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Message-Id: <1227846079-9197-1-git-send-email-walimisdev@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:21:19 +0800
From: walimis <walimisdev@...il.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] ftrace: improve document
Impact: add notice of using wild cards correctly
We know that we can use wild cards to set set_ftrace_filter, but there's
problem when using such as "echo h* > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter".
If there are files named with "h" prefix in current directory, echo "h*"
will echo these files' name to set_ftrace_filter, not "h*".
For example:
$cat /debug/tracing/available_filter_functions |grep ^hr |wc -l
23
$ls
$touch hraa hrdd
$ls
hraa hrdd
$echo hr* > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
$cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
No output in /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter!
If we use '' to enclose wild cards, it works:
$ls
hraa hrdd
$echo "hr*" > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
$cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter |wc -l
23
This problem can lead to unexpected result if current directory has a
lot of files.
Signed-off-by: walimis <walimisdev@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
---
Documentation/ftrace.txt | 8 ++++++--
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/ftrace.txt
index de05042..803b131 100644
--- a/Documentation/ftrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ftrace.txt
@@ -1251,7 +1251,11 @@ These are the only wild cards which are supported.
<match>*<match> will not work.
- # echo hrtimer_* > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
+Note: It is better to use quotes to enclose the wild cards, otherwise
+ the shell may expand the parameters into names of files in the local
+ directory.
+
+ # echo 'hrtimer_*' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Produces:
@@ -1306,7 +1310,7 @@ Again, now we want to append.
# echo sys_nanosleep > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
# cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
sys_nanosleep
- # echo hrtimer_* >> /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
+ # echo 'hrtimer_*' >> /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
# cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
hrtimer_run_queues
hrtimer_run_pending
--
1.6.0.3
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