[v5,16/30] tools/lib/traceevent: Man page for list events APIs

Commit Message

Tzvetomir Stoyanov April 12, 2019, 1:37 p.m. UTC

Create man page for libtraceevent APIs:
  tep_list_events()
  tep_list_events_copy()

Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <[e-mail]>
---
 .../libtraceevent-event_list.txt              | 121 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 121 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-event_list.txt

Comments

Steven Rostedt April 30, 2019, 10:11 p.m. UTC | #1

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:37:57 +0300
Tzvetomir Stoyanov <[e-mail]> wrote:

> +
> +The _tep_list_events_copy()_ is a thread safe version of _tep_list_events()_.
> +It has the same behavior, but the returned array is allocated internally and
> +must be freed by the caller.
> +

Probably should specify that the array should be freed but not the
contents of the array (See EXAMPLE below).

That being your example ;-)

-- Steve

Patch

diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-event_list.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-event_list.txt
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+libtraceevent(3)
+================
+
+NAME
+----
+tep_list_events, tep_list_events_copy -
+Get list of events, sorted by given criteria.
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+--
+*#include <event-parse.h>*
+
+enum *tep_event_sort_type* {
+	_TEP_EVENT_SORT_ID_,
+	_TEP_EVENT_SORT_NAME_,
+	_TEP_EVENT_SORT_SYSTEM_,
+};
+
+struct tep_event pass:[*]pass:[*]*tep_list_events*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, enum tep_event_sort_type _sort_type_);
+struct tep_event pass:[*]pass:[*]*tep_list_events_copy*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, enum tep_event_sort_type _sort_type_);
+--
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+The _tep_list_events()_ function returns an array of pointers to the events,
+sorted by the _sort_type_ criteria. The last element of the array is NULL.
+The returned memory must not be freed, it is managed by the library.
+The function is not thread safe. The _tep_ argument is trace event parser
+context. The _sort_type_ argument is the required sort criteria:
+[verse]
+--
+	_TEP_EVENT_SORT_ID_	- sort by the event ID.
+	_TEP_EVENT_SORT_NAME_	- sort by the event (name, system, id) triplet.
+	_TEP_EVENT_SORT_SYSTEM_	- sort by the event (system, name, id) triplet.
+--
+
+The _tep_list_events_copy()_ is a thread safe version of _tep_list_events()_.
+It has the same behavior, but the returned array is allocated internally and
+must be freed by the caller.
+
+RETURN VALUE
+------------
+The _tep_list_events()_ function returns an array of pointers to events.
+In case of an error, NULL is returned. The returned array must not be freed,
+it is managed by the library.
+
+The _tep_list_events_copy()_ function returns an array of pointers to events.
+In case of an error, NULL is returned. The returned array must be freed by
+the caller.
+
+EXAMPLE
+-------
+[source,c]
+--
+#include <event-parse.h>
+...
+struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc();
+...
+int i;
+struct tep_event_format **events;
+
+i=0;
+events = tep_list_events(tep, TEP_EVENT_SORT_ID);
+if (events == NULL) {
+	/* Failed to get the events, sorted by ID */
+} else {
+	while(events[i]) {
+		/* walk through the list of the events, sorted by ID */
+		i++;
+	}
+}
+
+i=0;
+events = tep_list_events_copy(tep, TEP_EVENT_SORT_NAME);
+if (events == NULL) {
+	/* Failed to get the events, sorted by name */
+} else {
+	while(events[i]) {
+		/* walk through the list of the events, sorted by name */
+		i++;
+	}
+	free(events);
+}
+
+...
+--
+
+FILES
+-----
+[verse]
+--
+*event-parse.h*
+	Header file to include in order to have access to the library APIs.
+*-ltraceevent*
+	Linker switch to add when building a program that uses the library.
+--
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+_libtraceevent(3)_, _trace-cmd(1)_
+
+AUTHOR
+------
+[verse]
+--
+*Steven Rostedt* <[e-mail]>, author of *libtraceevent*.
+*Tzvetomir Stoyanov* <[e-mail]>, author of this man page.
+--
+REPORTING BUGS
+--------------
+Report bugs to  <[e-mail]>
+
+LICENSE
+-------
+libtraceevent is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1
+
+RESOURCES
+---------
+https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git