From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755430Ab2BUOsW (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:48:22 -0500 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:31815 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752839Ab2BUOsV (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:48:21 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=HeuWv148 c=1 sm=0 a=ZycB6UtQUfgMyuk2+PxD7w==:17 a=5SG0PmZfjMsA:10 a=Q9fys5e9bTEA:10 a=3ODyh8mAtCyeJL9BtQsA:9 a=PUjeQqilurYA:10 a=ZycB6UtQUfgMyuk2+PxD7w==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 74.67.80.29 Message-ID: <1329835698.25686.60.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Subject: Re: RAS trace event proto From: Steven Rostedt To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Ingo Molnar , Tony Luck , edac-devel , LKML Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:48:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20120221141231.GA15515@aftab> References: <20120220145920.GB5728@aftab> <4F438CE9.7080807@redhat.com> <20120221141231.GA15515@aftab> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 15:12 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Also, folding everything into just one string prevents (or make hard) the usage of > > the perf filters, for example, to filter only the errors at the memory controller 1. > > Huh, because you can't grep through the trace anymore...? > I believe Mauro is talking about the tracing filters used by both perf and ftrace that lets you ignore trace events when the contents of the event does not match the filter. This is filtering out events before they go to the buffer. -- Steve