[PATCH v3 5/6] rtla: Unconditionally clean any pre-existing filters for user-provided events

From: Valentin Schneider

Date: Wed Jul 15 2026 - 12:24:55 EST


A later commit will apply a filter to events recorded to the trace
output. To prevent any user confusion, remove pre-existing filters when
enabling an event provided via the '-e' command line argument.

Suggested-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.c b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.c
index e407447773d04..f67f02cc92cdd 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.c
@@ -473,6 +473,10 @@ static int trace_event_enable_filter(struct trace_instance *instance,
char filter[MAX_PATH];
int retval;

+ /* Unconditionally clean any pre-existing filters */
+ tracefs_event_file_write(instance->inst, tevent->system,
+ tevent->event, "filter", "0");
+
if (!tevent->filter)
return 0;

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2.55.0