Documented APIs: tracefs_event_systems() tracefs_system_events() tracefs_iterate_raw_events() Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <tz.stoyanov@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/libtracefs-events.txt | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 140 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/libtracefs-events.txt diff --git a/Documentation/libtracefs-events.txt b/Documentation/libtracefs-events.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1fa4674 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/libtracefs-events.txt @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ +libtracefs(3) +============= + +NAME +---- +tracefs_event_systems, tracefs_system_events, tracefs_iterate_raw_events - +Work with trace systems and events. + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +-- +*#include <tracefs.h>* +*#include <event-parse.h>* + +char pass:[*]pass:[*]*tracefs_event_systems*(const char pass:[*]_tracing_dir_); +char pass:[*]pass:[*]*tracefs_system_events*(const char pass:[*]_tracing_dir_, const char pass:[*]_system_); +int *tracefs_iterate_raw_events*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, struct tracefs_instance pass:[*]_instance_, cpu_set_t pass:[*]_cpus_, int _cpu_size_, int (pass:[*]_callback_)(struct tep_event pass:[*], struct tep_record pass:[*], int, void pass:[*]), void pass:[*]_callback_context_); + +-- + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Trace systems and events related APIs. + +The _tracefs_event_systems()_ function returns array of strings with the +names of all registered trace systems, located in the given _tracing_dir_ +directory. This could be NULL or tracefs mount point, for trace systems in +top instance, or full path to a trace instance, for trace systems in that +instance. The last entry in the array is a NULL pointer. The array must +be freed with _tracefs_list_free()_ API. + +The _tracefs_system_events()_ function returns array of strings with the +names all registered trace events for given trace system, located in the +given _tracing_dir_ directory. This could be NULL or tracefs mount point, +for trace events in top instance, or full path to a trace instance, for +trace events in that instance. The last entry in the array as a NULL +pointer. The array must be freed with _tracefs_list_free()_ API. + +The _tracefs_iterate_raw_events()_ function iterates through all recorded +events in the raw trace ring buffer. It requires an initialized _tep_ +handler. The ring buffer being iterated is in the given _instance_, or +in the top instance if _instance_ is NULL. It can filter events +for given _cpus_ only, a CPU mask of _cpu_size_ size, or walk through all +recorded events, if _cpus_ is a NULL pointer. The _callback_ is called for +every recorded event from the ring buffer. The _callback_context_ parameter +is passed to the _callback_. Parameters of the _callback_ are _tep_ event +handler; a pointer to recorded event, _struct tep_record_; the _cpu_ on +which the event had been happened and the user specified _callback_context_. +If the _callback_ returns non-zero, the iteration stops. + +RETURN VALUE +------------ +The _tracefs_event_systems()_ and __tracefs_system_events()_ functions return +an array of strings. The last element in that array is a NULL pointer. The array +must be freed with _tracefs_list_free()_ API. In case of an error, NULL is returned. + +The _tracefs_iterate_raw_events()_ function returns -1 in case of an error or +0 otherwise. + +EXAMPLE +------- +[source,c] +-- +#include <tracefs.h> +#include <event-parse.h> + +char **systems = tracefs_event_systems(NULL); + + if (systems) { + int i = 0; + /* Got registered trace systems from the top trace instance */ + while (systems[i]) { + char **events = tracefs_system_events(NULL, systems[i]); + if (events) { + /* Got registered events in system[i] from the top trace instance */ + int j = 0; + + while (events[j]) { + /* Got event[j] in system[i] from the top trace instance */ + j++; + } + tracefs_list_free(events); + } + i++; + } + tracefs_list_free(systems); + } +.... +static int records_walk(struct tep_event *tep, struct tep_record *record, int cpu, void *context) +{ + /* Got recorded event on cpu */ + return 0; +} +... +struct tep_event *tep = tracefs_local_events(NULL); + + if (!tep) { + /* Failed to initialise tep handler with local events */ + ... + } + if (tracefs_iterate_raw_events(tep, NULL, NULL, 0, records_walk, NULL) < 0) { + /* Error walking through the recorded raw events */ + } + tep_free(tep); +-- +FILES +----- +[verse] +-- +*tracefs.h* + Header file to include in order to have access to the library APIs. +*-ltracefs* + Linker switch to add when building a program that uses the library. +-- + +SEE ALSO +-------- +_libtracefs(3)_, +_libtraceevent(3)_, +_trace-cmd(1)_ + +AUTHOR +------ +[verse] +-- +*Steven Rostedt* <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> +*Tzvetomir Stoyanov* <tz.stoyanov@xxxxxxxxx> +-- +REPORTING BUGS +-------------- +Report bugs to <linux-trace-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> + +LICENSE +------- +libtracefs is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 + +RESOURCES +--------- +https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtracefs.git/ \ No newline at end of file -- 2.28.0