tep_get_cpus(3)

tep_get_cpus3

Get / set the number of cpus, which have a tracing buffer representing it. note, the buffer may be empty.

Usage

#include <event-parse.h>
int tep_get_cpus(struct tep_handle *tep);
void tep_set_cpus(struct tep_handle *tep, int cpus);

Overview

The tep_get_cpus() function gets the number of CPUs, which have a tracing buffer representing it. The tep argument is trace event parser context.

The tep_set_cpus() function sets the number of CPUs, which have a tracing buffer representing it. The tep argument is trace event parser context. The cpu argument is the number of CPUs with tracing data.

Return value

The tep_get_cpus() functions returns the number of CPUs, which have tracing data recorded.

Examples

#include <event-parse.h>
...
struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc();
...
        tep_set_cpus(tep, 5);
...
        printf("We have tracing data for %d CPUs", tep_get_cpus(tep));

Files

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.

Resources

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git/

Notes

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

Author

Steven Rostedt <[email protected][1]>, author of libtraceevent.
Tzvetomir Stoyanov <[email protected][2]>, author of this man page.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected][3]>

License

libtraceevent is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1

From libtraceevent 1:1.9.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.