From patchwork Fri May 10 19:56:20 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Steven Rostedt X-Patchwork-Id: 10939501 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 E9FAF1390 for ; Fri, 10 May 2019 20:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9CAA28C9B for ; Fri, 10 May 2019 20:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id CE16F28CCD; 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 5287D28C9B for ; Fri, 10 May 2019 20:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727897AbfEJUC7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 May 2019 16:02:59 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:55194 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727907AbfEJUBJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 May 2019 16:01:09 -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 04AD121873; Fri, 10 May 2019 20:01:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rostedt by gandalf.local.home with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hPBhc-0006kN-4l; Fri, 10 May 2019 16:01:08 -0400 Message-Id: <20190510200108.042164597@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 15:56:20 -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 14/27] tools/lib/traceevent: Man page for tep_read_number() 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 man page for tep_read_number() libtraceevent API. Link: http://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20190503091119.23399-14-tstoyanov@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- .../libtraceevent-endian_read.txt | 78 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 78 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-endian_read.txt diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-endian_read.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-endian_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e64851b6e189 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-endian_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +libtraceevent(3) +================ + +NAME +---- +tep_read_number - Reads a number from raw data. + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +-- +*#include * + +unsigned long long *tep_read_number*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, const void pass:[*]_ptr_, int _size_); +-- + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +The _tep_read_number()_ function reads an integer from raw data, taking into +account the endianness of the raw data and the current host. The _tep_ argument +is the trace event parser context. The _ptr_ is a pointer to the raw data, where +the integer is, and the _size_ is the size of the integer. + +RETURN VALUE +------------ +The _tep_read_number()_ function returns the integer in the byte order of +the current host. In case of an error, 0 is returned. + +EXAMPLE +------- +[source,c] +-- +#include +... +struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc(); +... +void process_record(struct tep_record *record) +{ + int offset = 24; + int data = tep_read_number(tep, record->data + offset, 4); + + /* Read the 4 bytes at the offset 24 of data as an integer */ +} +... +-- + +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