From patchwork Fri May 10 19:56:21 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Steven Rostedt X-Patchwork-Id: 10939471 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 79F2214DB for ; Fri, 10 May 2019 20:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA1B28C9D for ; Fri, 10 May 2019 20:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 5F6FD28CCC; Fri, 10 May 2019 20:02:18 +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 D5F7D28CCE for ; Fri, 10 May 2019 20:02:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728008AbfEJUBK (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 May 2019 16:01:10 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:55118 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727914AbfEJUBK (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 May 2019 16:01:10 -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 2643721882; 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-0006kr-A3; Fri, 10 May 2019 16:01:08 -0400 Message-Id: <20190510200108.197407057@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 15:56:21 -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 15/27] tools/lib/traceevent: Man pages for event find APIs 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 pages for libtraceevent APIs: tep_find_event() tep_find_event_by_name() tep_find_event_by_record() Link: http://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20190503091119.23399-15-tstoyanov@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- .../libtraceevent-event_find.txt | 103 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 103 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..7bc062c9f76f --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-event_find.txt @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +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 +event ID is assigned dynamically and can be viewed in event's format file, +"ID" field. + +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