diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 8eab8a4bdeb8..09af66298564 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ OPTIONS
 --verbose::
         Be more verbose. (show symbol address, etc)
 
--d::
---dsos=::
-	Only consider symbols in these dsos. CSV that understands
-	file://filename entries.
 -n::
 --show-nr-samples::
 	Show the number of samples for each symbol
@@ -42,11 +38,18 @@ OPTIONS
 -c::
 --comms=::
 	Only consider symbols in these comms. CSV that understands
-	file://filename entries.
+	file://filename entries.  This option will affect the percentage of
+	the overhead column.  See --percentage for more info.
+-d::
+--dsos=::
+	Only consider symbols in these dsos. CSV that understands
+	file://filename entries.  This option will affect the percentage of
+	the overhead column.  See --percentage for more info.
 -S::
 --symbols=::
 	Only consider these symbols. CSV that understands
-	file://filename entries.
+	file://filename entries.  This option will affect the percentage of
+	the overhead column.  See --percentage for more info.
 
 --symbol-filter=::
 	Only show symbols that match (partially) with this filter.
@@ -237,6 +240,15 @@ OPTIONS
 	Do not show entries which have an overhead under that percent.
 	(Default: 0).
 
+--percentage::
+	Determine how to display the overhead percentage of filtered entries.
+	Filters can be applied by --comms, --dsos and/or --symbols options and
+	Zoom operations on the TUI (thread, dso, etc).
+
+	"relative" means it's relative to filtered entries only so that the
+	sum of shown entries will be always 100%.  "absolute" means it retains
+	the original value before and after the filter is applied.
+
 --header::
 	Show header information in the perf.data file.  This includes
 	various information like hostname, OS and perf version, cpu/mem
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index 2fca56c9d68a..7ec351bda833 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -343,6 +343,11 @@ static size_t hists__fprintf_nr_sample_events(struct hists *hists, struct report
 	char buf[512];
 	size_t size = sizeof(buf);
 
+	if (symbol_conf.filter_relative) {
+		nr_samples = hists->stats.nr_non_filtered_samples;
+		nr_events = hists->stats.total_non_filtered_period;
+	}
+
 	if (perf_evsel__is_group_event(evsel)) {
 		struct perf_evsel *pos;
 
@@ -350,8 +355,13 @@ static size_t hists__fprintf_nr_sample_events(struct hists *hists, struct report
 		evname = buf;
 
 		for_each_group_member(pos, evsel) {
-			nr_samples += pos->hists.stats.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE];
-			nr_events += pos->hists.stats.total_period;
+			if (symbol_conf.filter_relative) {
+				nr_samples += pos->hists.stats.nr_non_filtered_samples;
+				nr_events += pos->hists.stats.total_non_filtered_period;
+			} else {
+				nr_samples += pos->hists.stats.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE];
+				nr_events += pos->hists.stats.total_period;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -707,6 +717,20 @@ parse_percent_limit(const struct option *opt, const char *str,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int
+parse_percentage(const struct option *opt __maybe_unused, const char *str,
+		 int unset __maybe_unused)
+{
+	if (!strcmp(str, "relative"))
+		symbol_conf.filter_relative = true;
+	else if (!strcmp(str, "absolute"))
+		symbol_conf.filter_relative = false;
+	else
+		return -1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 {
 	struct perf_session *session;
@@ -829,6 +853,8 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "mem-mode", &report.mem_mode, "mem access profile"),
 	OPT_CALLBACK(0, "percent-limit", &report, "percent",
 		     "Don't show entries under that percent", parse_percent_limit),
+	OPT_CALLBACK(0, "percentage", NULL, "relative|absolute",
+		     "how to display percentage of filtered entries", parse_percentage),
 	OPT_END()
 	};
 	struct perf_data_file file = {
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
index 7ec871af3f6f..7ad11477a0f5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
@@ -769,12 +769,15 @@ static unsigned int hist_browser__refresh(struct ui_browser *browser)
 
 	for (nd = browser->top; nd; nd = rb_next(nd)) {
 		struct hist_entry *h = rb_entry(nd, struct hist_entry, rb_node);
-		float percent = h->stat.period * 100.0 /
-					hb->hists->stats.total_period;
+		u64 total = hists__total_period(h->hists);
+		float percent = 0.0;
 
 		if (h->filtered)
 			continue;
 
+		if (total)
+			percent = h->stat.period * 100.0 / total;
+
 		if (percent < hb->min_pcnt)
 			continue;
 
