tracing/filters: Document cpumask filtering

Cpumask, scalar and CPU fields can now be filtered by a user-provided
cpumask, document the syntax.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230707172155.70873-10-vschneid@redhat.com
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Leonardo Bras <leobras@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.rst b/Documentation/trace/events.rst
index f5fcb8e..34108d5 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/trace/events.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events.rst
@@ -219,6 +219,20 @@ the function "security_prepare_creds" and less than the end of that function.
 The ".function" postfix can only be attached to values of size long, and can only
 be compared with "==" or "!=".
 
+Cpumask fields or scalar fields that encode a CPU number can be filtered using
+a user-provided cpumask in cpulist format. The format is as follows::
+
+  CPUS{$cpulist}
+
+Operators available to cpumask filtering are:
+
+& (intersection), ==, !=
+
+For example, this will filter events that have their .target_cpu field present
+in the given cpumask::
+
+  target_cpu & CPUS{17-42}
+
 5.2 Setting filters
 -------------------