When monitoring a large number of events (e.g., with wildcards such as
--event 'syscalls:sys_enter_*'), many matched events will return a count
of zero. This clutters the output, making it difficult to spot the
active events.
Add a new option --hide-zero-events to suppress printing events that
have a count of zero.
To prevent formatting and diagnostic issues, the zero-skipping logic
implements the following rules:
1. In metric-only mode (i.e., --metric-only), columns must remain
aligned in the output grid. We evaluate config->metric_only first
to avoid skipping zero-valued columns, preventing values from
shifting left and aligning under incorrect headers
2. For explicitly requested events, we ensure they are not silently
hidden if they are unsupported. We only hide a zero-count event
if counter->supported is true, ensuring that unsupported explicit
events still report "<not supported>"
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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