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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
	Slavomir Kaslev <kaslevs@vmware.com>,
	linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org, ykaradzhov@vmware.com,
	jbacik@fb.com, tstoyanov@vmware.com, slavomir.kaslev@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] trace-cmd: Optimize how pid filters are expressed
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:52:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190417105225.1b032833@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190417142515.GF6118@pauld.bos.csb>

On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:25:15 -0400
Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> wrote:

> > > FILTER write /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_kthread_stop/filter (len 74) value "(common_pid<21420||common_pid>21425)&&(common_pid<21265||common_pid>21418)"
> > > FILTER write /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_kthread_stop_ret/filter (len 74) value "(common_pid<21420||common_pid>21425)&&(common_pid<21265||common_pid>21418)"
> > > ...
> > > FILTER write /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/filter (len 142) value "(common_pid<21420||common_pid>21425)&&(common_pid<21265||common_pid>21418)||(next_pid<21420||next_pid>21425)&&(next_pid<21265||next_pid>21418)"  
> > 
> > It seems crazy that we write "common_pid", instead of "pid" or "cpid", or 
> > something like that.
> > 
> > 
> >   
> 
> I assume those have to match fields in the trace event mechanism, but I don't know a lot 
> about it. 
> 
> "pid" is used in the wakeup event filters:
> 
> FILTER write /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup_new/filter (len 122) value "(common_pid<21420||common_pid>21425)&&(common_pid<21265||common_pid>21418)||(pid<21420||pid>21425)&&(pid<21265||pid>21418)"
> 

Correct, the names have to match the fields listed in the format file.
The "common_*" was added way back in the beginning so that they differ
from the field names in the events.

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-17 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-17 13:09 [PATCH v4 0/2] Optimize pid filters Slavomir Kaslev
2019-04-17 13:09 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] trace-cmd: Optimize how pid filters are expressed Slavomir Kaslev
2019-04-17 13:58   ` Phil Auld
2019-04-17 14:18     ` John Kacur
2019-04-17 14:25       ` Phil Auld
2019-04-17 14:52         ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2019-04-17 14:52     ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-17 14:54     ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-17 13:09 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] trace-cmd: Document record --no-filter option in record's man page Slavomir Kaslev
2019-04-17 14:05   ` Phil Auld
2019-04-17 16:19   ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-17 16:24     ` Steven Rostedt

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