From patchwork Fri May 3 09:11:17 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Tzvetomir Stoyanov X-Patchwork-Id: 10928107 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 681A61395 for ; Fri, 3 May 2019 09:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572E6284AF for ; Fri, 3 May 2019 09:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 4B9E2284C4; Fri, 3 May 2019 09:11:43 +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 D943C284B3 for ; Fri, 3 May 2019 09:11:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727060AbfECJLm (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 May 2019 05:11:42 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-f67.google.com ([209.85.221.67]:42834 "EHLO mail-wr1-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726041AbfECJLm (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 May 2019 05:11:42 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-f67.google.com with SMTP id l2so6873518wrb.9 for ; Fri, 03 May 2019 02:11:41 -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=kkpbf+geX3ewdNJo2yeUALYkMAW1iasiHsJAX5jsBZ6FfqrI38RScxftf8VZmScCAQ 1TJYKSTdlC3U3amhicDIkpUer3xfO298R7pPvtpYkEHAdLpmtRRDUOHN6nRlFA4s1Yj8 wzXaMZK1+Nz52K7p4XZGkZ3v83uAbdDi2SEcPzTFF5DKoacOxgJ5DtyJO1LWT5t/d4Hz KAfIitd4XBSx430ZLjtG5o3T6RrV87O8LEhYivv8W/TgS0oHWX1mfRlg/wwXdNvJ76XW vLW7Z2Bh2cUBkxM0LjdmKLh3yyJEB2I+oMy6GaB5UqLlNmF8OStuF2qv66NxF2U5ul9u SzfQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAXXF0SHopSieU+K8L686xLtrW8CMGq7FsYc0Ko7HZ2uNjk6kZWM 2mknGldYhsXwpqHWQfeXYaAowdzf X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxV9UQ4k4IZfRgMmHFmlVdvONVuudFGl6x2G9PrOcvMQO6VKzyQwyLS3zZV3fbeJxO5kqpQ/w== X-Received: by 2002:adf:ef8c:: with SMTP id d12mr2757287wro.320.1556874700964; Fri, 03 May 2019 02:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oberon.eng.vmware.com ([146.247.46.5]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b11sm2398596wmh.29.2019.05.03.02.11.40 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Fri, 03 May 2019 02:11:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Tzvetomir Stoyanov To: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v6 24/26] tools/lib/traceevent: Man page for tep_parse_header_page() Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 12:11:17 +0300 Message-Id: <20190503091119.23399-25-tstoyanov@vmware.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20190503091119.23399-1-tstoyanov@vmware.com> References: <20190503091119.23399-1-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