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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/5] tracing/filters: Provide basic regex support
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:39:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A76782E.4030803@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249111408-8657-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>

Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> This patch provides basic support for regular expressions in filters.
> The common filter file doesn't support any regex but a new
> filter_regex file is created for each subsystem/event.
> 
> It supports the following types of regexp:
> 
> - *match_beginning
> - *match_middle*
> - match_end*
> - !don't match
> 

I don't see why adding "filter_regex" is necessary, why not just make
"filter" support regex?

> Every string is now handled as a regexp in the filter framework, which
> helps to factorize the code for handling both simple strings and
> regexp comparisons.
> 
> (The regexp code has been savagely cherry picked from ftrace.c
> writtent by Steve. If this patch makes its way, I'll be happy
> to change ftrace to use the new filter helpers)

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-03  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-01  7:23 [RFC][GIT PULL] bkl ftrace events + filter regex support Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-01  7:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/5] tracing/bkl: Add bkl ftrace events Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-01  7:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/5] tracing/event: Cleanup the useless dentry variable Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-01  7:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/5] tracing/filters: Cleanup useless headers Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-03  5:19   ` Li Zefan
2009-08-05 22:30     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-01  7:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/5] tracing/filters: Provide basic regex support Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-03  5:39   ` Li Zefan [this message]
2009-08-05 22:47     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-06  1:14       ` Li Zefan
2009-08-06  1:49         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-07  4:14           ` Tom Zanussi
2009-08-07  5:19             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-07  8:11             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-01  7:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/5] tracing/filters: Provide support for char * pointers Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-03  6:58   ` Li Zefan
2009-08-05 23:02     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-06  1:35       ` Li Zefan
2009-08-06  1:59         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-06  3:50           ` Li Zefan

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