From 802e985eb682e766992d2f851e4f1843414b3b0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tzvetomir Stoyanov Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 15:56:14 -0400 Subject: 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 Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim 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) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- .../Documentation/libtraceevent-host_endian.txt | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 104 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-host_endian.txt (limited to 'tools/lib') 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 * + +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 +... +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* , author of *libtraceevent*. +*Tzvetomir Stoyanov* , author of this man page. +-- +REPORTING BUGS +-------------- +Report bugs to + +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 -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b