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authorTzvetomir Stoyanov <tstoyanov@vmware.com>2019-09-19 17:23:40 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-09-25 09:51:43 -0300
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treecf321262c48a17d808a8429f239328d02781a91e /tools/lib/traceevent
parent077faf3dc7cc13c3bd784613304bf38696b591da (diff)
libtraceevent: Man pages for tep plugins APIs
Create man pages for libtraceevent APIs: tep_load_plugins(), tep_unload_plugin() Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir 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/20190903133434.30417-1-tz.stoyanov@gmail.com Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190919212542.216189588@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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+libtraceevent(3)
+================
+
+NAME
+----
+tep_load_plugins, tep_unload_plugins - Load / unload traceevent plugins.
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+--
+*#include <event-parse.h>*
+
+struct tep_plugin_list pass:[*]*tep_load_plugins*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_);
+void *tep_unload_plugins*(struct tep_plugin_list pass:[*]_plugin_list_, struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_);
+--
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+The _tep_load_plugins()_ function loads all plugins, located in the plugin
+directories. The _tep_ argument is trace event parser context.
+The plugin directories are :
+[verse]
+--
+ - System's plugin directory, defined at the library compile time. It
+ depends on the library installation prefix and usually is
+ _(install_preffix)/lib/traceevent/plugins_
+ - Directory, defined by the environment variable _TRACEEVENT_PLUGIN_DIR_
+ - User's plugin directory, located at _~/.local/lib/traceevent/plugins_
+--
+Loading of plugins can be controlled by the _tep_flags_, using the
+_tep_set_flag()_ API:
+[verse]
+--
+ _TEP_DISABLE_SYS_PLUGINS_ - do not load plugins, located in
+ the system's plugin directory.
+ _TEP_DISABLE_PLUGINS_ - do not load any plugins.
+--
+The _tep_set_flag()_ API needs to be called before _tep_load_plugins()_, if
+loading of all plugins is not the desired case.
+
+The _tep_unload_plugins()_ function unloads the plugins, previously loaded by
+_tep_load_plugins()_. The _tep_ argument is trace event parser context. The
+_plugin_list_ is the list of loaded plugins, returned by
+the _tep_load_plugins()_ function.
+
+RETURN VALUE
+------------
+The _tep_load_plugins()_ function returns a list of successfully loaded plugins,
+or NULL in case no plugins are loaded.
+
+EXAMPLE
+-------
+[source,c]
+--
+#include <event-parse.h>
+...
+struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc();
+...
+struct tep_plugin_list *plugins = tep_load_plugins(tep);
+if (plugins == NULL) {
+ /* no plugins are loaded */
+}
+...
+tep_unload_plugins(plugins, tep);
+--
+
+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)_, _tep_set_flag(3)_
+
+AUTHOR
+------
+[verse]
+--
+*Steven Rostedt* <rostedt@goodmis.org>, author of *libtraceevent*.
+*Tzvetomir Stoyanov* <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>, author of this man page.
+--
+REPORTING BUGS
+--------------
+Report bugs to <linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org>
+
+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