For cases like IPv6 addresses, having a means to supply tracing predicates for fields with more than 8 bytes would be convenient. This series provides a simple way to support this by allowing simple ==, != memory comparison with the predicate supplied when the size of the field exceeds 8 bytes. For example, to trace ::1, the predicate "dst == 0x00000000000000000000000000000001" ..could be used. When investigating this initially, I stumbled upon a kernel crash when specifying a predicate for a non-string field that is not 1, 2, 4, or 8 bytes in size. Patch 1 fixes it. Patch 2 provides the support for > 8 byte fields via a memcmp()-style predicate. Patch 3 adds tests for filter predicates, and patch 4 documents the fact that for > 8 bytes. only == and != are supported. Alan Maguire (2): tracing: predicate matching trigger crashes for > 8-byte arrays tracing: support > 8 byte array filter predicates Oracle Public Cloud User (2): selftests/ftrace: add test coverage for filter predicates tracing: document > 8 byte numeric filtering support Documentation/trace/events.rst | 9 +++ kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++- .../selftests/ftrace/test.d/event/filter.tc | 62 +++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/event/filter.tc -- 2.31.1
