On 11/23/16 11:30 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote: > Hi David, > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:13:46PM -0500, David Ahern wrote: >> On 11/23/16 8:11 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote: >>> The sched_switch event always captured from the scheduler function. So >>> it'd be great omit them from the callchain. This patch marks the >>> functions to be omitted by later patch. >> >> I had this covered by a symbol filter: >> >> https://github.com/dsahern/linux/blob/perf/full-monty-4.1/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c#L3000 >> >> Not sure what happened over the years but that should still work and >> allows the user to add more symbols to ignore: > > The symbol filter was removed by commit be39db9f2932 ("perf symbols: > Remove symbol_filter_t machinery").
That's unfortunate. The exclude list is huge in removing redundant callchains and getting more relevant information on the screen with a stack depth of 5. I'll see what I can cook up with the existing code.
