diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-plugins.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-plugins.txt | 25 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-plugins.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-plugins.txt index 596032ade31f..4d6394397d92 100644 --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-plugins.txt +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-plugins.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ libtraceevent(3) NAME ---- -tep_load_plugins, tep_unload_plugins - Load / unload traceevent plugins. +tep_load_plugins, tep_unload_plugins, tep_load_plugins_hook - Load / unload traceevent plugins. SYNOPSIS -------- @@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ SYNOPSIS 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_); +void *tep_load_plugins_hook*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_, const char pass:[*]_suffix_, + void (pass:[*]_load_plugin_)(struct tep_handle pass:[*]tep, + const char pass:[*]path, + const char pass:[*]name, + void pass:[*]data), + void pass:[*]_data_); -- DESCRIPTION @@ -22,11 +28,13 @@ directories. The _tep_ argument is trace event parser context. The plugin directories are : [verse] -- + - Directories, specified in _tep_->plugins_dir with priority TEP_PLUGIN_FIRST - 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_ + - Directories, specified in _tep_->plugins_dir with priority TEP_PLUGIN_LAST -- Loading of plugins can be controlled by the _tep_flags_, using the _tep_set_flag()_ API: @@ -44,6 +52,12 @@ _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. +The _tep_load_plugins_hook_ function walks through all directories with plugins +and calls user specified _load_plugin()_ hook for each plugin file. Only files +with given _suffix_ are considered to be plugins. The _data_ is a user specified +context, passed to _load_plugin()_. Directories and the walk order are the same +as in _tep_load_plugins()_ API. + RETURN VALUE ------------ The _tep_load_plugins()_ function returns a list of successfully loaded plugins, @@ -63,6 +77,15 @@ if (plugins == NULL) { } ... tep_unload_plugins(plugins, tep); +... +void print_plugin(struct tep_handle *tep, const char *path, + const char *name, void *data) +{ + pritnf("Found libtraceevent plugin %s/%s\n", path, name); +} +... +tep_load_plugins_hook(tep, ".so", print_plugin, NULL); +... -- FILES |