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.\" Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Joseph Koshy. All rights reserved.
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 24, 2005
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.Os
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.Dt PMC 3
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm pmc_allocate ,
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.Nm pmc_attach ,
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.Nm pmc_capabilities ,
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.Nm pmc_configure_logfile ,
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.Nm pmc_cpuinfo ,
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.Nm pmc_detach ,
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.Nm pmc_disable ,
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.Nm pmc_enable ,
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.Nm pmc_event_names_of_class ,
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.Nm pmc_flush_logfile ,
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.Nm pmc_get_driver_stats ,
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.Nm pmc_get_msr ,
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.Nm pmc_init ,
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.Nm pmc_name_of_capability ,
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.Nm pmc_name_of_class ,
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.Nm pmc_name_of_cputype ,
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.Nm pmc_name_of_event ,
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.Nm pmc_name_of_mode ,
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.Nm pmc_name_of_state ,
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.Nm pmc_ncpu ,
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.Nm pmc_npmc ,
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.Nm pmc_pmcinfo ,
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.Nm pmc_read ,
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.Nm pmc_release ,
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.Nm pmc_rw ,
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.Nm pmc_set ,
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.Nm pmc_start ,
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.Nm pmc_stop ,
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.Nm pmc_width ,
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.Nm pmc_write ,
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.Nm pmc_writelog
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.Nd programming API for using hardware performance monitoring counters
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libpmc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In pmc.h
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.Ft int
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.Fo pmc_allocate
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.Fa "const char *eventspecifier"
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.Fa "enum pmc_mode mode"
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.Fa "uint32_t flags"
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.Fa "uint32_t cpu"
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.Fa "pmc_id_t *pmcid"
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.Fc
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_attach "pmc_id_t pmcid" "pid_t pid"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_capabilities "pmc_id_t pmc" "uint32_t *caps"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_configure_logfile "int fd"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_cpuinfo "const struct pmc_cpuinfo **cpu_info"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_detach "pmc_id_t pmcid" "pid_t pid"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_disable "uint32_t cpu" "int pmc"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_enable "uint32_t cpu" "int pmc"
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.Ft int
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.Fo pmc_event_names_of_class
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.Fa "enum pmc_class cl"
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.Fa "const char ***eventnames"
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.Fa "int *nevents"
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.Fc
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_flush_logfile void
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_get_driver_stats "struct pmc_driverstats *gms"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_get_msr "pmc_id_t pmc" "uint32_t *msr"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_init void
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.Ft "const char *"
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.Fn pmc_name_of_capability "enum pmc_caps pc"
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.Ft "const char *"
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.Fn pmc_name_of_class "enum pmc_class pc"
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.Ft "const char *"
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.Fn pmc_name_of_cputype "enum pmc_cputype ct"
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.Ft "const char *"
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.Fn pmc_name_of_disposition "enum pmc_disp pd"
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.Ft "const char *"
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.Fn pmc_name_of_event "enum pmc_event pe"
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.Ft "const char *"
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.Fn pmc_name_of_mode "enum pmc_mode pm"
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.Ft "const char *"
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.Fn pmc_name_of_state "enum pmc_state ps"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_ncpu void
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_npmc "uint32_t cpu"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_pmcinfo "uint32_t cpu" "struct pmc_pmcinfo **pmc_info"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_read "pmc_id_t pmc" "pmc_value_t *value"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_release "pmc_id_t pmc"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_rw "pmc_id_t pmc" "pmc_value_t newvalue" "pmc_value_t *oldvaluep"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_set "pmc_id_t pmc" "pmc_value_t value"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_start "pmc_id_t pmc"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_stop "pmc_id_t pmc"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_write "pmc_id_t pmc" "pmc_value_t value"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_writelog "uint32_t userdata"
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.Ft int
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.Fn pmc_width "pmc_id_t pmc" "uint32_t *width"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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These functions implement a high-level library for using the
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system's hardware performance counters.
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.Pp
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PMCs are allocated using
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.Fn pmc_allocate ,
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released using
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.Fn pmc_release
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and read using
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.Fn pmc_read .
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Allocated PMCs may be started or stopped at any time using
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.Fn pmc_start
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and
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.Fn pmc_stop
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respectively.
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An allocated PMC may be of
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.Dq global
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scope, meaning that the PMC measures system-wide events, or
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.Dq process-private
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scope, meaning that the PMC only counts hardware events when
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the allocating process (or, optionally, its children)
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are active.
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.Pp
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PMCs may further be in
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.Dq "counting mode" ,
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or in
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.Dq "sampling mode" .
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Sampling mode PMCs deliver an interrupt to the CPU after
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a configured number of hardware events have been seen.
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A process-private sampling mode PMC will cause its owner
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process to get periodic
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.Dv SIGPROF
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interrupts, while a global sampling mode PMC is used to
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do system-wide statistical sampling (see
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.Xr hwpmc 4 ) .
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The sampling rate desired of a sampling-mode PMC is set using
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.Fn pmc_set .
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Counting mode PMCs do not interrupt the CPU; their values
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can be read using
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.Fn pmc_read .
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.Pp
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System-wide statistical sampling is configured by allocating
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at least one sampling mode PMC with
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global scope, and when a log file is configured using
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.Fn pmc_configure_logfile .
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The
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.Xr hwpmc 4
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driver manages system-wide statistical sampling; for more
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information please see
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.Xr hwpmc 4 .
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.Ss Application Programming Interface
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The function
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.Fn pmc_init
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initializes the
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.Xr pmc 3
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library.
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This function must be called first, before any of the other
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functions in the library.
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.Pp
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The function
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.Fn pmc_allocate
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allocates a counter that counts the events named by
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.Fa eventspecifier ,
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and writes the allocated counter ID to
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.Fa *pmcid .
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Argument
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.Fa eventspecifier
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comprises an PMC event name followed by an optional comma separated
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list of keywords and qualifiers.
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The allowed syntax for
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.Fa eventspecifier
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is processor architecture specific and is listed in section
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.Sx "EVENT SPECIFIERS"
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below.
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The desired PMC mode is specified by
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.Fa mode ,
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and any mode specific modifiers are specified using
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.Fa flags .
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The
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.Fa cpu
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argument is the value
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.Dv PMC_CPU_ANY ,
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or names the CPU the allocation is to be on.
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Requesting a specific CPU only makes sense for global PMCs;
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process-private PMC allocations should always specify
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.Dv PMC_CPU_ANY .
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.Pp
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By default, a PMC configured in process-virtual counting mode is set up
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to profile its owner process.
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The function
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.Fn pmc_attach
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may be used to attach the PMC to a different process.
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It
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needs to be called before the counter is first started
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with
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.Fn pmc_start .
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The function
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.Fn pmc_detach
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may be used to detach a PMC from a process it was attached to
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using a prior call to
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.Fn pmc_attach .
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.Pp
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The function
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.Fn pmc_release
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releases a PMC previously allocated with
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.Fn pmc_allocate .
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This function call implicitly detaches the PMC from all its target
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processes.
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.Pp
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An allocated PMC may be started and stopped using
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.Fn pmc_start
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and
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.Fn pmc_stop
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respectively.
