include/babeltrace/context.h

   1 #ifndef _BABELTRACE_CONTEXT_H
   2 #define _BABELTRACE_CONTEXT_H
   3
   4 /*
   5  * BabelTrace
   6  *
   7  * context header
   8  *
   9  * Copyright 2012 EfficiOS Inc. and Linux Foundation
  10  *
  11  * Author: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
  12  *         Julien Desfossez <julien.desfossez@efficios.com>
  13  *
  14  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
  15  * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
  16  * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
  17  * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
  18  * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
  19  * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
  20  * the following conditions:
  21  *
  22  * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
  23  * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
  24  */
  25
  26 #include <unistd.h>
  27 #include <babeltrace/format.h>
  28
  29 #ifdef __cplusplus
  30 extern "C" {
  31 #endif
  32
  33 /* struct bt_context is opaque to the user */
  34 struct bt_context;
  35 struct stream_pos;
  36 struct bt_ctf_event;
  37
  38 /*
  39  * bt_context_create : create a Babeltrace context
  40  *
  41  * Allocate a new context. The creation of the context sets the refcount
  42  * to 1.
  43  *
  44  * Returns an allocated context on success and NULL on error
  45  */
  46 struct bt_context *bt_context_create(void);
  47
  48 /*
  49  * bt_context_add_trace : Add a trace by path to the context
  50  *
  51  * Open a trace.
  52  *
  53  * path is the path to the trace, it is not recursive. If "path" is NULL,
  54  * stream_list is used instead as a list of mmap streams to open for the trace.
  55  *
  56  * format is a string containing the format name in which the trace was
  57  * produced.
  58  *
  59  * packet_seek can be NULL to use the default packet_seek handler provided by
  60  * the trace format. If non-NULL, it is used as an override of the handler for
  61  * seeks across packets. It takes as parameter a stream position, the packet
  62  * index it needs to seek to (for SEEK_SET), and a "whence" parameter (either
  63  * SEEK_CUR: seek to next packet, or SEEK_SET: seek to packet at packet index).
  64  *
  65  * stream_list is a linked list of streams, it is used to open a trace where
  66  * the trace data is located in memory mapped areas instead of trace files,
  67  * this argument should be set to NULL when path is NULL.
  68  *
  69  * The metadata parameter acts as a metadata override when not NULL, otherwise
  70  * the format handles the metadata opening.
  71  *
  72  * Return: the trace handle id (>= 0) on success, a negative
  73  * value on error.
  74  */
  75 int bt_context_add_trace(struct bt_context *ctx, const char *path,
  76                 const char *format,
  77                 void (*packet_seek)(struct stream_pos *pos,
  78                         size_t index, int whence),
  79                 struct mmap_stream_list *stream_list,
  80                 FILE *metadata);
  81
  82 /*
  83  * bt_context_remove_trace: Remove a trace from the context.
  84  *
  85  * Effectively closing the trace. Return negative error value if trace
  86  * is not in context.
  87  */
  88 int bt_context_remove_trace(struct bt_context *ctx, int trace_id);
  89
  90 /*
  91  * bt_context_get and bt_context_put : increments and decrement the
  92  * refcount of the context
  93  *
  94  * These functions ensures that the context won't be destroyed when it
  95  * is in use. The same number of get and put (plus one extra put to
  96  * release the initial reference done at creation) has to be done to
  97  * destroy a context.
  98  *
  99  * When the context refcount is decremented to 0 by a bt_context_put,
 100  * the context is freed.
 101  */
 102 void bt_context_get(struct bt_context *ctx);
 103 void bt_context_put(struct bt_context *ctx);
 104
 105 /*
 106  * bt_ctf_get_context : get the context associated with an event
 107  *
 108  * Returns NULL on error
 109  */
 110 struct bt_context *bt_ctf_event_get_context(const struct bt_ctf_event *event);
 111
 112 #ifdef __cplusplus
 113 }
 114 #endif
 115
 116 #endif /* _BABELTRACE_CONTEXT_H */