From patchwork Fri May 10 19:56:11 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Steven Rostedt X-Patchwork-Id: 10939503 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 1CDCB14DB for ; Fri, 10 May 2019 20:03:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE3D28C9B for ; Fri, 10 May 2019 20:03:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 0185C28CCD; Fri, 10 May 2019 20:03:04 +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 8552128C9D for ; Fri, 10 May 2019 20:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727866AbfEJUBJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 May 2019 16:01:09 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:54922 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727679AbfEJUBI (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 May 2019 16:01:08 -0400 Received: from gandalf.local.home (cpe-66-24-58-225.stny.res.rr.com [66.24.58.225]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D065521841; Fri, 10 May 2019 20:01:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rostedt by gandalf.local.home with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hPBha-0006fv-MT; Fri, 10 May 2019 16:01:06 -0400 Message-Id: <20190510200106.583928896@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 15:56:11 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ingo Molnar , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Andrew Morton , Tzvetomir Stoyanov Subject: [PATCH 05/27] tools/lib/traceevent: Man page for header_page APIs References: <20190510195606.537643615@goodmis.org> 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 From: Tzvetomir Stoyanov Create a man page for libtraceevent APIs: tep_get_header_page_size(), tep_get_header_timestamp_size(), tep_is_old_format() Link: http://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20190503091119.23399-5-tstoyanov@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- .../libtraceevent-header_page.txt | 102 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 102 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-header_page.txt diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-header_page.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-header_page.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..615d117dc39f --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-header_page.txt @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +libtraceevent(3) +================ + +NAME +---- +tep_get_header_page_size, tep_get_header_timestamp_size, tep_is_old_format - +Get the data stored in the header page, in kernel context. + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +-- +*#include * + +int *tep_get_header_page_size*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_); +int *tep_get_header_timestamp_size*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_); +bool *tep_is_old_format*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_); +-- +DESCRIPTION +----------- +These functions retrieve information from kernel context, stored in tracefs +events/header_page. Old kernels do not have header page info, so default values +from user space context are used. + +The _tep_get_header_page_size()_ function returns the size of a long integer, +in kernel context. The _tep_ argument is trace event parser context. +This information is retrieved from tracefs events/header_page, "commit" field. + +The _tep_get_header_timestamp_size()_ function returns the size of timestamps, +in kernel context. The _tep_ argument is trace event parser context. This +information is retrieved from tracefs events/header_page, "timestamp" field. + +The _tep_is_old_format()_ function returns true if the kernel predates +the addition of events/header_page, otherwise it returns false. + +RETURN VALUE +------------ +The _tep_get_header_page_size()_ function returns the size of a long integer, +in bytes. + +The _tep_get_header_timestamp_size()_ function returns the size of timestamps, +in bytes. + +The _tep_is_old_format()_ function returns true, if an old kernel is used to +generate the tracing data, which has no event/header_page. If the kernel is new, +or _tep_ is NULL, false is returned. + +EXAMPLE +------- +[source,c] +-- +#include +... +struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc(); +... + int longsize; + int timesize; + bool old; + + longsize = tep_get_header_page_size(tep); + timesize = tep_get_header_timestamp_size(tep); + old = tep_is_old_format(tep); + + printf ("%s kernel is used to generate the tracing data.\n", + old?"Old":"New"); + printf("The size of a long integer is %d bytes.\n", longsize); + printf("The timestamps size is %d bytes.\n", timesize); +... +-- + +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