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.Pp
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The current value of a PMC may be read with
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.Fn pmc_read
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and written using
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.Fn pmc_write ,
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provided the underlying hardware supports these operations on
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the allocated PMC.
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The read and write operation may be combined using
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.Fn pmc_rw .
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.Pp
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The function
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.Fn pmc_capabilities
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sets argument
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.Fa caps
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to a bitmask of capabilities supported by the PMC denoted by
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argument
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.Fa pmc .
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The function
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.Fn pmc_width
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sets argument
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.Fa width
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to the width of the PMC denoted by argument
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.Fa pmc .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn pmc_configure_logfile
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function causes the
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.Xr hwpmc 4
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driver to log performance data to file corresponding
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to the process' file handle
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.Fa fd .
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If argument
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.Fa fd
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is \-1, then any previously configured logging is reset
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and all data queued to be written are discarded.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn pmc_flush_logfile
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function will send all data queued inside the
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.Xr hwpmc 4
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driver to the configured log file before returning.
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The
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.Fn pmc_writelog
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function will append a log entry containing the argument
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.Fa userdata
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to the log file.
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.Pp
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The function
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.Fn pmc_set
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configures a sampling PMC
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.Fa pmc
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to interrupt every
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.Fa value
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events.
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For counting PMCs,
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.Fn pmc_set
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sets the initial value of the PMC to
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.Fa value .
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.Pp
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The function
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.Fn pmc_get_driver_statistics
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copies a snapshot of the usage statistics maintained by
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.Xr hwpmc 4
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into the memory area pointed to by argument
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.Fa gms .
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.Ss Signal Handling Requirements
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Applications using PMCs are required to handle the following signals:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Dv SIGBUS
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When the
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.Xr hwpmc 4
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module is unloaded using
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.Xr kldunload 8 ,
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processes that have PMCs allocated to them will be sent a
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.Dv SIGBUS
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signal.
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.It Dv SIGIO
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The
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.Xr hwpmc 4
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driver will send a PMC owning process a
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.Dv SIGIO
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signal if:
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.Bl -bullet
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.It
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If any process-mode PMC allocated by it loses all its
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target processes.
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.It
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If the driver encounters an error when writing log data to a
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configured log file.
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This error may be retrieved by a subsequent call to
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.Fn pmc_flush_logfile .
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.El
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.El
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.Ss Convenience Functions
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The function
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.Fn pmc_ncpu
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returns the number of CPUs present in the system.
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.Pp
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The function
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.Fn pmc_npmc
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returns the number of PMCs supported on CPU
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.Fa cpu .
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The function
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.Fn pmc_cpuinfo
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sets argument
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.Fa cpu_info
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to point to a structure with information about the system's CPUs.
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Function
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.Fn pmc_pmcinfo
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returns information about the current state of CPU
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.Fa cpu Ns 's
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PMCs.
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This function sets argument
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.Fa *pmc_info
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to point to a memory area allocated with
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.Xr calloc 3 .
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The caller is expected to
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.Fn free
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the area when done.
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.Pp
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The functions
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.Fn pmc_name_of_capability ,
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.Fn pmc_name_of_class ,
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.Fn pmc_name_of_cputype ,
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.Fn pmc_name_of_disposition ,
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.Fn pmc_name_of_event ,
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.Fn pmc_name_of_mode
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and
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.Fn pmc_name_of_state
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are useful for code wanting to print error messages.
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They return
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.Vt "const char *"
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pointers to human-readable representations of their arguments.
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These return values should not be freed using
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.Xr free 3 .
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.Pp
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The function
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.Fn pmc_event_names_of_class
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returns a list of event names supported by a given PMC class
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.Fa cl .
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On successful return, an array of
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.Vt "const char *"
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pointers to the names of valid events supported by class
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.Fa cl
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is allocated by the library using
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.Xr malloc 3 ,
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and a pointer to this array is returned in the location pointed to by
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.Fa eventnames .
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The number of pointers allocated is returned in the location pointed
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to by
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.Fa nevents .
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.Ss Administration
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Individual PMCs may be enabled or disabled on a given CPU using
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.Fn pmc_enable
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and
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.Fn pmc_disable
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respectively.
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For these functions,
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.Fa cpu
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is the CPU number, and
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.Fa pmc
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is the index of the PMC to be operated on.
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Only the super-user is allowed to enable and disable PMCs.
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.Ss x86 Architecture Specific API
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The
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.Fn pmc_get_msr
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function returns the processor model specific register number
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associated with
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.Fa pmc .
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Applications may use the x86
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.Ic RDPMC
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instruction to directly read the contents of the PMC.
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.Sh EVENT SPECIFIERS
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Event specifiers are strings comprising of an event name, followed by
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optional parameters modifying the semantics of the hardware event
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being probed.
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Event names are PMC architecture dependent, but the
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.Xr hwpmc 4
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library defines machine independent aliases for commonly used
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events.
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.Ss Event Name Aliases
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Event name aliases are CPU architecture independent names for commonly
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used events.
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The following aliases are known to this version of the
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.Xr pmc 3
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library:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Li branches
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Measure the number of branches retired.
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.It Li branch-mispredicts
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Measure the number of retired branches that were mispredicted.
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.It Li cycles
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Measure processor cycles.
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This event is implemented using the processor's Time Stamp Counter
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register.
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.It Li dc-misses
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Measure the number of data cache misses.
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.It Li ic-misses
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Measure the number of instruction cache misses.
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.It Li instructions
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Measure the number of instructions retired.
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.It Li interrupts
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Measure the number of interrupts seen.
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.El
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.Ss Time Stamp Counter (TSC)
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The timestamp counter is a monotonically non-decreasing counter that
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counts processor cycles.
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.Pp
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In the i386 architecture, this counter may
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be selected by requesting an event with event specifier
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.Dq Li tsc .
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The
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.Dq Li tsc
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event does not support any further qualifiers.
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It can only be allocated in system-wide counting mode,
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and is a read-only counter.
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Multiple processes are allowed to allocate the TSC.
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Once allocated, it may be read using the
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.Fn pmc_read
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function, or by using the RDTSC instruction.
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.Ss AMD (K7) PMCs
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These PMCs are present in the
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.Tn "AMD Athlon"
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series of CPUs and are documented in:
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.Rs
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.%B "AMD Athlon Processor x86 Code Optimization Guide"
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.%N "Publication No. 22007"
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.%D "February 2002"
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.%Q "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc."
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.Re
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.Pp
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Event specifiers for AMD K7 PMCs can have the following optional
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qualifiers:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Li count= Ns Ar value
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Configure the counter to increment only if the number of configured
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events measured in a cycle is greater than or equal to
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.Ar value .
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.It Li edge
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Configure the counter to only count negated-to-asserted transitions
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of the conditions expressed by the other qualifiers.
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In other words, the counter will increment only once whenever a given
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condition becomes true, irrespective of the number of clocks during
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which the condition remains true.
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.It Li inv
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Invert the sense of comparision when the
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.Dq Li count
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qualifier is present, making the counter to increment when the
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number of events per cycle is less than the value specified by
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the
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.Dq Li count
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qualifier.
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.It Li os
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Configure the PMC to count events happening at privilege level 0.
