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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
libtracefs 1.8.0 04/16/2024 LIBTRACEFS(3)