Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Mar 2012 08:36:19 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] perf report: Implement symbol filtering on TUI |
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* Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> wrote:
> > - unknown symbols are not matched, and thus they will show up > > indiscrimnately even though I only want to see them if the > > filter is something like '0x' or 'unknown'. > > > > Since they have no symbol. :) In the current implementation, > it will actually show you such symbols if you enter '0x' or > 'unknown' as a filter unless there're symbols that have those > letters in its name. > > I can think of 3 solutions for this now: > > 1. Adding a special filter keyword (like 'unknown'). But there's > probably some symbols which have those letters. > > 2. If filter string consists of (hex-) digits only, it will only > show hist entries doesn't have symbols, or tries to match based on > its ip. > > 3. Implement zooming-in to "unknown" dso. Maybe it's a different > issue, but I think it's good to have and it'll helps this too. > > What do you guys think?
Well, the main problem I had was that they showed up in the 'perf report sched' filtered output and messed it up.
I.e. I'm not interested in unknown symbols much, I'm interested in *not* seeing them when I type 'perf report sched'.
Thanks,
Ingo
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