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.It Li unitmask= Ns Ar mask
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This qualifier is used to further qualify a select few events,
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.Dq Li k7-dc-refills-from-l2 ,
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.Dq Li k7-dc-refills-from-system
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and
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.Dq Li k7-dc-writebacks .
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Here
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.Ar mask
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is a string of the following characters optionally separated by
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.Ql +
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characters:
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.Pp
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|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
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.It Li m
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq Modified
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li o
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq Owner
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li e
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq Exclusive
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li s
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq Shared
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li i
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq Invalid
|
|
state.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If no
|
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.Dq Li unitmask
|
|
qualifier is specified, the default is to count events for caches
|
|
lines in any of the above states.
|
|
.It Li usr
|
|
Configure the PMC to count events occurring at privilege levels 1, 2
|
|
or 3.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If neither of the
|
|
.Dq Li os
|
|
or
|
|
.Dq Li usr
|
|
qualifiers were specified, the default is to enable both.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The event specifiers supported on AMD K7 PMCs are:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent
|
|
.It Li k7-dc-accesses
|
|
Count data cache accesses.
|
|
.It Li k7-dc-misses
|
|
Count data cache misses.
|
|
.It Li k7-dc-refills-from-l2 Op Li ,unitmask= Ns Ar mask
|
|
Count data cache refills from L2 cache.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using the
|
|
.Dq Li unitmask
|
|
qualifier.
|
|
.It Li k7-dc-refills-from-system Op Li ,unitmask= Ns Ar mask
|
|
Count data cache refills from system memory.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using the
|
|
.Dq Li unitmask
|
|
qualifier.
|
|
.It Li k7-dc-writebacks Op Li ,unitmask= Ns Ar mask
|
|
Count data cache writebacks.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using the
|
|
.Dq Li unitmask
|
|
qualifier.
|
|
.It Li k7-l1-dtlb-miss-and-l2-dtlb-hits
|
|
Count L1 DTLB misses and L2 DTLB hits.
|
|
.It Li k7-l1-and-l2-dtlb-misses
|
|
Count L1 and L2 DTLB misses.
|
|
.It Li k7-misaligned-references
|
|
Count misaligned data references.
|
|
.It Li k7-ic-fetches
|
|
Count instruction cache fetches.
|
|
.It Li k7-ic-misses
|
|
Count instruction cache misses.
|
|
.It Li k7-l1-itlb-misses
|
|
Count L1 ITLB misses that are L2 ITLB hits.
|
|
.It Li k7-l1-l2-itlb-misses
|
|
Count L1 (and L2) ITLB misses.
|
|
.It Li k7-retired-instructions
|
|
Count all retired instructions.
|
|
.It Li k7-retired-ops
|
|
Count retired ops.
|
|
.It Li k7-retired-branches
|
|
Count all retired branches (conditional, unconditional, exceptions
|
|
and interrupts).
|
|
.It Li k7-retired-branches-mispredicted
|
|
Count all misprediced retired branches.
|
|
.It Li k7-retired-taken-branches
|
|
Count retired taken branches.
|
|
.It Li k7-retired-taken-branches-mispredicted
|
|
Count mispredicted taken branches that were retired.
|
|
.It Li k7-retired-far-control-transfers
|
|
Count retired far control transfers.
|
|
.It Li k7-retired-resync-branches
|
|
Count retired resync branches (non control transfer branches).
|
|
.It Li k7-interrupts-masked-cycles
|
|
Count the number of cycles when the processor's
|
|
.Va IF
|
|
flag was zero.
|
|
.It Li k7-interrupts-masked-while-pending-cycles
|
|
Count the number of cycles interrupts were masked while pending due
|
|
to the processor's
|
|
.Va IF
|
|
flag being zero.
|
|
.It Li k7-hardware-interrupts
|
|
Count the number of taken hardware interrupts.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Ss AMD (K8) PMCs
|
|
These PMCs are present in the
|
|
.Tn "AMD Athlon64"
|
|
and
|
|
.Tn "AMD Opteron"
|
|
series of CPUs.
|
|
They are documented in:
|
|
.Rs
|
|
.%B "BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide for the AMD Athlon(tm) 64 and AMD Opteron Processors"
|
|
.%N "Publication No. 26094"
|
|
.%D "April 2004"
|
|
.%Q "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc."
|
|
.Re
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Event specifiers for AMD K8 PMCs can have the following optional
|
|
qualifiers:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent
|
|
.It Li count= Ns Ar value
|
|
Configure the counter to increment only if the number of configured
|
|
events measured in a cycle is greater than or equal to
|
|
.Ar value .
|
|
.It Li edge
|
|
Configure the counter to only count negated-to-asserted transitions
|
|
of the conditions expressed by the other fields.
|
|
In other words, the counter will increment only once whenever a given
|
|
condition becomes true, irrespective of the number of clocks during
|
|
which the condition remains true.
|
|
.It Li inv
|
|
Invert the sense of comparision when the
|
|
.Dq Li count
|
|
qualifier is present, making the counter to increment when the
|
|
number of events per cycle is less than the value specified by
|
|
the
|
|
.Dq Li count
|
|
qualifier.
|
|
.It Li mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Many event specifiers for AMD K8 PMCs need to be additionally
|
|
qualified using a mask qualifier.
|
|
These additional qualifiers are event-specific and are documented
|
|
along with their associated event specifiers below.
|
|
.It Li os
|
|
Configure the PMC to count events happening at privilege level 0.
|
|
.It Li usr
|
|
Configure the PMC to count events occurring at privilege levels 1, 2
|
|
or 3.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If neither of the
|
|
.Dq Li os
|
|
or
|
|
.Dq Li usr
|
|
qualifiers were specified, the default is to enable both.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The event specifiers supported on AMD K8 PMCs are:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent
|
|
.It Li k8-bu-cpu-clk-unhalted
|
|
Count the number of clock cycles when the CPU is not in the HLT or
|
|
STPCLK states.
|
|
.It Li k8-bu-fill-request-l2-miss Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count fill requests that missed in the L2 cache.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li dc-fill
|
|
Count data cache fill requests.
|
|
.It Li ic-fill
|
|
Count instruction cache fill requests.
|
|
.It Li tlb-reload
|
|
Count TLB reloads.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all types of requests.
|
|
.It Li k8-bu-internal-l2-request Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count internally generated requests to the L2 cache.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li cancelled
|
|
Count cancelled requests.
|
|
.It Li dc-fill
|
|
Count data cache fill requests.
|
|
.It Li ic-fill
|
|
Count instruction cache fill requests.
|
|
.It Li tag-snoop
|
|
Count tag snoop requests.
|
|
.It Li tlb-reload
|
|
Count TLB reloads.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all types of requests.
|
|
.It Li k8-dc-access
|
|
Count data cache accesses including microcode scratchpad accesses.
|
|
.It Li k8-dc-copyback Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count data cache copyback operations.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li exclusive
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq exclusive
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li invalid
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq invalid
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li modified
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq modified
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li owner
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq owner
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li shared
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq shared
|
|
state.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations for lines in all the
|
|
above states.
|
|
.It Li k8-dc-dcache-accesses-by-locks Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count data cache accesses by lock instructions.
|
|
This event is only available on processors of revision C or later
|
|
vintage.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li accesses
|
|
Count data cache accesses by lock instructions.
