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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
parent546fece4eae871f033925ccf0ff2b740725ae915 (diff)
downloadlinux-60f1d5e3bac44b598f67d36062da96c095d2b700.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c2
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"