Add an API to create a tracecmd_handle from a file, read and parse only the trace headers from the file. This allows to implement opening a trace file on stages - reading the trace headers and reading the trace data. Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <tz.stoyanov@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/trace-cmd/trace-cmd.h | 1 + lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/trace-cmd/trace-cmd.h b/include/trace-cmd/trace-cmd.h index 3f96bbde..e22aa251 100644 --- a/include/trace-cmd/trace-cmd.h +++ b/include/trace-cmd/trace-cmd.h @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ typedef void (*tracecmd_handle_init_func)(struct tracecmd_input *handle, struct tracecmd_input *tracecmd_alloc(const char *file); struct tracecmd_input *tracecmd_alloc_fd(int fd); struct tracecmd_input *tracecmd_open(const char *file); +struct tracecmd_input *tracecmd_open_head(const char *file); struct tracecmd_input *tracecmd_open_fd(int fd); void tracecmd_ref(struct tracecmd_input *handle); void tracecmd_close(struct tracecmd_input *handle); diff --git a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c index ee9bfb52..efc8d4bd 100644 --- a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c +++ b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c @@ -3175,6 +3175,34 @@ struct tracecmd_input *tracecmd_open(const char *file) return tracecmd_open_fd(fd); } +/** + * tracecmd_open_head - create a tracecmd_handle from a given file, read + * read and parse only the trace headers from the file + * @file: the file name of the file that is of tracecmd data type. + */ +struct tracecmd_input *tracecmd_open_head(const char *file) +{ + struct tracecmd_input *handle; + int fd; + + fd = open(file, O_RDONLY); + if (fd < 0) + return NULL; + + handle = tracecmd_alloc_fd(fd); + if (!handle) + return NULL; + + if (tracecmd_read_headers(handle) < 0) + goto fail; + + return handle; + +fail: + tracecmd_close(handle); + return NULL; +} + /** * tracecmd_ref - add a reference to the handle * @handle: input handle for the trace.dat file -- 2.25.1