LIBTRACEFS(3)

NAME
tracefs_instance_get_subbuf_size, tracefs_instance_set_subbuf_size - Helper functions for working with ring buffer sub buffers.

SYNOPSIS

#include <tracefs.h>
size_t tracefs_instance_get_subbuf_size(struct tracefs_instance *instance);
int tracefs_instance_set_subbuf_size(struct tracefs_instance *instance, size_t size);

DESCRIPTION

Helper functions for working with the sub-buffers of the tracing ring buffer. The tracing ring buffer is broken up into sub-buffers. An event can not be bigger than the data section of the sub-buffer (see tep_get_sub_buffer_data_size(3)). By default, the ring buffer uses the architectures page_size as the default size of the sub-buffer, but this can be limiting if there is a need for large events, for example, the application wants to write large strings into the trace_marker file.

The tracefs_instance_get_subbuf_size() returns the current size in kilobytes fo the ring buffer sub-buffers.

The tracefs_instance_set_subbuf_size() will write the size in kilobytes of what the new sub-buffer size should be. Note, that this is only a hint to what the minimum sub-buffer size should be. It also does not take into account the meta-data that is used by the sub-buffer, so the size written should be no less than 16 bytes more than the maximum event size that will be used. The kernel will likely make the sub-buffer size larger than specified, as it may need to align the size for implementation purposes.

RETURN VALUE

The tracefs_instance_get_subbuf_size() returns the size of the current sub-buffer for the given instance ring buffer or -1 on error.

The tracefs_instance_set_subbuf_size() will return 0 if it successfully set the instance ring buffer sub-buffer size in kilobytes, or -1 on error.

EXAMPLE

    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <tracefs.h>
    #include <errno.h>
    int main(int argc, char **argv)
    {
            struct tep_handle *tep;
            ssize_t save_subsize;
            ssize_t subsize;
            char *trace;
            char buf[3000];
            int meta_size;
            int ret;
            int i;
            tep = tep_alloc();
            ret = tracefs_load_headers(NULL, tep);
            tep_free(tep);
            if (ret < 0) {
                    perror("reading headers");
                    exit(-1);
            }
            meta_size = tep_get_sub_buffer_size(tep) - tep_get_sub_buffer_data_size(tep);
            save_subsize = tracefs_instance_get_subbuf_size(NULL);
            if (save_subsize < 0) {
                    printf("Changing sub-buffer size not available\n");
                    exit(-1);
            }
            subsize = save_subsize * 1024;
            /* Have at least 4 writes fit on a sub-buffer */
            if (subsize - meta_size < sizeof(buf) *4 ) {
                    subsize = ((sizeof(buf) * 4 + meta_size) + 1023) / 1024;
                    tracefs_instance_set_subbuf_size(NULL, subsize);
            }
            for (i = 0; i < sizeof(buf) - 1; i++) {
                    buf[i] = '0' + i % 10;
            }
            buf[i] = '\0';
            tracefs_instance_clear(NULL);
            for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
                    ret = tracefs_printf(NULL, "%s\n", buf);
                    if (ret < 0)
                            perror("write");
            }
            trace = tracefs_instance_file_read(NULL, "trace", NULL);
            printf("%s\n", trace);
            free(trace);
            printf("Buffer size was: %zd * 1024\n",
                   tracefs_instance_get_subbuf_size(NULL));
            tracefs_instance_set_subbuf_size(NULL, save_subsize);
    }

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