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author | Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tstoyanov@vmware.com> | 2019-05-10 15:56:14 -0400 |
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committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2019-05-15 16:36:47 -0300 |
commit | 802e985eb682e766992d2f851e4f1843414b3b0e (patch) | |
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tools lib traceevent: Man page for host endian APIs
Create man pages for libtraceevent APIs:
tep_is_bigendian(),
tep_is_local_bigendian(),
tep_set_local_bigendian()
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/20190503091119.23399-8-tstoyanov@vmware.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190510200107.063709363@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r-- | tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-host_endian.txt | 104 |
1 files changed, 104 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-host_endian.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-host_endian.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d5d375eb8d1e --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-host_endian.txt @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +libtraceevent(3) +================ + +NAME +---- +tep_is_bigendian, tep_is_local_bigendian, tep_set_local_bigendian - Get / set +the endianness of the local machine. + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +-- +*#include <event-parse.h>* + +enum *tep_endian* { + TEP_LITTLE_ENDIAN = 0, + TEP_BIG_ENDIAN +}; + +int *tep_is_bigendian*(void); +bool *tep_is_local_bigendian*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_); +void *tep_set_local_bigendian*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, enum tep_endian _endian_); +-- + +DESCRIPTION +----------- + +The _tep_is_bigendian()_ gets the endianness of the machine, executing +the function. + +The _tep_is_local_bigendian()_ function gets the endianness of the local +machine, saved in the _tep_ handler. The _tep_ argument is the trace event +parser context. This API is a bit faster than _tep_is_bigendian()_, as it +returns cached endianness of the local machine instead of checking it each time. + +The _tep_set_local_bigendian()_ function sets the endianness of the local +machine in the _tep_ handler. The _tep_ argument is trace event parser context. +The _endian_ argument is the endianness: +[verse] +-- + _TEP_LITTLE_ENDIAN_ - the machine is little endian, + _TEP_BIG_ENDIAN_ - the machine is big endian. +-- + +RETURN VALUE +------------ +The _tep_is_bigendian()_ function returns non zero if the endianness of the +machine, executing the code, is big endian and zero otherwise. + +The _tep_is_local_bigendian()_ function returns true, if the endianness of the +local machine, saved in the _tep_ handler, is big endian, or false otherwise. + +EXAMPLE +------- +[source,c] +-- +#include <event-parse.h> +... +struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc(); +... + if (tep_is_bigendian()) + tep_set_local_bigendian(tep, TEP_BIG_ENDIAN); + else + tep_set_local_bigendian(tep, TEP_LITTLE_ENDIAN); +... + if (tep_is_local_bigendian(tep)) + printf("This machine you are running on is bigendian\n"); + else + printf("This machine you are running on is little endian\n"); + +-- + +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)_ + +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 |