On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ted noticed that he could not filter on an event for a bit being cleared.
> That's because the filtering logic only tests event fields with a limited
> number of comparisons which, for bit logic, only include "&", which can
> test if a bit is set, but there's no good way to see if a bit is clear.
>
> This adds a way to do: !(field & 2048)
>
> Which returns true if the bit is not set, and false otherwise.
>
> Note, currently !(field1 == 10 && field2 == 15) is not supported.
> That is, the 'not' only works for direct comparisons, not for the
> AND and OR logic.
>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
>
> Suggested-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

looks good to me.
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
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