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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-trace.c28
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
index cb3371eb597d..4754f11a862b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ OPTIONS
-e::
--expr::
List of events to show, currently only syscall names.
+ Prefixing with ! shows all syscalls but the ones specified. You may
+ need to escape it.
-o::
--output=::
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 9891d8cdb73d..6ab7a7a5e66e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -114,8 +114,9 @@ struct trace {
struct machine host;
u64 base_time;
FILE *output;
- struct strlist *ev_qualifier;
unsigned long nr_events;
+ struct strlist *ev_qualifier;
+ bool not_ev_qualifier;
bool sched;
bool multiple_threads;
double duration_filter;
@@ -234,13 +235,17 @@ static int trace__read_syscall_info(struct trace *trace, int id)
sc = trace->syscalls.table + id;
sc->name = name;
- if (trace->ev_qualifier && !strlist__find(trace->ev_qualifier, name)) {
- sc->filtered = true;
- /*
- * No need to do read tracepoint information since this will be
- * filtered out.
- */
- return 0;
+ if (trace->ev_qualifier) {
+ bool in = strlist__find(trace->ev_qualifier, name) != NULL;
+
+ if (!(in ^ trace->not_ev_qualifier)) {
+ sc->filtered = true;
+ /*
+ * No need to do read tracepoint information since this will be
+ * filtered out.
+ */
+ return 0;
+ }
}
sc->fmt = syscall_fmt__find(sc->name);
@@ -725,7 +730,12 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
}
if (ev_qualifier_str != NULL) {
- trace.ev_qualifier = strlist__new(true, ev_qualifier_str);
+ const char *s = ev_qualifier_str;
+
+ trace.not_ev_qualifier = *s == '!';
+ if (trace.not_ev_qualifier)
+ ++s;
+ trace.ev_qualifier = strlist__new(true, s);
if (trace.ev_qualifier == NULL) {
fputs("Not enough memory to parse event qualifier",
trace.output);