|
|
.It Li misses
|
|
Count data cache misses by lock instructions.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all accesses.
|
|
.It Li k8-dc-dispatched-prefetch-instructions Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of dispatched prefetch instructions.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li load
|
|
Count load operations.
|
|
.It Li nta
|
|
Count non-temporal operations.
|
|
.It Li store
|
|
Count store operations.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all operations.
|
|
.It Li k8-dc-l1-dtlb-miss-and-l2-dtlb-hit
|
|
Count L1 DTLB misses that are L2 DTLB hits.
|
|
.It Li k8-dc-l1-dtlb-miss-and-l2-dtlb-miss
|
|
Count L1 DTLB misses that are also misses in the L2 DTLB.
|
|
.It Li k8-dc-microarchitectural-early-cancel-of-an-access
|
|
Count microarchitectural early cancels of data cache accesses.
|
|
.It Li k8-dc-microarchitectural-late-cancel-of-an-access
|
|
Count microarchitectural late cancels of data cache accesses.
|
|
.It Li k8-dc-misaligned-data-reference
|
|
Count misaligned data references.
|
|
.It Li k8-dc-miss
|
|
Count data cache misses.
|
|
.It Li k8-dc-one-bit-ecc-error Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count one bit ECC errors found by the scrubber.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li scrubber
|
|
Count scrubber detected errors.
|
|
.It Li piggyback
|
|
Count piggyback scrubber errors.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count both kinds of errors.
|
|
.It Li k8-dc-refill-from-l2 Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count data cache refills from L2 cache.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li exclusive
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq exclusive
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li invalid
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq invalid
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li modified
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq modified
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li owner
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq owner
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li shared
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq shared
|
|
state.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations for lines in all the
|
|
above states.
|
|
.It Li k8-dc-refill-from-system Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count data cache refills from system memory.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li exclusive
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq exclusive
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li invalid
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq invalid
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li modified
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq modified
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li owner
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq owner
|
|
state.
|
|
.It Li shared
|
|
Count operations for lines in the
|
|
.Dq shared
|
|
state.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations for lines in all the
|
|
above states.
|
|
.It Li k8-fp-dispatched-fpu-ops Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of dispatched FPU ops.
|
|
This event is supported in revision B and later CPUs.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li add-pipe-excluding-junk-ops
|
|
Count add pipe ops excluding junk ops.
|
|
.It Li add-pipe-junk-ops
|
|
Count junk ops in the add pipe.
|
|
.It Li multiply-pipe-excluding-junk-ops
|
|
Count multiply pipe ops excluding junk ops.
|
|
.It Li multiply-pipe-junk-ops
|
|
Count junk ops in the multiply pipe.
|
|
.It Li store-pipe-excluding-junk-ops
|
|
Count store pipe ops excluding junk ops
|
|
.It Li store-pipe-junk-ops
|
|
Count junk ops in the store pipe.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all types of ops.
|
|
.It Li k8-fp-cycles-with-no-fpu-ops-retired
|
|
Count cycles when no FPU ops were retired.
|
|
This event is supported in revision B and later CPUs.
|
|
.It Li k8-fp-dispatched-fpu-fast-flag-ops
|
|
Count dispatched FPU ops that use the fast flag interface.
|
|
This event is supported in revision B and later CPUs.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-decoder-empty
|
|
Count cycles when there was nothing to dispatch (i.e., the decoder
|
|
was empty).
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-dispatch-stalls
|
|
Count all dispatch stalls.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-dispatch-stall-for-segment-load
|
|
Count dispatch stalls for segment loads.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-dispatch-stall-for-serialization
|
|
Count dispatch stalls for serialization.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-dispatch-stall-from-branch-abort-to-retire
|
|
Count dispatch stalls from branch abort to retiral.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-dispatch-stall-when-fpu-is-full
|
|
Count dispatch stalls when the FPU is full.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-dispatch-stall-when-ls-is-full
|
|
Count dispatch stalls when the load/store unit is full.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-dispatch-stall-when-reorder-buffer-is-full
|
|
Count dispatch stalls when the reorder buffer is full.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-dispatch-stall-when-reservation-stations-are-full
|
|
Count dispatch stalls when reservation stations are full.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-dispatch-stall-when-waiting-for-all-to-be-quiet
|
|
Count dispatch stalls when waiting for all to be quiet.
|
|
.\" XXX What does "waiting for all to be quiet" mean?
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-dispatch-stall-when-waiting-far-xfer-or-resync-branch-pending
|
|
Count dispatch stalls when a far control transfer or a resync branch
|
|
is pending.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-fpu-exceptions Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count FPU exceptions.
|
|
This event is supported in revision B and later CPUs.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li sse-and-x87-microtraps
|
|
Count SSE and x87 microtraps.
|
|
.It Li sse-reclass-microfaults
|
|
Count SSE reclass microfaults
|
|
.It Li sse-retype-microfaults
|
|
Count SSE retype microfaults
|
|
.It Li x87-reclass-microfaults
|
|
Count x87 reclass microfaults.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all types of exceptions.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-interrupts-masked-cycles
|
|
Count cycles when interrupts were masked (by CPU RFLAGS field IF was zero).
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-interrupts-masked-while-pending-cycles
|
|
Count cycles while interrupts were masked while pending (i.e., cycles
|
|
when INTR was asserted while CPU RFLAGS field IF was zero).
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-number-of-breakpoints-for-dr0
|
|
Count the number of breakpoints for DR0.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-number-of-breakpoints-for-dr1
|
|
Count the number of breakpoints for DR1.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-number-of-breakpoints-for-dr2
|
|
Count the number of breakpoints for DR2.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-number-of-breakpoints-for-dr3
|
|
Count the number of breakpoints for DR3.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-branches
|
|
Count retired branches including exceptions and interrupts.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-branches-mispredicted
|
|
Count mispredicted retired branches.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-far-control-transfers
|
|
Count retired far control transfers (which are always mispredicted).
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-fastpath-double-op-instructions Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count retired fastpath double op instructions.
|
|
This event is supported in revision B and later CPUs.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li low-op-pos-0
|
|
Count instructions with the low op in position 0.
|
|
.It Li low-op-pos-1
|
|
Count instructions with the low op in position 1.
|
|
.It Li low-op-pos-2
|
|
Count instructions with the low op in position 2.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all types of instructions.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-fpu-instructions Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count retired FPU instructions.
|
|
This event is supported in revision B and later CPUs.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li mmx-3dnow
|
|
Count MMX and 3DNow!\& instructions.
|
|
.It Li packed-sse-sse2
|
|
Count packed SSE and SSE2 instructions.
|
|
.It Li scalar-sse-sse2
|
|
Count scalar SSE and SSE2 instructions
|
|
.It Li x87
|
|
Count x87 instructions.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all types of instructions.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-near-returns
|
|
Count retired near returns.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-near-returns-mispredicted
|
|
Count mispredicted near returns.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-resyncs
|
|
Count retired resyncs (non-control transfer branches).
