Commit e57ea935 authored by Tzvetomir Stoyanov's avatar Tzvetomir Stoyanov Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools lib traceevent: Man pages for parse event APIs

Create man pages for libtraceevent APIs:

  tep_parse_event(),
  tep_parse_format()
Signed-off-by: default avatarTzvetomir Stoyanov <tstoyanov@vmware.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20190503091119.23399-24-tstoyanov@vmware.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190510200109.847820380@goodmis.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 854d73c6
libtraceevent(3)
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NAME
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tep_parse_event, tep_parse_format - Parse the event format information
SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
--
*#include <event-parse.h>*
enum tep_errno *tep_parse_event*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, const char pass:[*]_buf_, unsigned long _size_, const char pass:[*]_sys_);
enum tep_errno *tep_parse_format*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, struct tep_event pass:[*]pass:[*]_eventp_, const char pass:[*]_buf_, unsigned long _size_, const char pass:[*]_sys_);
--
DESCRIPTION
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The _tep_parse_event()_ function parses the event format and creates an event
structure to quickly parse raw data for a given event. The _tep_ argument is
the trace event parser context. The created event structure is stored in the
_tep_ context. The _buf_ argument is a buffer with _size_, where the event
format data is. The event format data can be taken from
tracefs/events/.../.../format files. The _sys_ argument is the system of
the event.
The _tep_parse_format()_ function does the same as _tep_parse_event()_. The only
difference is in the extra _eventp_ argument, where the newly created event
structure is returned.
RETURN VALUE
------------
Both _tep_parse_event()_ and _tep_parse_format()_ functions return 0 on success,
or TEP_ERRNO__... in case of an error.
EXAMPLE
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[source,c]
--
#include <event-parse.h>
...
struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc();
...
char *buf;
int size;
struct tep_event *event = NULL;
buf = read_file("/sys/kernel/tracing/events/ftrace/print/format", &size);
if (tep_parse_event(tep, buf, size, "ftrace") != 0) {
/* Failed to parse the ftrace print format */
}
if (tep_parse_format(tep, &event, buf, size, "ftrace") != 0) {
/* Failed to parse the ftrace print format */
}
...
--
FILES
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[verse]
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*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.
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SEE ALSO
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_libtraceevent(3)_, _trace-cmd(1)_
AUTHOR
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[verse]
--
*Steven Rostedt* <rostedt@goodmis.org>, author of *libtraceevent*.
*Tzvetomir Stoyanov* <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>, author of this man page.
--
REPORTING BUGS
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Report bugs to <linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org>
LICENSE
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libtraceevent is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1
RESOURCES
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
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