From patchwork Fri Apr 12 13:38:07 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Tzvetomir Stoyanov X-Patchwork-Id: 10898369 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFD11874 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7316D28EC6 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 717D328EC3; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:38:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDFB928E11 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727039AbfDLNii (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:38:38 -0400 Received: from mail-wm1-f65.google.com ([209.85.128.65]:55497 "EHLO mail-wm1-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727032AbfDLNii (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:38:38 -0400 Received: by mail-wm1-f65.google.com with SMTP id o25so11275865wmf.5 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 06:38:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hvSaUKiMrEKZHSsIz9xkKhvhxLIm2GB1TGjnPbucNFo=; b=oUmockxGz/4iy2Pi+meZxSxD7OalHulQol6Jo44FVlD5nPWvRWL/mxLI7XE14uKvGg p/cJ3MRgUWIqc7yHtmd7waHZMBC6T5Nfy/ZOR74arMTNwlpfwvqcGQlLOj/rCkQcxm+L uV8wuljj90AFC8Hf39DfdQnKeMC+2+tUstwHzs1uD725Qqt95vfx9NsKyjhJh+ase6xa myk80f5rSWPUeQRi1pT2bhl3C9Bj5PILh5EbP2dq0SvodjSRtiol9jpjKecRbghHS2B6 Qq2bgN0rn9J20y8pURcDVC9A0jEfWGReQnYq8IXes46fhq5uY24Z7aSAZ/ahSFbXVRCI 83jg== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUWIo9X5eIXye91FIZDA2fg2XL8YNLm8GBA6QobjZUcy+gUJxNy 2b5WYITbz9EXoaPmpFcux7skaYP/ X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxKfzi4gciNBtMzokOvWk0JFkOMuVI7XVtuSzOtqG/prlXxoUIZXMSFLDb/jhTL8zRn5+x1hA== X-Received: by 2002:a1c:9991:: with SMTP id b139mr10652514wme.53.1555076317028; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 06:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oberon.eng.vmware.com ([146.247.46.5]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x205sm11594682wmg.9.2019.04.12.06.38.36 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Fri, 12 Apr 2019 06:38:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Tzvetomir Stoyanov To: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v5 26/30] tools/lib/traceevent: Man page for tep_parse_header_page() Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:38:07 +0300 Message-Id: <20190412133811.15878-27-tstoyanov@vmware.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20190412133811.15878-1-tstoyanov@vmware.com> References: <20190412133811.15878-1-tstoyanov@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-trace-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Create man page for tep_parse_header_page() libtraceevent API. Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov --- .../libtraceevent-parse_head.txt | 82 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-parse_head.txt diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-parse_head.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-parse_head.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c90f16c7d8e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-parse_head.txt @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +libtraceevent(3) +================ + +NAME +---- +tep_parse_header_page - Parses the data stored in the header page. + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +-- +*#include * + +int *tep_parse_header_page*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, char pass:[*]_buf_, unsigned long _size_, int _long_size_); +-- + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +The _tep_parse_header_page()_ function parses the header page data from _buf_, +and initializes the _tep_, trace event parser context, with it. The buffer +_buf_ is with _size_, and is supposed to be copied from +tracefs/events/header_page. + +Some old kernels do not have header page info, in this case the +_tep_parse_header_page()_ function can be called with _size_ equal to 0. The +_tep_ context is initialized with default values. The _long_size_ can be used in +this use case, to set the size of a long integer to be used. + +RETURN VALUE +------------ +The _tep_parse_header_page()_ function returns 0 in case of success, or -1 +in case of an error. + +EXAMPLE +------- +[source,c] +-- +#include +... +struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc(); +... +char *buf; +int size; +buf = read_file("/sys/kernel/tracing/events/header_page", &size); +if (tep_parse_header_page(tep, buf, size, sizeof(unsigned long)) != 0) { + /* Failed to parse the header page */ +} +... +-- + +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* , author of *libtraceevent*. +*Tzvetomir Stoyanov* , author of this man page. +-- +REPORTING BUGS +-------------- +Report bugs to + +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