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-taken-hardware-interrupts
|
|
Count retired taken hardware interrupts.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-taken-branches
|
|
Count retired taken branches.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-taken-branches-mispredicted
|
|
Count retired taken branches that were mispredicted.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-taken-branches-mispredicted-by-addr-miscompare
|
|
Count retired taken branches that were mispredicted only due to an
|
|
address miscompare.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-uops
|
|
Count retired uops.
|
|
.It Li k8-fr-retired-x86-instructions
|
|
Count retired x86 instructions including exceptions and interrupts.
|
|
.It Li k8-ic-fetch
|
|
Count instruction cache fetches.
|
|
.It Li k8-ic-instruction-fetch-stall
|
|
Count cycles in stalls due to instruction fetch.
|
|
.It Li k8-ic-l1-itlb-miss-and-l2-itlb-hit
|
|
Count L1 ITLB misses that are L2 ITLB hits.
|
|
.It Li k8-ic-l1-itlb-miss-and-l2-itlb-miss
|
|
Count ITLB misses that miss in both L1 and L2 ITLBs.
|
|
.It Li k8-ic-microarchitectural-resync-by-snoop
|
|
Count microarchitectural resyncs caused by snoops.
|
|
.It Li k8-ic-miss
|
|
Count instruction cache misses.
|
|
.It Li k8-ic-refill-from-l2
|
|
Count instruction cache refills from L2 cache.
|
|
.It Li k8-ic-refill-from-system
|
|
Count instruction cache refills from system memory.
|
|
.It Li k8-ic-return-stack-hits
|
|
Count hits to the return stack.
|
|
.It Li k8-ic-return-stack-overflow
|
|
Count overflows of the return stack.
|
|
.It Li k8-ls-buffer2-full
|
|
Count load/store buffer2 full events.
|
|
.It Li k8-ls-locked-operation Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count locked operations.
|
|
For revision C and later CPUs, the following qualifiers are supported:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li cycles-in-request
|
|
Count the number of cycles in the lock request/grant stage.
|
|
.It Li cycles-to-complete
|
|
Count the number of cycles a lock takes to complete once it is
|
|
non-speculative and is the older load/store operation.
|
|
.It Li locked-instructions
|
|
Count the number of lock instructions executed.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count the number of lock instructions executed.
|
|
.It Li k8-ls-microarchitectural-late-cancel
|
|
Count microarchitectural late cancels of operations in the load/store
|
|
unit.
|
|
.It Li k8-ls-microarchitectural-resync-by-self-modifying-code
|
|
Count microarchitectural resyncs caused by self-modifying code.
|
|
.It Li k8-ls-microarchitectural-resync-by-snoop
|
|
Count microarchitectural resyncs caused by snoops.
|
|
.It Li k8-ls-retired-cflush-instructions
|
|
Count retired CFLUSH instructions.
|
|
.It Li k8-ls-retired-cpuid-instructions
|
|
Count retired CPUID instructions.
|
|
.It Li k8-ls-segment-register-load Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count segment register loads.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li cs
|
|
Count CS register loads.
|
|
.It Li ds
|
|
Count DS register loads.
|
|
.It Li es
|
|
Count ES register loads.
|
|
.It Li fs
|
|
Count FS register loads.
|
|
.It Li gs
|
|
Count GS register loads.
|
|
.\" .It Li hs
|
|
.\" Count HS register loads.
|
|
.\" XXX "HS" register?
|
|
.It Li ss
|
|
Count SS register loads.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all types of loads.
|
|
.It Li k8-nb-memory-controller-bypass-saturation Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count memory controller bypass counter saturation events.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li dram-controller-interface-bypass
|
|
Count DRAM controller interface bypass.
|
|
.It Li dram-controller-queue-bypass
|
|
Count DRAM controller queue bypass.
|
|
.It Li memory-controller-hi-pri-bypass
|
|
Count memory controller high priority bypasses.
|
|
.It Li memory-controller-lo-pri-bypass
|
|
Count memory controller low priority bypasses.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.It Li k8-nb-memory-controller-dram-slots-missed
|
|
Count memory controller DRAM command slots missed (in MemClks).
|
|
.It Li k8-nb-memory-controller-page-access-event Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count memory controller page access events.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li page-conflict
|
|
Count page conflicts.
|
|
.It Li page-hit
|
|
Count page hits.
|
|
.It Li page-miss
|
|
Count page misses.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all types of events.
|
|
.It Li k8-nb-memory-controller-page-table-overflow
|
|
Count memory control page table overflow events.
|
|
.It Li k8-nb-probe-result Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count probe events.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li probe-hit
|
|
Count all probe hits.
|
|
.It Li probe-hit-dirty-no-memory-cancel
|
|
Count probe hits without memory cancels.
|
|
.It Li probe-hit-dirty-with-memory-cancel
|
|
Count probe hits with memory cancels.
|
|
.It Li probe-miss
|
|
Count probe misses.
|
|
.El
|
|
.It Li k8-nb-sized-commands Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count sized commands issued.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li nonpostwrszbyte
|
|
.It Li nonpostwrszdword
|
|
.It Li postwrszbyte
|
|
.It Li postwrszdword
|
|
.It Li rdszbyte
|
|
.It Li rdszdword
|
|
.It Li rdmodwr
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all types of commands.
|
|
.It Li k8-nb-memory-controller-turnaround Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count memory control turnaround events.
|
|
This event may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.\" XXX doc is unclear whether these are cycle counts or event counts
|
|
.It Li dimm-turnaround
|
|
Count DIMM turnarounds.
|
|
.It Li read-to-write-turnaround
|
|
Count read to write turnarounds.
|
|
.It Li write-to-read-turnaround
|
|
Count write to read turnarounds.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all types of events.
|
|
.It Li k8-nb-ht-bus0-bandwidth Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.It Li k8-nb-ht-bus1-bandwidth Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.It Li k8-nb-ht-bus2-bandwidth Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count events on the HyperTransport(tm) buses.
|
|
These events may be further qualified using
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li buffer-release
|
|
Count buffer release messages sent.
|
|
.It Li command
|
|
Count command messages sent.
|
|
.It Li data
|
|
Count data messages sent.
|
|
.It Li nop
|
|
Count nop messages sent.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all types of messages.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Ss Intel P6 PMCS
|
|
Intel P6 PMCs are present in Intel
|
|
.Tn "Pentium Pro" ,
|
|
.Tn "Pentium II" ,
|
|
.Tn Celeron ,
|
|
.Tn "Pentium III"
|
|
and
|
|
.Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
processors.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
These CPUs have two counters.
|
|
Some events may only be used on specific counters and some events are
|
|
defined only on specific processor models.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
These PMCs are documented in
|
|
.Rs
|
|
.%B "IA-32 Intel(R) Architecture Software Developer's Manual"
|
|
.%T "Volume 3: System Programming Guide"
|
|
.%N "Order Number 245472-012"
|
|
.%D 2003
|
|
.%Q "Intel Corporation"
|
|
.Re
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Some of these events are affected by processor errata described in
|
|
.Rs
|
|
.%B "Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Processor Specification Update"
|
|
.%N "Document Number: 244453-054"
|
|
.%D "April 2005"
|
|
.%Q "Intel Corporation"
|
|
.Re
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Event specifiers for Intel P6 PMCs can have the following common
|
|
qualifiers:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent
|
|
.It Li cmask= Ns Ar value
|
|
Configure the PMC to increment only if the number of configured
|
|
events measured in a cycle is greater than or equal to
|
|
.Ar value .
