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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>2016-10-05 20:58:15 +0900
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2016-11-14 16:42:58 -0500
commit60f1d5e3bac44b598f67d36062da96c095d2b700 (patch)
tree87990c058f734d14b446e99772548971138e1192 /kernel/trace/trace.c
parentftrace: Add more checks for FTRACE_FL_DISABLED in processing ip records (diff)
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ftrace: Support full glob matching
Use glob_match() to support flexible glob wildcards (*,?) and character classes ([) for ftrace. Since the full glob matching is slower than the current partial matching routines(*pat, pat*, *pat*), this leaves those routines and just add MATCH_GLOB for complex glob expression. e.g. ---- [root@localhost tracing]# echo 'sched*group' > set_ftrace_filter [root@localhost tracing]# cat set_ftrace_filter sched_free_group sched_change_group sched_create_group sched_online_group sched_destroy_group sched_offline_group [root@localhost tracing]# echo '[Ss]y[Ss]_*' > set_ftrace_filter [root@localhost tracing]# head set_ftrace_filter sys_arch_prctl sys_rt_sigreturn sys_ioperm SyS_iopl sys_modify_ldt SyS_mmap SyS_set_thread_area SyS_get_thread_area SyS_set_tid_address sys_fork ---- Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147566869501.29136.6462645009894738056.stgit@devbox Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 8696ce6bf2f6..d904516dfdab 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4065,7 +4065,7 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
"\n available_filter_functions - list of functions that can be filtered on\n"
" set_ftrace_filter\t- echo function name in here to only trace these\n"
"\t\t\t functions\n"
- "\t accepts: func_full_name, *func_end, func_begin*, *func_middle*\n"
+ "\t accepts: func_full_name or glob-matching-pattern\n"
"\t modules: Can select a group via module\n"
"\t Format: :mod:<module-name>\n"
"\t example: echo :mod:ext3 > set_ftrace_filter\n"