@@ -792,8 +795,11 @@ static struct rb_node *hists__filter_entries(struct rb_node *nd,
 {
 	while (nd != NULL) {
 		struct hist_entry *h = rb_entry(nd, struct hist_entry, rb_node);
-		float percent = h->stat.period * 100.0 /
-					hists->stats.total_period;
+		u64 total = hists__total_period(hists);
+		float percent = 0.0;
+
+		if (total)
+			percent = h->stat.period * 100.0 / total;
 
 		if (percent < min_pcnt)
 			return NULL;
@@ -813,8 +819,11 @@ static struct rb_node *hists__filter_prev_entries(struct rb_node *nd,
 {
 	while (nd != NULL) {
 		struct hist_entry *h = rb_entry(nd, struct hist_entry, rb_node);
-		float percent = h->stat.period * 100.0 /
-					hists->stats.total_period;
+		u64 total = hists__total_period(hists);
+		float percent = 0.0;
+
+		if (total)
+			percent = h->stat.period * 100.0 / total;
 
 		if (!h->filtered && percent >= min_pcnt)
 			return nd;
@@ -1189,6 +1198,11 @@ static int hists__browser_title(struct hists *hists, char *bf, size_t size,
 	char buf[512];
 	size_t buflen = sizeof(buf);
 
+	if (symbol_conf.filter_relative) {
+		nr_samples = hists->stats.nr_non_filtered_samples;
+		nr_events = hists->stats.total_non_filtered_period;
+	}
+
 	if (perf_evsel__is_group_event(evsel)) {
 		struct perf_evsel *pos;
 
@@ -1196,8 +1210,13 @@ static int hists__browser_title(struct hists *hists, char *bf, size_t size,
 		ev_name = buf;
 
 		for_each_group_member(pos, evsel) {
-			nr_samples += pos->hists.stats.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE];
-			nr_events += pos->hists.stats.total_period;
+			if (symbol_conf.filter_relative) {
+				nr_samples += pos->hists.stats.nr_non_filtered_samples;
+				nr_events += pos->hists.stats.total_non_filtered_period;
+			} else {
+				nr_samples += pos->hists.stats.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE];
+				nr_events += pos->hists.stats.total_period;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/gtk/hists.c b/tools/perf/ui/gtk/hists.c
index e395ef9b0ae0..91f10f3f6dd1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/gtk/hists.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/gtk/hists.c
@@ -228,12 +228,15 @@ static void perf_gtk__show_hists(GtkWidget *window, struct hists *hists,
 	for (nd = rb_first(&hists->entries); nd; nd = rb_next(nd)) {
 		struct hist_entry *h = rb_entry(nd, struct hist_entry, rb_node);
 		GtkTreeIter iter;
-		float percent = h->stat.period * 100.0 /
-					hists->stats.total_period;
+		u64 total = hists__total_period(h->hists);
+		float percent = 0.0;
 
 		if (h->filtered)
 			continue;
 
+		if (total)
+			percent = h->stat.period * 100.0 / total;
+
 		if (percent < min_pcnt)
 			continue;
 
@@ -261,12 +264,8 @@ static void perf_gtk__show_hists(GtkWidget *window, struct hists *hists,
 		}
 
 		if (symbol_conf.use_callchain && sort__has_sym) {
-			u64 total;
-
 			if (callchain_param.mode == CHAIN_GRAPH_REL)
 				total = h->stat.period;
-			else
-				total = hists->stats.total_period;
 
 			perf_gtk__add_callchain(&h->sorted_chain, store, &iter,
 						sym_col, total);
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/hist.c b/tools/perf/ui/hist.c
index 0f403b83e9d1..0912805c08f4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/hist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/hist.c
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ int __hpp__fmt(struct perf_hpp *hpp, struct hist_entry *he,
 
 	if (fmt_percent) {
 		double percent = 0.0;
+		u64 total = hists__total_period(hists);
 
-		if (hists->stats.total_period)
-			percent = 100.0 * get_field(he) /
-				  hists->stats.total_period;
+		if (total)
+			percent = 100.0 * get_field(he) / total;
 
 		ret += hpp__call_print_fn(hpp, print_fn, fmt, percent);
 	} else
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ int __hpp__fmt(struct perf_hpp *hpp, struct hist_entry *he,
 
 		list_for_each_entry(pair, &he->pairs.head, pairs.node) {
 			u64 period = get_field(pair);
-			u64 total = pair->hists->stats.total_period;
+			u64 total = hists__total_period(pair->hists);
 
 			if (!total)
 				continue;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.c b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
index 1ed3e2b86f0b..3ebd89a28257 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/hist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
@@ -321,9 +321,11 @@ void hists__inc_nr_entries(struct hists *hists, struct hist_entry *h)
 {
 	if (!h->filtered) {
 		hists__calc_col_len(hists, h);
-		++hists->nr_entries;
-		hists->stats.total_period += h->stat.period;
+		hists->nr_non_filtered_entries++;
+		hists->stats.total_non_filtered_period += h->stat.period;
 	}
+	hists->nr_entries++;
+	hists->stats.total_period += h->stat.period;
 }
 
 static u8 symbol__parent_filter(const struct symbol *parent)
@@ -674,8 +676,9 @@ void hists__output_resort(struct hists *hists)
 	next = rb_first(root);
 	hists->entries = RB_ROOT;
 
