Re: [PATCH 0/3] tracing/filters: Support specifying filter hook toa TRACE_EVENT field

From: Li Zefan
Date: Thu Aug 06 2009 - 21:10:20 EST


>> [PATCH 1/3] tracing/filters: Add filter_type to struct ftrace_event_field
>> [PATCH 2/3] tracing/filters: Add __field_ext() to TRACE_EVENT
>> [PATCH 3/3] tracing/filters: Support filtering for char * strings
>
> I like the first two patches, but would like to see a V2 with the updates
> I've mentioned. The last patch I do not fully understand its purpose.
>

The last one is wanted by Frederic in his bkl trace events patchset:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/1/26

In that patch a ptr_str filter hook is always attached to "char *"
field, which is unsafe.

> I'll wait for V2 to pull it in.
>
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