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Steven Rostedt Dec. 19, 2022, 6:31 p.m. UTC 
There's been several times where an event records a function address in
its field and I needed to filter on that address for a specific function
name. It required looking up the function in kallsyms, finding its size,
and doing a compare of "field >= function_start && field < function_end".

But this would change from boot to boot and is unreliable in scripts.
Also, it is useful to have this at boot up, where the addresses will not
be known. For example, on the boot command line:

  trace_trigger="initcall_finish.traceoff if func.function == acpi_init"

To implement this, add a ".function" prefix, that will check that the
field is of size long, and the only operations allowed (so far) are "=="
and "!=".

Changes since v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20221214125209.09d736dd@gandalf.local.home/

 - Fix commit log "initcall_finish.function" to "func.function" (Ross Zwisler)

 - Fixed processing of address (Ross Zwisler)

 - Added selftest (Masami Hiramatsu)

 - Just use "trigger" instead of "strsep(&trigger, "")" (Zheng Yejian)

Steven Rostedt (Google) (2):
      tracing: Add a way to filter function addresses to function names
      tracing/selftests: Add test for event filtering on function name

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 Documentation/trace/events.rst                     | 12 +++
 kernel/trace/trace_events.c                        |  2 +-
 kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c                 | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 .../ftrace/test.d/filter/event-filter-function.tc  | 58 ++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/filter/event-filter-function.tc