From patchwork Tue Nov 27 15:42:40 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Tzvetomir Stoyanov X-Patchwork-Id: 10759951 Return-Path: Received: from mail-eopbgr700068.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([40.107.70.68]:1600 "EHLO NAM04-SN1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726524AbeK1Clg (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:41:36 -0500 From: Tzvetomir Stoyanov To: "rostedt@goodmis.org" CC: "linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [PATCH v3 26/46] tools/lib/traceevent: Man pages for tep_event_common_fields() and tep_event_fields() Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:42:40 +0000 Message-ID: <20181127154153.11315-27-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: 3181 Create man pages for tep_event_common_fields() and tep_event_fields() as part of the libtraceevent APIs. Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov --- .../Documentation/libtraceevent-fields.txt | 99 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 99 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-fields.txt diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-fields.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-fields.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..45e1e05cbfb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-fields.txt @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +libtraceevent(3) +================ + +NAME +---- +tep_event_common_fields,tep_event_fields - Get a list of fields for an event. + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +-- +*#include * + +struct tep_format_field pass:[*]pass:[*]*tep_event_common_fields*(struct tep_event pass:[*]_event_); +struct tep_format_field pass:[*]pass:[*]*tep_event_fields*(struct tep_event pass:[*]_event_); +-- + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +The _tep_event_common_fields()_ function returns an array of pointers to common +fields for the _event_. The array is allocated in the function and must be freed +by free(). The last element of the array is NULL. + +The _tep_event_fields()_ function returns an array of pointers to event specific +fields for the _event_. The array is allocated in the function and must be freed +by free(). The last element of the array is NULL. + +RETURN VALUE +------------ +Both _tep_event_common_fields()_ and _tep_event_fields()_ functions return +an array of pointers to tep_format_field structures in case of success, or +NULL in case of an error. + +EXAMPLE +------- +[source,c] +-- +#include +... +struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc(); +... +int i; +struct tep_format_field **fields; +struct tep_event *event = tep_find_event_by_name(tep, "kvm", "kvm_exit"); +if (event != NULL) { + fields = tep_event_common_fields(event); + if (fields != NULL) { + i = 0; + while (fields[i]) { + /* walk through the list of the common fields of the kvm_exit event */ + i++; + } + free(fields); + } + fields = tep_event_fields(event); + if (fields != NULL) { + i = 0; + while (fields[i]) { + /* walk through the list of the event specific fields of the kvm_exit event */ + i++; + } + free(fields); + } +} +... +-- + +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