linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Two event pid filtering bug fixes

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Date:   Sat, 27 Nov 2021 12:12:55 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>,
        Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Two event pid filtering bug fixes

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 10:28 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>
> Two fixes to event pid filtering:
>
> - Have created events reflect the current state of pid filtering
>
> - Test pid filtering on discard test of recorded logic.
>   (Also clean up the if statement to be cleaner).

I could not parse either of those statements. The second one in
particular is just a jumble of random words in a random order.

I tried to make it make sense by looking at the commits themselves,
but who knows. Maybe I made it worse by turning it from
incomprehensible to actively wrong.

Please make those explanations more clear in the future, ok?

               Linus