Re: [PATCH 0/4] tracing: event filtering v2

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is version 2 of my patchset adding filtering to the 
> event-tracing infrastructure.
> 
> Changes from the previous version:
> 
> - added common_ prefix to the 5 common event fields
> - ring_buffer_event_discard() fixes from Steven Rostedt
> - changed 'and' and 'or' for compound filters to '&&' and '||'
> - fixed a bug in the matching logic 
> 
> Everything seems to work ok for me, but I haven't yet gotten 
> around to changing the awkward UI.  I plan to fix that as soon as 
> I can i.e. allow complete compound expressions to be specified all 
> at once, add <, >, <=, >= and parens, etc.  Until then, it should 
> hopefully be usable for basic filtering.

Thanks Tom - Frederic and me had a good look and i picked them up 
into tip:tracing/filters for now and lets see how they hold up in 
testing. There was one boundary-condition bug Frederic noticed, i 
fixed that.

The subsystem level filters are a nice touch. We still have to 
complete and organize events into a comprehensive, Linux-wide set of 
tracepoints, so there will be some churn in this area.

	Ingo