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[v3,8/8] libtracefs: Add man pages for tracefs_cpu_pipe()

Message ID 20221109235214.2191393-9-rostedt@goodmis.org (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 9788ac2150eee7dd864c458896f64ae04c344a70
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Series libtracefs: Add reading from per_cpu trace_pipe_raw helper functions | expand

Commit Message

Steven Rostedt Nov. 9, 2022, 11:52 p.m. UTC 
From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Update the man pages to describe the tracefs_cpu_pipe() function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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 Documentation/libtracefs-cpu.txt | 12 +++++++++++-
 Documentation/libtracefs.txt     |  1 +
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/libtracefs-cpu.txt b/Documentation/libtracefs-cpu.txt
index 8975e6ec5a0b..d6215d9912c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/libtracefs-cpu.txt
+++ b/Documentation/libtracefs-cpu.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@  libtracefs(3)
 NAME
 ----
 tracefs_cpu_read_size, tracefs_cpu_read, tracefs_cpu_buffered_read, tracefs_cpu_write,
-tracefs_cpu_stop, tracefs_cpu_flush, tracefs_cpu_flush_write - Reading trace_pipe_raw data
+tracefs_cpu_stop, tracefs_cpu_flush, tracefs_cpu_flush_write, tracefs_cpu_pipe
+- Reading trace_pipe_raw data
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@  int *tracefs_cpu_write*(struct tracefs_cpu pass:[*]_tcpu_, int _wfd_, bool _nonb
 int *tracefs_cpu_stop*(struct tracefs_cpu pass:[*]_tcpu_);
 int *tracefs_cpu_flush*(struct tracefs_cpu pass:[*]_tcpu_, void pass:[*]_buffer_);
 int *tracefs_cpu_flush_write*(struct tracefs_cpu pass:[*]_tcpu_, int _wfd_);
+int *tracefs_cpu_pipe*(struct tracefs_cpu pass:[*]_tcpu_, int _wfd_, bool _nonblock_);
 --
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -66,6 +68,14 @@  trace_pipe_raw into non-blocking mode.
 The *tracefs_cpu_flush_write()* same as *trace_cpu_flush()* except it takes a file
 descriptor _wfd_ to flush the data into.
 
+The *tracefs_cpu_pipe()* is similar to *tracefs_cpu_write()* but the _wfd_ file descriptor
+must be a pipe. This call is an optimization of *tracefs_cpu_write()* that uses two calls
+to *splice*(2) in order to connect the trace_pipe_raw file descriptor with the write file
+descriptor. *splice*(2) requires that one of the passed in file descriptors is a pipe.
+If the application wants to pass the data to an existing pipe, there's no reason for
+there to be two *splice*(2) system calls and *tracefs_cpu_pipe()* can simply use a single
+call to _wfd_.
+
 RETURN VALUE
 ------------
 The *tracefs_cpu_open()* returns a struct tracefs_cpu descriptor that can be
diff --git a/Documentation/libtracefs.txt b/Documentation/libtracefs.txt
index 50af23e33026..0081210f8951 100644
--- a/Documentation/libtracefs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/libtracefs.txt
@@ -280,6 +280,7 @@  Recording of trace_pipe_raw files:
 	int *tracefs_cpu_stop*(struct tracefs_cpu pass:[*]_tcpu_);
 	int *tracefs_cpu_flush*(struct tracefs_cpu pass:[*]_tcpu_, void pass:[*]_buffer_);
 	int *tracefs_cpu_flush_write*(struct tracefs_cpu pass:[*]_tcpu_, int _wfd_);
+	int *tracefs_cpu_pipe*(struct tracefs_cpu pass:[*]_tcpu_, int _wfd_, bool _nonblock_);
 
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