linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing/filters: Support filtering for char * strings

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0908062328140.2840@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:31:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing/filters: Support filtering for char *
 strings


On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Li Zefan wrote:

> Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Ah, so the answer I'm looking for is:
> > 
> > The filtering will not dereference "char *" unless the developer 
> > explicitly sets FILTER_PTR_STR in __field_ext.
> > 
> > Is this above statement correct?
> > 
> 
> Exactly. Sorry that I didn't explain it clearly in the
> first place. :)

No problem. It is quite often that things so blatantly obvious to a 
developer is totally foreign for the observer, that the simple explanation 
is commonly overlooked.

I'll pull in your patches, with the -1 update, as well as adding my 
above statement to this patch's change log.

I'll queue it for 32.

Thanks!

-- Steve

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