From patchwork Tue Nov 27 15:42:31 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Tzvetomir Stoyanov X-Patchwork-Id: 10759941 Return-Path: Received: from mail-eopbgr730072.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([40.107.73.72]:22643 "EHLO NAM05-DM3-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729913AbeK1ClJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:41:09 -0500 From: Tzvetomir Stoyanov To: "rostedt@goodmis.org" CC: "linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [PATCH v3 19/46] tools/lib/traceevent: Man page for tep_list_events() Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:42:31 +0000 Message-ID: <20181127154153.11315-20-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: 2924 Create man page for tep_list_events() as part of the libtraceevent APIs. Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov --- .../libtraceevent-event_list.txt | 94 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 94 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-event_list.txt diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-event_list.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-event_list.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f443d8648a34 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-event_list.txt @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +libtraceevent(3) +================ + +NAME +---- +tep_list_events - Get list of events, sorted by given criteria. + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +-- +*#include * + +enum *tep_event_sort_type* { + _TEP_EVENT_SORT_ID_, + _TEP_EVENT_SORT_NAME_, + _TEP_EVENT_SORT_SYSTEM_, +}; + +struct tep_event pass:[*]pass:[*]*tep_list_events*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, enum tep_event_sort_type _sort_type_); +-- + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +The _tep_list_events()_ function returns an array of pointers to the events, +sorted by the _sort_type_ criteria. The last element of the array is NULL. +The returned memory must not be freed, it is managed by the library. +The _tep_ argument is trace event parser context. The _sort_type_ argument is +the required sort criteria: +[verse] +-- + _TEP_EVENT_SORT_ID_ - sort by the event ID. + _TEP_EVENT_SORT_NAME_ - sort by the event (name, system, id) triplet. + _TEP_EVENT_SORT_SYSTEM_ - sort by the event (system, name, id) triplet. +-- + +RETURN VALUE +------------ +The _tep_list_events()_ function returns an array of pointers to events. +In case of an error, NULL is returned. + +EXAMPLE +------- +[source,c] +-- +#include +... +struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc(); +... +int i=0; +struct tep_event_format **events = tep_list_events(tep, TEP_EVENT_SORT_ID); +if (events == NULL) { + /* Failed to get the events, sorted by ID */ +} else { + while(events[i]) { + /* walk through the list of the events, sorted by the ID */ + i++; + } +} +... +-- + +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