perf top: Allow disabling/enabling events dynamicly

Now it is possible to press CTRL+z at anytime and that will disable the
events being monitored, essentially turning 'top' into 'report', with
pressing CTRL+z again making it enable the events again, returning to
the 'top' behaviour, i.e. dynamic + decaying of older samples.

One may want, for instance, play with:

    -d, --delay <n>       number of seconds to delay between refreshes

and:

    -z, --zero            zero history across updates

Plus CTRL+z to see only the events since last zeroing, etc.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zq7tnh5462blt2yda0bcxh5b@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 38 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 6b987424d015..72d8a7ae5986 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -235,10 +235,13 @@ static void perf_top__show_details(struct perf_top *top)
 
 	more = symbol__annotate_printf(symbol, he->ms.map, top->sym_evsel,
 				       0, top->sym_pcnt_filter, top->print_entries, 4);
-	if (top->zero)
-		symbol__annotate_zero_histogram(symbol, top->sym_evsel->idx);
-	else
-		symbol__annotate_decay_histogram(symbol, top->sym_evsel->idx);
+
+	if (top->evlist->enabled) {
+		if (top->zero)
+			symbol__annotate_zero_histogram(symbol, top->sym_evsel->idx);
+		else
+			symbol__annotate_decay_histogram(symbol, top->sym_evsel->idx);
+	}
 	if (more != 0)
 		printf("%d lines not displayed, maybe increase display entries [e]\n", more);
 out_unlock:
@@ -276,11 +279,13 @@ static void perf_top__print_sym_table(struct perf_top *top)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	if (top->zero) {
-		hists__delete_entries(hists);
-	} else {
-		hists__decay_entries(hists, top->hide_user_symbols,
-				     top->hide_kernel_symbols);
+	if (top->evlist->enabled) {
+		if (top->zero) {
+			hists__delete_entries(hists);
+		} else {
+			hists__decay_entries(hists, top->hide_user_symbols,
+					     top->hide_kernel_symbols);
+		}
 	}
 
 	hists__collapse_resort(hists, NULL);
@@ -545,11 +550,13 @@ static void perf_top__sort_new_samples(void *arg)
 
 	hists = evsel__hists(t->sym_evsel);
 
-	if (t->zero) {
-		hists__delete_entries(hists);
-	} else {
-		hists__decay_entries(hists, t->hide_user_symbols,
-				     t->hide_kernel_symbols);
+	if (t->evlist->enabled) {
+		if (t->zero) {
+			hists__delete_entries(hists);
+		} else {
+			hists__decay_entries(hists, t->hide_user_symbols,
+					     t->hide_kernel_symbols);
+		}
 	}
 
 	hists__collapse_resort(hists, NULL);
@@ -579,8 +586,21 @@ static void *display_thread_tui(void *arg)
 		hists->uid_filter_str = top->record_opts.target.uid_str;
 	}
 
-	perf_evlist__tui_browse_hists(top->evlist, help, &hbt, top->min_percent,
-				      &top->session->header.env);
+	while (true)  {
+		int key = perf_evlist__tui_browse_hists(top->evlist, help, &hbt,
+							top->min_percent,
+							&top->session->header.env);
+
+		if (key != CTRL('z'))
+			break;
+
+		perf_evlist__toggle_enable(top->evlist);
+		/*
+		 * No need to refresh, resort/decay histogram entries
+		 * if we are not collecting samples:
+		 */
+		hbt.refresh = top->evlist->enabled ? top->delay_secs : 0;
+	}
 
 	done = 1;
 	return NULL;
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
index e64893f2fd7f..8f7c4d49d327 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
@@ -1736,6 +1736,7 @@ static int perf_evsel__hists_browse(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int nr_events,
 	"t             Zoom into current Thread\n"
 	"V             Verbose (DSO names in callchains, etc)\n"
 	"z             Toggle zeroing of samples\n"
+	"CTRL+z        Enable/Disable events\n"
 	"/             Filter symbol by name";
 
 	if (browser == NULL)
@@ -1900,6 +1901,7 @@ static int perf_evsel__hists_browse(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int nr_events,
 			/* Fall thru */
 		case 'q':
 		case CTRL('c'):
+		case CTRL('z'):
 			goto out_free_stack;
 		default:
 			continue;