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2011-01-28perf tools: Add strfilter for general purpose string filterMasami Hiramatsu
Add strfilter for general purpose string filter. Every filter rules are descrived by glob matching pattern and '!' prefix which means Logical NOT. A strfilter consists of those filter rules connected with '&' and '|'. A set of rules can be folded by using '(' and ')'. It also accepts spaces around rules and those operators. Format: <rule> ::= <glob-exp> | "!" <rule> | <rule> <op> <rule> | "(" <rule> ")" <op> ::= "&" | "|" e.g.: "(add* | del*) & *timer" filter rules pass strings which start with add or del and end with timer. This will be used by perf probe --filter. Changes in V2: - Fix to check result of strdup() and strfilter__alloc(). - Encapsulate and simplify interfaces as like regex(3). Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20110120141530.25915.12673.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>