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Add sample code for user_events typical usage to show how to register
and monitor status, as well as to write out data.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
CFLAGS += -Wl,-no-as-needed -Wall -I../../usr/include

example: example.o
example.o: example.c
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
* Copyright (c) 2021, Microsoft Corporation.
*
* Authors:
* Beau Belgrave <[email protected]>
*/

#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <linux/user_events.h>

/* Assumes debugfs is mounted */
const char *data_file = "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/user_events_data";
const char *status_file = "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/user_events_status";

static int event_status(char **status)
{
int fd = open(status_file, O_RDONLY);

*status = mmap(NULL, sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE), PROT_READ,
MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);

close(fd);

if (*status == MAP_FAILED)
return -1;

return 0;
}

static int event_reg(int fd, const char *command, int *status, int *write)
{
struct user_reg reg = {0};

reg.size = sizeof(reg);
reg.name_args = (__u64)command;

if (ioctl(fd, DIAG_IOCSREG, &reg) == -1)
return -1;

*status = reg.status_index;
*write = reg.write_index;

return 0;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int data_fd, status, write;
char *status_page;
struct iovec io[2];
__u32 count = 0;

if (event_status(&status_page) == -1)
return errno;

data_fd = open(data_file, O_RDWR);

if (event_reg(data_fd, "test u32 count", &status, &write) == -1)
return errno;

/* Setup iovec */
io[0].iov_base = &write;
io[0].iov_len = sizeof(write);
io[1].iov_base = &count;
io[1].iov_len = sizeof(count);

ask:
printf("Press enter to check status...\n");
getchar();

/* Check if anyone is listening */
if (status_page[status]) {
/* Yep, trace out our data */
writev(data_fd, (const struct iovec *)io, 2);

/* Increase the count */
count++;

printf("Something was attached, wrote data\n");
}

goto ask;

return 0;
}

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