evlist__set_filter_pid(struct perf_evlist *evlist, pid_t pid) +{ + char *filter; + int ret; + + if (asprintf(&filter, "common_pid != %d", pid) < 0) + return -1; + + ret = perf_evlist__set_filter(evlist, filter); + free(filter); + return ret; +} + bool perf_evlist__valid_sample_type(struct perf_evlist *evlist) { struct perf_evsel *pos; diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h index c94a9e03ecf1..715fa3a296f4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ int perf_evlist__add_newtp(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *sys, const char *name, void *handler); int perf_evlist__set_filter(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *filter); +int perf_evlist__set_filter_pid(struct perf_evlist *evlist, pid_t pid); struct perf_evsel * perf_evlist__find_tracepoint_by_id(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int id); -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
