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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.txt b/Documentation/trace/events.txt index 41911240c65c..37732a220d33 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/events.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/events.txt @@ -187,9 +187,18 @@ 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 ------------------- |