[RFC tracing 4/4] tracing: document > 8 byte numeric filtering support

Alan Maguire posted 4 patches 3 years, 8 months ago
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[RFC tracing 4/4] tracing: document > 8 byte numeric filtering support
Posted by Alan Maguire 3 years, 8 months ago
For values > 8 bytes in size, only == and != filter predicates are
supported; document this.

Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
---
 Documentation/trace/events.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.rst b/Documentation/trace/events.rst
index c47f381d0c00..318dba2fe3ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/events.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events.rst
@@ -186,6 +186,15 @@ The operators available for numeric fields are:
 
 ==, !=, <, <=, >, >=, &
 
+For numeric fields larger than 8 bytes, only
+
+==, !=
+
+...are allowed, and values for comparison must match field size exactly.
+For example, to match the "::1" IPv6 address:
+
+"dst == 0x00000000000000000000000000000001"
+
 And for string fields they are:
 
 ==, !=, ~
-- 
2.31.1