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authorTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>2009-04-28 04:04:59 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-29 08:06:11 -0400
commit8b3725621074040d380664964ffbc40610aef8c6 (patch)
tree3a78292a08cc9c87653be2e42d084a7d7f5989bf /include
parenta118e4d1402f1349fe3d953493e4168a300a752d (diff)
tracing/filters: a better event parser
Replace the current event parser hack with a better one. Filters are no longer specified predicate by predicate, but all at once and can use parens and any of the following operators: numeric fields: ==, !=, <, <=, >, >= string fields: ==, != predicates can be combined with the logical operators: &&, || examples: "common_preempt_count > 4" > filter "((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || sig == 17) && comm != bash" > filter If there was an error, the erroneous string along with an error message can be seen by looking at the filter e.g.: ((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || dsig == 17) && comm != bash ^ parse_error: Field not found Currently the caret for an error always appears at the beginning of the filter; a real position should be used, but the error message should be useful even without it. To clear a filter, '0' can be written to the filter file. Filters can also be set or cleared for a complete subsystem by writing the same filter as would be written to an individual event to the filter file at the root of the subsytem. Note however, that if any event in the subsystem lacks a field specified in the filter being set, the set will fail and all filters in the subsytem are automatically cleared. This change from the previous version was made because using only the fields that happen to exist for a given event would most likely result in a meaningless filter. Because the logical operators are now implemented as predicates, the maximum number of predicates in a filter was increased from 8 to 16. [ Impact: add new, extended trace-filter implementation ] Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1240905899.6416.121.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ftrace_event.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
index e61a7403f3d0..5fff40c9ff59 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ struct ftrace_event_call {
112#endif 112#endif
113}; 113};
114 114
115#define MAX_FILTER_PRED 8 115#define MAX_FILTER_PRED 32
116#define MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL 128 116#define MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL 128
117 117
118extern int init_preds(struct ftrace_event_call *call); 118extern int init_preds(struct ftrace_event_call *call);