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[PATCH RFC 7/7] tracing: Parse filter from event string

From: Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-13 14:07:33
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: the rest, tracing · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu

Make it possible to specify a trace event filter from the
kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <redacted>

---
For the non-RFC patch this should probably be limited to only apply to
the cmdline path.
---
 kernel/trace/trace.h             |  3 ++-
 kernel/trace/trace_events.c      | 13 +++++++++----
 kernel/trace/trace_events_test.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index 6bf4f031efa8..9102bf0a45a9 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -2507,5 +2507,6 @@ static inline int rv_init_interface(void)
 #endif /* _LINUX_KERNEL_TRACE_H */
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KUNIT)
-void ftrace_parse_event_string(char *buf, char **match, char **sub, char **event, char **mod);
+void ftrace_parse_event_string(char *buf, char **match, char **sub, char **event, char **mod,
+			       char **filter);
 #endif
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index c24929d003dd..d4c46b24c382 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -1426,10 +1426,12 @@ static int __ftrace_set_clr_event(struct trace_array *tr, const char *match,
 }
 
 VISIBLE_IF_KUNIT void
-ftrace_parse_event_string(char *buf, char **match, char **sub, char **event, char **mod)
+ftrace_parse_event_string(char *buf, char **match, char **sub, char **event, char **mod,
+			  char **filter)
 {
 	*event = NULL;
 	*sub = NULL;
+	*filter = NULL;
 
 	/* Modules events can be appended with :mod:<module> */
 	*mod = strstr(buf, ":mod:");
@@ -1453,6 +1455,9 @@ ftrace_parse_event_string(char *buf, char **match, char **sub, char **event, cha
 
 	*match = strsep(&buf, ":");
 	if (buf) {
+		*filter = buf;
+		strsep(filter, ":");
+
 		*sub = *match;
 		*event = buf;
 		*match = NULL;
@@ -1471,7 +1476,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT(ftrace_parse_event_string);
 
 int ftrace_set_clr_event(struct trace_array *tr, const char *_buf, int set)
 {
-	char *event, *sub, *match, *mod;
+	char *event, *sub, *match, *mod, *filter;
 
 	if (!tr)
 		return -ENOENT;
@@ -1480,9 +1485,9 @@ int ftrace_set_clr_event(struct trace_array *tr, const char *_buf, int set)
 	if (!buf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	ftrace_parse_event_string(buf, &match, &sub, &event, &mod);
+	ftrace_parse_event_string(buf, &match, &sub, &event, &mod, &filter);
 
-	return __ftrace_set_clr_event(tr, match, sub, event, set, mod, NULL);
+	return __ftrace_set_clr_event(tr, match, sub, event, set, mod, filter);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_test.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_test.c
index e090a699b8d5..fd54eb03b58f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_test.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_test.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 struct parse_event_test_case {
 	const char *input;
 
-	const char *match, *sub, *event, *mod;
+	const char *match, *sub, *event, *mod, *filter;
 };
 
 static const struct parse_event_test_case parse_event_test_cases[] = {
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ static const struct parse_event_test_case parse_event_test_cases[] = {
 		.sub	= "sub",
 		.event	= "event",
 	},
+	{
+		"sub:event:filter",
+		.sub	= "sub",
+		.event	= "event",
+		.filter	= "filter",
+	},
 	{
 		"match",
 		.match	= "match",
@@ -51,6 +57,13 @@ static const struct parse_event_test_case parse_event_test_cases[] = {
 		.event	= "event",
 		.mod	= "module",
 	},
+	{
+		"sub:event:filter:mod:module",
+		.sub	= "sub",
+		.event	= "event",
+		.mod	= "module",
+		.filter	= "filter",
+	},
 };
 
 static void parse_event_test_desc(const struct parse_event_test_case *params, char *desc)
@@ -71,18 +84,19 @@ KUNIT_ARRAY_PARAM(parse_event, parse_event_test_cases, parse_event_test_desc);
 static void parse_event(struct kunit *test)
 {
 	const struct parse_event_test_case *params = test->param_value;
-	char *input, *match, *sub, *event, *mod;
+	char *input, *match, *sub, *event, *mod, *filter;
 
 	input = kunit_kstrdup(test, params->input, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!input)
 		kunit_skip(test, "ENOMEM");
 
-	ftrace_parse_event_string(input, &match, &sub, &event, &mod);
+	ftrace_parse_event_string(input, &match, &sub, &event, &mod, &filter);
 
 	EXPECT_NULL_OR_STR_EQ(test, match, params->match);
 	EXPECT_NULL_OR_STR_EQ(test, sub, params->sub);
 	EXPECT_NULL_OR_STR_EQ(test, event, params->event);
 	EXPECT_NULL_OR_STR_EQ(test, mod, params->mod);
+	EXPECT_NULL_OR_STR_EQ(test, filter, params->filter);
 }
 
 static struct kunit_case trace_events_test_cases[] = {
-- 
2.55.0
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