tracefs_event_systems(3) — Linux manual page
LIBTRACEFS(3) libtracefs Manual LIBTRACEFS(3)
NAME
tracefs_event_systems, tracefs_system_events,
tracefs_event_enable, tracefs_event_disable,
tracefs_event_is_enabled - Work with trace systems and events.
SYNOPSIS
#include <tracefs.h>
enum tracefs_event_state {
TRACEFS_ERROR = -1,
TRACEFS_ALL_DISABLED = 0,
TRACEFS_ALL_ENABLED = 1,
TRACEFS_SOME_ENABLED = 2,
};
char **tracefs_event_systems(const char *tracing_dir);
char **tracefs_system_events(const char *tracing_dir, const char *system);
int tracefs_event_enable(struct tracefs_instance *instance, const char *system,
const char *event);
int tracefs_event_disable(struct tracefs_instance *instance, const char *system,
const char *event);
enum tracefs_enable_state tracefs_event_is_enabled(struct tracefs_instance *instance,
const char *system, const char *event);
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_event_enable() function enables a given event based
on the system and event passed in for the given instance. If
instance is NULL, then the top level tracing directory is used.
If system and event are both NULL, then all events are enabled
for the instance. If event is NULL then all events within the
system are enabled. If system is NULL, then all systems are
searched and any event within a system that matches event is
enabled. Both system and event may be regular expressions as
defined by regex(3).
The tracefs_event_disable() function disables the events that
match the system and event parameters for the given instance.
What events are disable follow the same rules as
tracefs_event_enable() for matching events. That is, if instance
is NULL, then the top level tracing directory is used. If both
system and event are NULL then all events are disabled for the
given instance, and so on.
The tracefs_event_is_enabled() returns if an event is enabled, a
set of events are enabled, a system is enabled, or all events are
enabled. If both system and event are NULL, then it returns the
enable state of all events. If system is not NULL and event is
NULL, then it will check if all the events in all the systems
that system and return the enable state of those events. If
system is NULL and event is not NULL, then it will match all the
events in all systems that match event and return their enabled
state. If both system and event are not NULL, then it will return
the enabled state of all matching events. The enabled state is
defined as:
TRACEFS_ERROR - An error occurred including no event were
matched.
TRACEFS_ALL_DISABLED - All matching events are disabled.
TRACEFS_ALL_ENABLED - All matching events are enabled.
TRACEFS_SOME_ENABLED - Some matching events were enabled while
others were not.
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.
Both tracefs_event_enable() and tracefs_event_disable() return 0
if they found any matching events (Note it does not check the
previous status of the event. If tracefs_event_enable() finds an
event that is already enabled, and there are no other errors,
then it will return 0). If an error occurs, even if other events
were found, it will return -1 and errno will be set. If no errors
occur, but no events are found that match the system and event
parameters, then -1 is returned and errno is not set.
The tracefs_event_is_enabled() returns the enabled status of the
matching events or TRACEFS_ERROR on error.
EXAMPLE
#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_handle *tep = tracefs_local_events(NULL);
if (!tep) {
/* Failed to initialise tep handler with local events */
...
}
errno = 0;
ret = tracefs_event_enable(NULL, "sched", NULL);
if (ret < 0 && !errno)
printf("Could not find 'sched' events\n");
tracefs_event_enable(NULL, "irq", "irq_handler_\(enter\|exit\)");
if (tracefs_iterate_raw_events(tep, NULL, NULL, 0, records_walk, NULL) < 0) {
/* Error walking through the recorded raw events */
}
/* Disable all events */
tracefs_event_disable(NULL, NULL, NULL);
tep_free(tep);
FILES
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
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org[1]>
Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com[2]>
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org[3]>
LICENSE
libtracefs is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1
RESOURCES
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtracefs.git/
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2020 VMware, Inc. Free use of this software is
granted under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).
NOTES
1. rostedt@goodmis.org
mailto:rostedt@goodmis.org
2. tz.stoyanov@gmail.com
mailto:tz.stoyanov@gmail.com
3. linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
mailto:linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
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