|
|
.It Li edge
|
|
Configure the PMC to count the number of deasserted to asserted
|
|
transitions of the conditions expressed by the other qualifiers.
|
|
If specified, the counter will increment only once whenever a
|
|
condition becomes true, irrespective of the number of clocks during
|
|
which the condition remains true.
|
|
.It Li inv
|
|
Invert the sense of comparision when the
|
|
.Dq Li cmask
|
|
qualifier is present, making the counter increment when the number of
|
|
events per cycle is less than the value specified by the
|
|
.Dq Li cmask
|
|
qualifier.
|
|
.It Li os
|
|
Configure the PMC to count events happening at processor privilege
|
|
level 0.
|
|
.It Li umask= Ns Ar value
|
|
This qualifier is used to further qualify the event selected (see
|
|
below).
|
|
.It Li usr
|
|
Configure the PMC to count events occurring at privilege levels 1, 2
|
|
or 3.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If neither of the
|
|
.Dq Li os
|
|
or
|
|
.Dq Li usr
|
|
qualifiers are specified, the default is to enable both.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The event specifiers supported by Intel P6 PMCs are:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent
|
|
.It Li p6-baclears
|
|
Count the number of times a static branch prediction was made by the
|
|
branch decoder because the BTB did not have a prediction.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-bac-missp-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of branch instructions executed that where
|
|
mispredicted at the Front End (BAC).
|
|
.It Li p6-br-bogus
|
|
Count the number of bogus branches.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-call-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of call instructions executed.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-call-missp-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of call instructions executed that were mispredicted.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-cnd-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of conditional branch instructions executed.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-cnd-missp-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of conditional branch instructions executed that were
|
|
mispredicted.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-ind-call-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of indirect call instructions executed.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-ind-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of indirect branch instructions executed.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-ind-missp-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of indirect branch instructions executed that were
|
|
mispredicted.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-inst-decoded
|
|
Count the number of branch instructions decoded.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-inst-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of branch instructions executed but necessarily retired.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-inst-retired
|
|
Count the number of branch instructions retired.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-miss-pred-retired
|
|
Count the number of mispredicted branch instructions retired.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-miss-pred-taken-ret
|
|
Count the number of taken mispredicted branches retired.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-missp-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of branch instructions executed that were
|
|
mispredicted at execution.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-ret-bac-missp-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of return instructions executed that were
|
|
mispredicted at the Front End (BAC).
|
|
.It Li p6-br-ret-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of return instructions executed.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-ret-missp-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of return instructions executed that were
|
|
mispredicted at execution.
|
|
.It Li p6-br-taken-retired
|
|
Count the number of taken branches retired.
|
|
.It Li p6-btb-misses
|
|
Count the number of branches for which the BTB did not produce a
|
|
prediction.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-bnr-drv
|
|
Count the number of bus clock cycles during which this processor is
|
|
driving the BNR# pin.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-data-rcv
|
|
Count the number of bus clock cycles during which this processor is
|
|
receiving data.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-drdy-clocks Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of clocks during which DRDY# is asserted.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified, and comprises one of the
|
|
following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-hit-drv
|
|
Count the number of bus clock cycles during which this processor is
|
|
driving the HIT# pin.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-hitm-drv
|
|
Count the number of bus clock cycles during which this processor is
|
|
driving the HITM# pin.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-lock-clocks Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of clocks during with LOCK# is asserted on the
|
|
external system bus.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises one of the following
|
|
keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-req-outstanding
|
|
Count the number of bus requests outstanding in any given cycle.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-snoop-stall
|
|
Count the number of clock cycles during which the bus is snoop stalled.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-tran-any Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of completed bus transactions of any kind.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises one of the following
|
|
keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-tran-brd Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of burst read transactions.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises one of the following
|
|
keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-tran-burst Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of completed burst transactions.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises one of the following
|
|
keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-tran-def Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of completed deferred transactions.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises one of the following
|
|
keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-tran-ifetch Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of completed instruction fetch transactions.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises one of the following
|
|
keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-tran-inval Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of completed invalidate transactions.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises one of the following
|
|
keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-tran-mem Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of completed memory transactions.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises one of the following
|
|
keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-tran-pwr Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of completed partial write transactions.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises one of the following
|
|
keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-tran-rfo Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of completed read-for-ownership transactions.
|
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An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises one of the following
|
|
keywords:
|
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.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
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.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-trans-io Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of completed I/O transactions.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises one of the following
|
|
keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-trans-p Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of completed partial transactions.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises one of the following
|
|
keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-bus-trans-wb Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of completed write-back transactions.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises one of the following
|
|
keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count transactions generated by any agent on the bus.
|
|
.It Li self
|
|
Count transactions generated by this processor.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations generated by this processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-cpu-clk-unhalted
|
|
Count the number of cycles during with the processor was not halted.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of cycles during with the processor was not halted
|
|
and not in a thermal trip.
|
|
.It Li p6-cycles-div-busy
|
|
Count the number of cycles during which the divider is busy and cannot
|
|
accept new divides.
|
|
This event is only allocated on counter 0.
|
|
.It Li p6-cycles-in-pending-and-masked
|
|
Count the number of processor cycles for which interrupts were
|
|
disabled and interrupts were pending.
|
|
.It Li p6-cycles-int-masked
|
|
Count the number of processor cycles for which interrupts were
|
|
disabled.
|
|
.It Li p6-data-mem-refs
|
|
Count all loads and all stores using any memory type, including
|
|
internal retries.
|
|
Each part of a split store is counted separately.
|
|
.It Li p6-dcu-lines-in
|
|
Count the total lines allocated in the data cache unit.
|
|
.It Li p6-dcu-m-lines-in
|
|
Count the number of M state lines allocated in the data cache unit.
|
|
.It Li p6-dcu-m-lines-out
|
|
Count the number of M state lines evicted from the data cache unit.
|
|
.It Li p6-dcu-miss-outstanding
|
|
Count the weighted number of cycles while a data cache unit miss is
|
|
outstanding, incremented by the number of outstanding cache misses at
|
|
any time.
|
|
.It Li p6-div
|
|
Count the number of floating point multiplies.
|
|
This event is only allocated on counter 1.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-esp-uops
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the total number of micro-ops.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-est-trans Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of
|
|
.Tn "Enhanced Intel SpeedStep"
|
|
transitions.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified, and can be one of the
|
|
following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li all
|
|
Count all transitions.
|
|
.It Li freq
|
|
Count only frequency transitions.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all transitions.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-fused-uops-ret Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of retired fused micro-ops.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified, and may be one of the
|
|
following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li all
|
|
Count all fused micro-ops.
|
|
.It Li loadop
|
|
Count only load and op micro-ops.
|
|
.It Li stdsta
|
|
Count only STD/STA micro-ops.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all fused micro-ops.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-kni-comp-inst-ret
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium III"
|
|
Count the number of SSE computational instructions retired.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified, and comprises one of the
|
|
following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li packed-and-scalar
|
|
Count packed and scalar operations.
|
|
.It Li scalar
|
|
Count scalar operations only.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count packed and scalar operations.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-kni-inst-retired Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium III"
|
|
Count the number of SSE instructions retired.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified, and comprises one of the
|
|
following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li packed-and-scalar
|
|
Count packed and scalar operations.
|
|
.It Li scalar
|
|
Count scalar operations only.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count packed and scalar operations.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-kni-pref-dispatched Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium III"
|
|
Count the number of SSE prefetch or weakly ordered instructions
|
|
dispatched (including speculative prefetches).
