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 | 143 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 143 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..3a51055 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/libtracefs-events.txt @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +libtracefs(3) +============= + +NAME +---- +tracefs_event_systems, tracefs_system_events, tracefs_iterate_raw_events - +Work with trace systems and events. + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +-- +*#include <tracefs.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 the location of the tracefs mount point +for the trace systems of the local machine, or it may be a path to a copy +of the tracefs directory from another machine. 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 of all registered trace events for given trace system specified by +_system_, located in the given _tracing_dir_ directory. This could be NULL +or the location of the tracefs mount point for the trace systems of the +local machine, or it may be a path to a copy of the tracefs directory +from another machine. The last entry in the array as a NULL pointer. +The array must be freed with _tracefs_list_free()_ API. + +The _tracefs_interate_raw_events()_ function will read the tracefs raw +data buffers and call the specified _callback_ function for every event it +encounters. An initialized _tep_ handler is required (See +_tracefs_local_events_(3)). If _instance_ is NULL, then the toplevel +tracefs buffer is used, otherwise the buffer for the corresponding +_instance_ is read. To filter only on a subset of CPUs, _cpus_ and +_cpu_size_ may be set to only call _callback_ with events that occurred on +the CPUs specified, otherwise if _cpus_ is NULL then the _callback_ +function will be called for all events, and _cpu_size_ is ignored. The +_callback_ function will be called with the following parameters: A +pointer to a struct tep_event that corresponds to the type of event the +record is; The record representing the event; The CPU that the event +occurred on; and a pointer to user specified _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> + +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