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-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt13
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.txt b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
index bb24c2a0e..37732a2 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/events.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
@@ -183,13 +183,22 @@ The relational-operators depend on the type of the field being tested:
The operators available for numeric fields are:
-==, !=, <, <=, >, >=
+==, !=, <, <=, >, >=, &
And for string fields they are:
-==, !=
+==, !=, ~
-Currently, only exact string matches are supported.
+The glob (~) only accepts a wild card character (*) at the start and or
+end of the string. For example:
+
+ prev_comm ~ "*sh"
+ prev_comm ~ "sh*"
+ prev_comm ~ "*sh*"
+
+But does not allow for it to be within the string:
+
+ prev_comm ~ "ba*sh" <-- is invalid
5.2 Setting filters
-------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
index bfe8c29..b937c6e 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
@@ -2430,6 +2430,19 @@ The following commands are supported:
echo '!schedule:disable_event:sched:sched_switch' > \
set_ftrace_filter
+- dump
+ When the function is hit, it will dump the contents of the ftrace
+ ring buffer to the console. This is useful if you need to debug
+ something, and want to dump the trace when a certain function
+ is hit. Perhaps its a function that is called before a tripple
+ fault happens and does not allow you to get a regular dump.
+
+- cpudump
+ When the function is hit, it will dump the contents of the ftrace
+ ring buffer for the current CPU to the console. Unlike the "dump"
+ command, it only prints out the contents of the ring buffer for the
+ CPU that executed the function that triggered the dump.
+
trace_pipe
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