perf symbols: Move idle syms check from top to generic function

Allows list of idle symbols to be leveraged by other commands, such as
the upcoming timehist command.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384806771-2945-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

tools/perf/builtin-top.c

@@ -634,26 +634,9 @@ static void *display_thread(void *arg)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-/* Tag samples to be skipped. */
-static const char *skip_symbols[] = {
-	"intel_idle",
-	"default_idle",
-	"native_safe_halt",
-	"cpu_idle",
-	"enter_idle",
-	"exit_idle",
-	"mwait_idle",
-	"mwait_idle_with_hints",
-	"poll_idle",
-	"ppc64_runlatch_off",
-	"pseries_dedicated_idle_sleep",
-	NULL
-};
-
 static int symbol_filter(struct map *map __maybe_unused, struct symbol *sym)
 {
 	const char *name = sym->name;
-	int i;
 
 	/*
 	 * ppc64 uses function descriptors and appends a '.' to the
@@ -671,12 +654,8 @@ static int symbol_filter(struct map *map __maybe_unused, struct symbol *sym)
 	    strstr(name, "_text_end"))
 		return 1;
 
-	for (i = 0; skip_symbols[i]; i++) {
-		if (!strcmp(skip_symbols[i], name)) {
-			sym->ignore = true;
-			break;
-		}
-	}
+	if (symbol__is_idle(sym))
+		sym->ignore = true;
 
 	return 0;
 }

tools/perf/util/symbol.c

@@ -573,6 +573,36 @@ static u8 kallsyms2elf_type(char type)
 	return isupper(type) ? STB_GLOBAL : STB_LOCAL;
 }
 
+bool symbol__is_idle(struct symbol *sym)
+{
+	const char * const idle_symbols[] = {
+		"cpu_idle",
+		"intel_idle",
+		"default_idle",
+		"native_safe_halt",
+		"enter_idle",
+		"exit_idle",
+		"mwait_idle",
+		"mwait_idle_with_hints",
+		"poll_idle",
+		"ppc64_runlatch_off",
+		"pseries_dedicated_idle_sleep",
+		NULL
+	};
+
+	int i;
+
+	if (!sym)
+		return false;
+
+	for (i = 0; idle_symbols[i]; i++) {
+		if (!strcmp(idle_symbols[i], sym->name))
+			return true;
+	}
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 static int map__process_kallsym_symbol(void *arg, const char *name,
 				       char type, u64 start)
 {

tools/perf/util/symbol.h

@@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ size_t symbol__fprintf(struct symbol *sym, FILE *fp);
 bool symbol_type__is_a(char symbol_type, enum map_type map_type);
 bool symbol__restricted_filename(const char *filename,
 				 const char *restricted_filename);
+bool symbol__is_idle(struct symbol *sym);
 
 int dso__load_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, struct symsrc *syms_ss,
 		  struct symsrc *runtime_ss, symbol_filter_t filter,