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified, and comprises one of the
|
|
following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li nta
|
|
Count non-temporal prefetches.
|
|
.It Li t1
|
|
Count prefetches to L1.
|
|
.It Li t2
|
|
Count prefetches to L2.
|
|
.It Li wos
|
|
Count weakly ordered stores.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count non-temporal prefetches.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-kni-pref-miss Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium III"
|
|
Count the number of prefetch or weakly ordered instructions that miss
|
|
all caches.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified, and comprises one of the
|
|
following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li nta
|
|
Count non-temporal prefetches.
|
|
.It Li t1
|
|
Count prefetches to L1.
|
|
.It Li t2
|
|
Count prefetches to L2.
|
|
.It Li wos
|
|
Count weakly ordered stores.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count non-temporal prefetches.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-pref-rqsts-dn
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of downward prefetches issued.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-pref-rqsts-up
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of upward prefetches issued.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-simd-instr-retired
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of retired
|
|
.Tn MMX
|
|
instructions.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-sse-sse2-comp-inst-retired Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of computational SSE instructions retired.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and can be one of the
|
|
following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li sse-packed-single
|
|
Count SSE packed-single instructions.
|
|
.It Li sse-scalar-single
|
|
Count SSE scalar-single instructions.
|
|
.It Li sse2-packed-double
|
|
Count SSE2 packed-double instructions.
|
|
.It Li sse2-scalar-double
|
|
Count SSE2 scalar-double instructions.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count SSE packed-single instructions.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-sse-sse2-inst-retired Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifer
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of SSE instructions retired.
|
|
An additional qualifier can be specified, and can be one of the
|
|
following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li sse-packed-single
|
|
Count SSE packed-single instructions.
|
|
.It Li sse-packed-single-scalar-single
|
|
Count SSE packed-single and scalar-single instructions.
|
|
.It Li sse2-packed-double
|
|
Count SSE2 packed-double instructions.
|
|
.It Li sse2-scalar-double
|
|
Count SSE2 scalar-double instructions.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count SSE packed-single instructions.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-synch-uops
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of sync micro-ops.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-thermal-trip
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the duration or occurrences of thermal trips.
|
|
Use the
|
|
.Dq Li edge
|
|
qualifier to count occurrences of thermal trips.
|
|
.It Li p6-emon-unfusion
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count the number of unfusion events in the reorder buffer.
|
|
.It Li p6-flops
|
|
Count the number of computational floating point operations retired.
|
|
This event is only allocated on counter 0.
|
|
.It Li p6-fp-assist
|
|
Count the number of floating point exceptions handled by microcode.
|
|
This event is only allocated on counter 1.
|
|
.It Li p6-fp-comps-ops-exe
|
|
Count the number of computation floating point operations executed.
|
|
This event is only allocated on counter 0.
|
|
.It Li p6-fp-mmx-trans Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium II" , Tn "Pentium III"
|
|
Count the number of transitions between MMX and floating-point
|
|
instructions.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified, and comprises one of the
|
|
following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li mmxtofp
|
|
Count transitions from MMX instructions to floating-point instructions.
|
|
.It Li fptommx
|
|
Count transitions from floating-point instructions to MMX instructions.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count MMX to floating-point transitions.
|
|
.It Li p6-hw-int-rx
|
|
Count the number of hardware interrupts received.
|
|
.It Li p6-ifu-fetch
|
|
Count the number of instruction fetches, both cacheable and non-cacheable.
|
|
.It Li p6-ifu-fetch-miss
|
|
Count the number of instruction fetch misses (i.e., those that produce
|
|
memory accesses).
|
|
.It Li p6-ifu-mem-stall
|
|
Count the number of cycles instruction fetch is stalled for any reason.
|
|
.It Li p6-ild-stall
|
|
Count the number of cycles the instruction length decoder is stalled.
|
|
.It Li p6-inst-decoded
|
|
Count the number of instructions decoded.
|
|
.It Li p6-inst-retired
|
|
Count the number of instructions retired.
|
|
.It Li p6-itlb-miss
|
|
Count the number of instruction TLB misses.
|
|
.It Li p6-l2-ads
|
|
Count the number of L2 address strobes.
|
|
.It Li p6-l2-dbus-busy
|
|
Count the number of cycles during which the L2 cache data bus was busy.
|
|
.It Li p6-l2-dbus-busy-rd
|
|
Count the number of cycles during which the L2 cache data bus was busy
|
|
transferring read data from L2 to the processor.
|
|
.It Li p6-l2-ifetch Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of L2 instruction fetches.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises a list of the following
|
|
keywords separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li e
|
|
Count operations affecting E (exclusive) state lines.
|
|
.It Li i
|
|
Count operations affecting I (invalid) state lines.
|
|
.It Li m
|
|
Count operations affecting M (modified) state lines.
|
|
.It Li s
|
|
Count operations affecting S (shared) state lines.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations affecting all (MESI) state lines.
|
|
.It Li p6-l2-ld Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of L2 data loads.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises a list of the following
|
|
keywords separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li both
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count both hardware-prefetched lines and non-hardware-prefetched lines.
|
|
.It Li e
|
|
Count operations affecting E (exclusive) state lines.
|
|
.It Li hw
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count hardware-prefetched lines only.
|
|
.It Li i
|
|
Count operations affecting I (invalid) state lines.
|
|
.It Li m
|
|
Count operations affecting M (modified) state lines.
|
|
.It Li nonhw
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Exclude hardware-prefetched lines.
|
|
.It Li s
|
|
Count operations affecting S (shared) state lines.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default on processors other than
|
|
.Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
processors is to count operations affecting all (MESI) state lines.
|
|
The default on
|
|
.Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
processors is to count both hardware-prefetched and
|
|
non-hardware-prefetch operations on all (MESI) state lines.
|
|
.Pq Errata
|
|
This event is affected by processor errata E53.
|
|
.It Li p6-l2-lines-in Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of L2 lines allocated.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises a list of the following
|
|
keywords separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li both
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count both hardware-prefetched lines and non-hardware-prefetched lines.
|
|
.It Li e
|
|
Count operations affecting E (exclusive) state lines.
|
|
.It Li hw
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count hardware-prefetched lines only.
|
|
.It Li i
|
|
Count operations affecting I (invalid) state lines.
|
|
.It Li m
|
|
Count operations affecting M (modified) state lines.
|
|
.It Li nonhw
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Exclude hardware-prefetched lines.
|
|
.It Li s
|
|
Count operations affecting S (shared) state lines.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default on processors other than
|
|
.Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
processors is to count operations affecting all (MESI) state lines.
|
|
The default on
|
|
.Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
processors is to count both hardware-prefetched and
|
|
non-hardware-prefetch operations on all (MESI) state lines.
|
|
.Pq Errata
|
|
This event is affected by processor errata E45.
|
|
.It Li p6-l2-lines-out Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of L2 lines evicted.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises a list of the following
|
|
keywords separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li both
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count both hardware-prefetched lines and non-hardware-prefetched lines.
