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2011-01-28perf tools: Add strfilter for general purpose string filterMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+48
Add strfilter for general purpose string filter. Every filter rules are descrived by glob matching pattern and '!' prefix which means Logical NOT. A strfilter consists of those filter rules connected with '&' and '|'. A set of rules can be folded by using '(' and ')'. It also accepts spaces around rules and those operators. Format: <rule> ::= <glob-exp> | "!" <rule> | <rule> <op> <rule> | "(" <rule> ")" <op> ::= "&" | "|" e.g.: "(add* | del*) & *timer" filter rules pass strings which start with add or del and end with timer. This will be used by perf probe --filter. Changes in V2: - Fix to check result of strdup() and strfilter__alloc(). - Encapsulate and simplify interfaces as like regex(3). Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20110120141530.25915.12673.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>