linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1 tip] perf top: Move hard coded list to /etc/perfconfig/symbols.skip

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:07:56 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 tip] perf top: Move hard coded list to
 /etc/perfconfig/symbols.skip

On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 21:10 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> This also paves the way to add more symbol lists to be filtered out,
> spinlock anyone?

Doesn't seem like a good idea to filter out symbols that actually affect
performance -- such as spinlocks.

But yeah, the patch makes sense and allows people to mess up their own
environments :-)

Queued this and the previous one, Thanks!

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