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    perf trace: Introduce --filter-pids · f078c385
    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
    When tracing in X we get event loops due to the tracing activity, i.e.
    updates to a gnome-terminal that generate syscalls for X.org, etc.
    
    To get a more useful view of what is happening, syscall wise, system
    wide, we need to filter those, like in:
    
     # ps ax|egrep '981|2296|1519' | grep -v egrep
       981 tty1 Ss+ 5:40 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -background none ...
      1519 ?    Sl  2:22 /usr/bin/gnome-shell
      2296 ?    Sl  4:16 /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server
     #
    
     # trace -e write --filter-pids 981,2296,1519
        0.385 ( 0.021 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 136) = 136
        0.922 ( 0.014 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 140) = 140
     5006.525 ( 0.029 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 136) = 136
     5007.235 ( 0.023 ms): goa-daemon/2061 write(fd: 1</dev/null>, buf: 0x7fbeb017b000, count: 140) = 140
     5177.646 ( 0.018 ms): rtkit-daemon/782 write(fd: 5<anon_inode:[eventfd]>, buf: 0x7f7eea70be88, count: 8) = 8
     8314.497 ( 0.004 ms): gsd-locate-poi/2084 write(fd: 5<anon_inode:[eventfd]>, buf: 0x7fffe96af7b0, count: 8) = 8
     8314.518 ( 0.002 ms): gsd-locate-poi/2084 write(fd: 5<anon_inode:[eventfd]>, buf: 0x7fffe96af0e0, count: 8) = 8
     ^C#
    
    When this option is used the tracer pid is also filtered.
    
    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-f5qmiyy7c0uxdm21ncatpeek@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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