Re: [PATCH RFC] tracing: Call triggers only if event passes filter checks

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:01:13 -0700
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, trace event triggers are called regardless of if the event
> filter checks pass or fail. Thus if one were to enable event triggers
> and filters at the same time, then the triggers will always be called
> even if the filter checks didn't pass.
> 
> This is a problem for a usecase I was experimenting with: measuring the
> time preemption is disabled using synthetic events and dump the stack
> using the stacktrace trigger if the total preempt off time was greater
> than a threshold. Following are the commands for the same:
> 
> Create synthetic event:
> 
> echo 'preemptdisable u64 lat' >> \
> 	      /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
> 
> echo 'hist:keys=cpu:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs:scpu=cpu' >> \
> 	      /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/preemptirq/preempt_disable/trigger
> 
> echo 'hist:keys=cpu:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0:\
> onmatch(preemptirq.preempt_disable).preemptdisable($wakeup_lat)' >> \
> 	        /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/preemptirq/preempt_enable/trigger
> 
> Enable synthetic event:
> 
> echo stacktrace > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/preemptdisable/trigger
> echo 'lat > 400' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/preemptdisable/filter
> echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/preemptdisable/enable
> 
> With the patch, the stacktrace is triggered only if the filter checks
> passed. It also seems sensible to call triggers only if filter checks
> pass so lets do that.

No, it worked as expected. The filter is only to be used it the event
should be recorded or not. What you wanted to do is:

 echo 'stacktrace if lat > 400' > events/synthetic/preemptdisable/trigger

-- Steve