Re: [PATCH] perf report: Add option to collapse undesired parts of call graph

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf report: Add option to collapse undesired parts of call graph
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 09:47:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130625074734.GD11420@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130624231426.GY22203@biohazard-cafe.mit.edu>

* Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> > It would also be nice if all these visualization variants were available 
> > in the GTK front-end.
> 
> TBH I'm not really familiar with the GTK front-end, as I mainly use
> the TUI.  At a quick trial, it looks like --blackbox has the expected
> effect on the display there; though with or without --blackbox I can't
> seem to get the entries to expand to show me a call-graph profile, so
> it's hard to demonstrate it fully.  Not sure what I may have done
> wrong in building or running perf to make that not work (or is that
> expected?)
> 
> What changes do you have in mind to make these available in the GTK
> front-end?

I was thinking of something obvious like right-clicking it to make that 
function back boxed away or so? Have no firm ideas - maybe the GTK gents 
on Cc: know how to best integrate such features.

Thanks,

	Ingo