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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-02-21 19:09:55 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-02-23 02:14:25 +0100
commitcfd70a26aadf0a9af80bbce035e5760736727a94 (patch)
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parentperf trace: Only insert blank duration bracket when tracing syscalls (diff)
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perf evlist: Introduce set_filter_pid method
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 <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-byoia9dzu4gmkdv87etnd9zf@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/evlist.c')
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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;