Name

relay_open — create a new relay channel

Synopsis

struct rchan * relay_open (const char * base_filename,
 struct dentry * parent,
 size_t subbuf_size,
 size_t n_subbufs,
 struct rchan_callbacks * cb,
 void * private_data);
 

Arguments

base_filename

base name of files to create, NULL for buffering only

parent

dentry of parent directory, NULL for root directory or buffer

subbuf_size

size of sub-buffers

n_subbufs

number of sub-buffers

cb

client callback functions

private_data

user-defined data

Description

Returns channel pointer if successful, NULL otherwise.

Creates a channel buffer for each cpu using the sizes and attributes specified. The created channel buffer files will be named base_filename0...base_filenameN-1. File permissions will be S_IRUSR.