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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.rst b/Documentation/trace/events.rst index 8ddb9b09451c..45e66a60a816 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/events.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/events.rst @@ -230,6 +230,16 @@ Currently the caret ('^') for an error always appears at the beginning of the filter string; the error message should still be useful though even without more accurate position info. +5.2.1 Filter limitations +------------------------ + +If a filter is placed on a string pointer ``(char *)`` that does not point +to a string on the ring buffer, but instead points to kernel or user space +memory, then, for safety reasons, at most 1024 bytes of the content is +copied onto a temporary buffer to do the compare. If the copy of the memory +faults (the pointer points to memory that should not be accessed), then the +string compare will be treated as not matching. + 5.3 Clearing filters -------------------- |