Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Dec 2022 13:31:06 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | [PATCH 0/2] tracing: Add a way to filter function addresses to function names |
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There's been several times where an event records a function address in its field and I needed to filter on that address for a specific function name. It required looking up the function in kallsyms, finding its size, and doing a compare of "field >= function_start && field < function_end".
But this would change from boot to boot and is unreliable in scripts. Also, it is useful to have this at boot up, where the addresses will not be known. For example, on the boot command line:
trace_trigger="initcall_finish.traceoff if func.function == acpi_init"
To implement this, add a ".function" prefix, that will check that the field is of size long, and the only operations allowed (so far) are "==" and "!=".
Changes since v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20221214125209.09d736dd@gandalf.local.home/
- Fix commit log "initcall_finish.function" to "func.function" (Ross Zwisler)
- Fixed processing of address (Ross Zwisler)
- Added selftest (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Just use "trigger" instead of "strsep(&trigger, "")" (Zheng Yejian)
Steven Rostedt (Google) (2): tracing: Add a way to filter function addresses to function names tracing/selftests: Add test for event filtering on function name
---- Documentation/trace/events.rst | 12 +++ kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++- .../ftrace/test.d/filter/event-filter-function.tc | 58 ++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/filter/event-filter-function.tc
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