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    perf trace: Use event filters for the event qualifier list · 19867b61
    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
    We use raw_syscalls:sys_{enter,exit} events to show the syscalls, but were
    using a rather lazy/inneficient way to implement our 'strace -e' equivalent:
    filter out after reading the events in the ring buffer.
    
    Deflect more work to the kernel by appending a filter expression for that,
    that, together with the pid list, that is always present, if only to filter the
    tracer itself, reduces pressure on the ring buffer and otherwise use
    infrastructure already in place in the kernel to do early filtering.
    
    If we use it with -v we can see the filter passed to the kernel,
    for instance, for this contrieved case:
    
      # trace -v -e \!open,close,write,poll,recvfrom,select,recvmsg,writev,sendmsg,read,futex,epoll_wait,ioctl,eventfd --filter-pids 2189,2566,1398,2692,4475,4532
    <SNIP>
      (common_pid != 2514 && common_pid != 1398 && common_pid != 2189 && common_pid != 2566 && common_pid != 2692 && common_pid != 4475 && common_pid != 4532) && (id != 3 && id != 232 && id != 284 && id != 202 && id != 16 && id != 2 && id != 7 && id != 0 && id != 45 && id != 47 && id != 23 && id != 46 && id != 1 && id != 20)
         0.011 (0.011 ms): caribou/2295 eventfd2(flags: CLOEXEC|NONBLOCK) = 18
        16.946 (0.019 ms): caribou/2295 eventfd2(flags: CLOEXEC|NONBLOCK) = 18
        38.598 (0.167 ms): chronyd/794 socket(family: INET, type: DGRAM ) = 4
        38.603 (0.002 ms): chronyd/794 fcntl(fd: 4<socket:[239307]>, cmd: GETFD) = 0
        38.605 (0.001 ms): chronyd/794 fcntl(fd: 4<socket:[239307]>, cmd: SETFD, arg: 1) = 0
    ^C
     #
    
    Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
    Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ti2tg18atproqpguc2moinp6@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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