-	hists->nr_entries = hists->nr_non_filtered_entries = 0;
-	hists->stats.total_period = hists->stats.total_non_filtered_period = 0;
+	hists->nr_non_filtered_entries = 0;
+	hists->stats.total_period = 0;
+	hists->stats.total_non_filtered_period = 0;
 	hists__reset_col_len(hists);
 
 	while (next) {
@@ -694,16 +697,11 @@ static void hists__remove_entry_filter(struct hists *hists, struct hist_entry *h
 	if (h->filtered)
 		return;
 
-	++hists->nr_entries;
 	++hists->nr_non_filtered_entries;
-	if (h->ms.unfolded) {
-		hists->nr_entries += h->nr_rows;
+	if (h->ms.unfolded)
 		hists->nr_non_filtered_entries += h->nr_rows;
-	}
 	h->row_offset = 0;
-	hists->stats.total_period += h->stat.period;
 	hists->stats.total_non_filtered_period += h->stat.period;
-	hists->stats.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE] += h->stat.nr_events;
 	hists->stats.nr_non_filtered_samples += h->stat.nr_events;
 
 	hists__calc_col_len(hists, h);
@@ -726,9 +724,8 @@ void hists__filter_by_dso(struct hists *hists)
 {
 	struct rb_node *nd;
 
-	hists->nr_entries = hists->stats.total_period = 0;
-	hists->nr_non_filtered_entries = hists->stats.total_non_filtered_period = 0;
-	hists->stats.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE] = 0;
+	hists->nr_non_filtered_entries = 0;
+	hists->stats.total_non_filtered_period = 0;
 	hists->stats.nr_non_filtered_samples = 0;
 	hists__reset_col_len(hists);
 
@@ -761,9 +758,8 @@ void hists__filter_by_thread(struct hists *hists)
 {
 	struct rb_node *nd;
 
-	hists->nr_entries = hists->stats.total_period = 0;
-	hists->nr_non_filtered_entries = hists->stats.total_non_filtered_period = 0;
-	hists->stats.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE] = 0;
+	hists->nr_non_filtered_entries = 0;
+	hists->stats.total_non_filtered_period = 0;
 	hists->stats.nr_non_filtered_samples = 0;
 	hists__reset_col_len(hists);
 
@@ -794,9 +790,8 @@ void hists__filter_by_symbol(struct hists *hists)
 {
 	struct rb_node *nd;
 
-	hists->nr_entries = hists->stats.total_period = 0;
-	hists->nr_non_filtered_entries = hists->stats.total_non_filtered_period = 0;
-	hists->stats.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE] = 0;
+	hists->nr_non_filtered_entries = 0;
+	hists->stats.total_non_filtered_period = 0;
 	hists->stats.nr_non_filtered_samples = 0;
 	hists__reset_col_len(hists);
 
@@ -942,3 +937,9 @@ int hists__link(struct hists *leader, struct hists *other)
 
 	return 0;
 }
+
+u64 hists__total_period(struct hists *hists)
+{
+	return symbol_conf.filter_relative ? hists->stats.total_non_filtered_period :
+		hists->stats.total_period;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.h b/tools/perf/util/hist.h
index 213551469f36..3191496bd3b7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/hist.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.h
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ void hists__collapse_resort(struct hists *hists, struct ui_progress *prog);
 void hists__decay_entries(struct hists *hists, bool zap_user, bool zap_kernel);
 void hists__output_recalc_col_len(struct hists *hists, int max_rows);
 
+u64 hists__total_period(struct hists *hists);
 void hists__inc_nr_entries(struct hists *hists, struct hist_entry *h);
 void hists__inc_nr_events(struct hists *hists, u32 type);
 void events_stats__inc(struct events_stats *stats, u32 type);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index 95e249779931..b2eca6c17a70 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ struct symbol_conf symbol_conf = {
 	.try_vmlinux_path = true,
 	.annotate_src	  = true,
 	.demangle	  = true,
+	.filter_relative  = true,
 	.symfs            = "",
 };
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
index 501e4e722e8e..ae94e006a52d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ struct symbol_conf {
 			annotate_asm_raw,
 			annotate_src,
 			event_group,
-			demangle;
+			demangle,
+			filter_relative;
 	const char	*vmlinux_name,
 			*kallsyms_name,
 			*source_prefix,