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Commit 80765597 authored by Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar Steven Rostedt (VMware)
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tracing: Rewrite filter logic to be simpler and faster



Al Viro reviewed the filter logic of ftrace trace events and found it to be
very troubling. It creates a binary tree based on the logic operators and
walks it during tracing. He sent myself and Tom Zanussi a long explanation
(and formal proof) of how to do the string parsing better and end up with a
program array that can be simply iterated to come up with the correct
results.

I took his ideas and his pseudo code and rewrote the filter logic based on
them. In doing so, I was able to remove a lot of code, and have a much more
condensed filter logic in the process. I wrote a very long comment
describing the methadology that Al proposed in my own words. For more info
on how this works, read the comment above predicate_parse().

Suggested-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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