From patchwork Tue Nov 27 15:42:29 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Tzvetomir Stoyanov X-Patchwork-Id: 10759933 Return-Path: Received: from mail-eopbgr730068.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([40.107.73.68]:47354 "EHLO NAM05-DM3-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729862AbeK1Ck5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:40:57 -0500 From: Tzvetomir Stoyanov To: "rostedt@goodmis.org" CC: "linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [PATCH v3 18/46] tools/lib/traceevent: Man pages for tep_find_event(), tep_find_event_by_name() and tep_find_event_by_record() Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:42:29 +0000 Message-ID: <20181127154153.11315-19-tstoyanov@vmware.com> References: <20181127154153.11315-1-tstoyanov@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <20181127154153.11315-1-tstoyanov@vmware.com> Content-Language: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-trace-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Length: 3295 Create man pages for tep_find_event(), tep_find_event_by_name() and tep_find_event_by_record() as part of the libtraceevent APIs. Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov --- .../libtraceevent-event_find.txt | 99 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 99 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-event_find.txt diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-event_find.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-event_find.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..69a91bd21639 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-event_find.txt @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +libtraceevent(3) +================ + +NAME +---- +tep_find_event,tep_find_event_by_name,tep_find_event_by_record - Find events by given key. + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +-- +*#include * + +struct tep_event pass:[*]*tep_find_event*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, int _id_); +struct tep_event pass:[*]*tep_find_event_by_name*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, const char pass:[*]_sys_, const char pass:[*]_name_); +struct tep_event pass:[*]*tep_find_event_by_record*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, struct tep_record pass:[*]_record_); +-- + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +This set of functions can be used to search for an event, based on a given +criteria. All functions require a pointer to a _tep_, trace event parser context. + +The _tep_find_event()_ function searches for an event by given event _id_. + +The tep_find_event_by_name()_ function searches for an event by given +event _name_, under the system _sys_. If the _sys_ is NULL (not specified), +the first event with _name_ is returned. + +The tep_find_event_by_record()_ function searches for an event from a given +_record_. + +RETURN VALUE +------------ +All these functions return a pointer to the found event, or NULL if there is no +such event. + +EXAMPLE +------- +[source,c] +-- +#include +... +struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc(); +... +struct tep_event *event; + +event = tep_find_event(tep, 1857); +if (event == NULL) { + /* There is no event with ID 1857 */ +} + +event = tep_find_event_by_name(tep, "kvm", "kvm_exit"); +if (event == NULL) { + /* There is no kvm_exit event, from kvm system */ +} + +void event_from_record(struct tep_record *record) +{ + struct tep_event *event = tep_find_event_by_record(tep, record); + if (event == NULL) { + /* There is no event from given record */ + } +} +... +-- + +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