From 3d2626bd1f15711711b575463befbe137ac1adc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tzvetomir Stoyanov Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 15:56:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Man page for header_page APIs Create a man page for libtraceevent APIs: tep_get_header_page_size(), tep_get_header_timestamp_size(), tep_is_old_format() Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20190503091119.23399-5-tstoyanov@vmware.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190510200106.583928896@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- .../libtraceevent-header_page.txt | 102 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 102 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-header_page.txt diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-header_page.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-header_page.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..615d117dc39f --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-header_page.txt @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +libtraceevent(3) +================ + +NAME +---- +tep_get_header_page_size, tep_get_header_timestamp_size, tep_is_old_format - +Get the data stored in the header page, in kernel context. + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +-- +*#include * + +int *tep_get_header_page_size*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_); +int *tep_get_header_timestamp_size*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_); +bool *tep_is_old_format*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_); +-- +DESCRIPTION +----------- +These functions retrieve information from kernel context, stored in tracefs +events/header_page. Old kernels do not have header page info, so default values +from user space context are used. + +The _tep_get_header_page_size()_ function returns the size of a long integer, +in kernel context. The _tep_ argument is trace event parser context. +This information is retrieved from tracefs events/header_page, "commit" field. + +The _tep_get_header_timestamp_size()_ function returns the size of timestamps, +in kernel context. The _tep_ argument is trace event parser context. This +information is retrieved from tracefs events/header_page, "timestamp" field. + +The _tep_is_old_format()_ function returns true if the kernel predates +the addition of events/header_page, otherwise it returns false. + +RETURN VALUE +------------ +The _tep_get_header_page_size()_ function returns the size of a long integer, +in bytes. + +The _tep_get_header_timestamp_size()_ function returns the size of timestamps, +in bytes. + +The _tep_is_old_format()_ function returns true, if an old kernel is used to +generate the tracing data, which has no event/header_page. If the kernel is new, +or _tep_ is NULL, false is returned. + +EXAMPLE +------- +[source,c] +-- +#include +... +struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc(); +... + int longsize; + int timesize; + bool old; + + longsize = tep_get_header_page_size(tep); + timesize = tep_get_header_timestamp_size(tep); + old = tep_is_old_format(tep); + + printf ("%s kernel is used to generate the tracing data.\n", + old?"Old":"New"); + printf("The size of a long integer is %d bytes.\n", longsize); + printf("The timestamps size is %d bytes.\n", timesize); +... +-- + +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