[RFC PATCH v2 09/20] tracing/filters: Document cpumask filtering

Valentin Schneider
2023-07-20T16:34:28Z

Cpumask, scalar and CPU fields can now be filtered by a user-provided
cpumask, document the syntax.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
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Documentation/trace/events.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.rst b/Documentation/trace/events.rst
index f5fcb8e1218f6..34108d5a55b41 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/events.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events.rst
@@ -219,6 +219,20 @@ the function "security_prepare_creds" and less than the end of that function.
The ".function" postfix can only be attached to values of size long, and can only
be compared with "==" or "!=".

+Cpumask fields or scalar fields that encode a CPU number can be filtered using
+a user-provided cpumask in cpulist format. The format is as follows::
+
+ CPUS{$cpulist}
+
+Operators available to cpumask filtering are:
+
+& (intersection), ==, !=
+
+For example, this will filter events that have their .target_cpu field present
+in the given cpumask::
+
+ target_cpu & CPUS{17-42}
+
5.2 Setting filters
-------------------

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2.31.1