libtracecmd: tracecmd_filter_add filters unrelated events
Petr Malat <[email protected]> Tue, 27 May 2025 09:22:01 -0500
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-trace-devel |
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| Message-ID | <CANMuvJnWm0RpUCw+hMeqzGCig8hydUGYBZWKaNM44zGOM8jFqg@mail.gmail.com> |
Hi, when I attach a filter "subsys/event:field==val" using tracecmd_filter_add(), it filters out all other events as well and not just the event, for which the filter is relevant. I want to ask if this is intentional or a bug. I expected the function to mirror filter feature of ftrace, where setting a filter in events/subsys/event/filter has no effect on other events than subsys/event. Per event filtering is done using tracecmd_follow_event(), so the current behavior of tracecmd_filter_add() is redundant to it and prevents creating per event filters without using custom callbacks. If this behavior is not intentional, I can prepare a patch to not filter out events where none of the fillers is applicable to. BR, Petr