tracing/filters: improve subsystem filter

Currently a subsystem filter should be applicable to all events
under the subsystem, and if it failed, all the event filters
will be cleared. Those behaviors make subsys filter much less
useful:

  # echo 'vec == 1' > irq/softirq_entry/filter
  # echo 'irq == 5' > irq/filter
  bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
  # cat irq/softirq_entry/filter
  none

I'd expect it set the filter for irq_handler_entry/exit, and
not touch softirq_entry/exit.

The basic idea is, try to see if the filter can be applied
to which events, and then just apply to the those events:

  # echo 'vec == 1' > softirq_entry/filter
  # echo 'irq == 5' > filter
  # cat irq_handler_entry/filter
  irq == 5
  # cat softirq_entry/filter
  vec == 1

Changelog for v2:
- do some cleanups to address Frederic's comments.

Inspired-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A63D485.7030703@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index 94305c7bc11..758b0dbed55 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -750,13 +750,14 @@ struct event_filter {
 	int			n_preds;
 	struct filter_pred	**preds;
 	char			*filter_string;
+	bool			no_reset;
 };
 
 struct event_subsystem {
 	struct list_head	list;
 	const char		*name;
 	struct dentry		*entry;
-	void			*filter;
+	struct event_filter	*filter;
 	int			nr_events;
 };