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

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Sun Mar 22 2009 - 19:06:34 EST


On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 03:30:26AM -0500, Tom Zanussi 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
>


Very nice work!

My events/1 task is pid 4, and swapper (idle) is 0,

cd /debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch
echo prev_pid == 4 > filter
echo "&& next_pid == 0" > filter
echo 1 > enable


cat /debug/tracing/trace

# tracer: nop
#
# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | | |
<...>-4 [000] 1136.993069: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
<...>-4 [000] 1136.993081: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
<...>-4 [000] 1137.218492: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
<...>-4 [000] 1137.283787: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
<...>-4 [000] 1137.458733: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
<...>-4 [000] 1137.560932: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
<...>-4 [000] 1137.560941: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
<...>-4 [000] 1137.741107: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
<...>-4 [000] 1138.159083: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
<...>-4 [000] 1138.338673: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
<...>-4 [000] 1138.338681: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
<...>-4 [000] 1138.517769: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
<...>-4 [000] 1138.517833: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
<...>-4 [000] 1138.517845: sched_switch: task events/0:4 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
[...]


:-)

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