|
|
.It Li e
|
|
Count operations affecting E (exclusive) state lines.
|
|
.It Li hw
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
Count hardware-prefetched lines only.
|
|
.It Li i
|
|
Count operations affecting I (invalid) state lines.
|
|
.It Li m
|
|
Count operations affecting M (modified) state lines.
|
|
.It Li nonhw
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M" only
|
|
Exclude hardware-prefetched lines.
|
|
.It Li s
|
|
Count operations affecting S (shared) state lines.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default on processors other than
|
|
.Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
processors is to count operations affecting all (MESI) state lines.
|
|
The default on
|
|
.Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
processors is to count both hardware-prefetched and
|
|
non-hardware-prefetch operations on all (MESI) state lines.
|
|
.Pq Errata
|
|
This event is affected by processor errata E45.
|
|
.It Li p6-l2-m-lines-inm
|
|
Count the number of modified lines allocated in L2 cache.
|
|
.It Li p6-l2-m-lines-outm Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the number of L2 M-state lines evicted.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium M"
|
|
On these processors an additional qualifier may be specified and
|
|
comprises a list of the following keywords separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li both
|
|
Count both hardware-prefetched lines and non-hardware-prefetched lines.
|
|
.It Li hw
|
|
Count hardware-prefetched lines only.
|
|
.It Li nonhw
|
|
Exclude hardware-prefetched lines.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count both hardware-prefetched and
|
|
non-hardware-prefetch operations.
|
|
.Pq Errata
|
|
This event is affected by processor errata E53.
|
|
.It Li p6-l2-rqsts Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Count the total number of L2 requests.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises a list of the following
|
|
keywords separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li e
|
|
Count operations affecting E (exclusive) state lines.
|
|
.It Li i
|
|
Count operations affecting I (invalid) state lines.
|
|
.It Li m
|
|
Count operations affecting M (modified) state lines.
|
|
.It Li s
|
|
Count operations affecting S (shared) state lines.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations affecting all (MESI) state lines.
|
|
.It Li p6-l2-st
|
|
Count the number of L2 data stores.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises a list of the following
|
|
keywords separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li e
|
|
Count operations affecting E (exclusive) state lines.
|
|
.It Li i
|
|
Count operations affecting I (invalid) state lines.
|
|
.It Li m
|
|
Count operations affecting M (modified) state lines.
|
|
.It Li s
|
|
Count operations affecting S (shared) state lines.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations affecting all (MESI) state lines.
|
|
.It Li p6-ld-blocks
|
|
Count the number of load operations delayed due to store buffer blocks.
|
|
.It Li p6-misalign-mem-ref
|
|
Count the number of misaligned data memory references (crossing a 64
|
|
bit boundary).
|
|
.It Li p6-mmx-assist
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium II" , Tn "Pentium III"
|
|
Count the number of MMX assists executed.
|
|
.It Li p6-mmx-instr-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn Celeron , Tn "Pentium II"
|
|
Count the number of MMX instructions executed, except MOVQ and MOVD
|
|
stores from register to memory.
|
|
.It Li p6-mmx-instr-ret
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium II"
|
|
Count the number of MMX instructions retired.
|
|
.It Li p6-mmx-instr-type-exec Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium II" , Tn "Pentium III"
|
|
Count the number of MMX instructions executed.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified and comprises a list of
|
|
the following keywords separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li pack
|
|
Count MMX pack operation instructions.
|
|
.It Li packed-arithmetic
|
|
Count MMX packed arithmetic instructions.
|
|
.It Li packed-logical
|
|
Count MMX packed logical instructions.
|
|
.It Li packed-multiply
|
|
Count MMX packed multiply instructions.
|
|
.It Li packed-shift
|
|
Count MMX packed shift instructions.
|
|
.It Li unpack
|
|
Count MMX unpack operation instructions.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all operations.
|
|
.It Li p6-mmx-sat-instr-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium II" , Tn "Pentium III"
|
|
Count the number of MMX saturating instructions executed.
|
|
.It Li p6-mmx-uops-exec
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium II" , Tn "Pentium III"
|
|
Count the number of MMX micro-ops executed.
|
|
.It Li p6-mul
|
|
Count the number of floating point multiplies.
|
|
This event is only allocated on counter 1.
|
|
.It Li p6-partial-rat-stalls
|
|
Count the number of cycles or events for partial stalls.
|
|
.It Li p6-resource-stalls
|
|
Count the number of cycles there was a resource related stall of any kind.
|
|
.It Li p6-ret-seg-renames
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium II" , Tn "Pentium III"
|
|
Count the number of segment register rename events retired.
|
|
.It Li p6-sb-drains
|
|
Count the number of cycles the store buffer is draining.
|
|
.It Li p6-seg-reg-renames Op Li ,umask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium II" , Tn "Pentium III"
|
|
Count the number of segment register renames.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified, and comprises a list of the
|
|
following keywords separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li ds
|
|
Count renames for segment register DS.
|
|
.It Li es
|
|
Count renames for segment register ES.
|
|
.It Li fs
|
|
Count renames for segment register FS.
|
|
.It Li gs
|
|
Count renames for segment register GS.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations affecting all segment registers.
|
|
.It Li p6-seg-rename-stalls
|
|
.Pq Tn "Pentium II" , Tn "Pentium III"
|
|
Count the number of segment register renaming stalls.
|
|
An additional qualifier may be specified, and comprises a list of the
|
|
following keywords separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li ds
|
|
Count stalls for segment register DS.
|
|
.It Li es
|
|
Count stalls for segment register ES.
|
|
.It Li fs
|
|
Count stalls for segment register FS.
|
|
.It Li gs
|
|
Count stalls for segment register GS.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count operations affecting all the segment registers.
|
|
.It Li p6-segment-reg-loads
|
|
Count the number of segment register loads.
|
|
.It Li p6-uops-retired
|
|
Count the number of micro-ops retired.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Ss Intel P4 PMCS
|
|
Intel P4 PMCs are present in Intel
|
|
.Tn "Pentium 4"
|
|
and
|
|
.Tn Xeon
|
|
processors.
|
|
These PMCs are documented in
|
|
.Rs
|
|
.%B "IA-32 Intel(R) Architecture Software Developer's Manual"
|
|
.%T "Volume 3: System Programming Guide"
|
|
.%N "Order Number 245472-012"
|
|
.%D 2003
|
|
.%Q "Intel Corporation"
|
|
.Re
|
|
Further information about using these PMCs may be found in
|
|
.Rs
|
|
.%B "IA-32 Intel(R) Architecture Optimization Guide"
|
|
.%D 2003
|
|
.%N "Order Number 248966-009"
|
|
.%Q "Intel Corporation"
|
|
.Re
|
|
Some of these events are affected by processor errata described in
|
|
.Rs
|
|
.%B "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Processor Specification Update"
|
|
.%N "Document Number: 249199-059"
|
|
.%D "April 2005"
|
|
.%Q "Intel Corporation"
|
|
.Re
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Event specifiers for Intel P4 PMCs can have the following common
|
|
qualifiers:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent
|
|
.It Li active= Ns Ar choice
|
|
(On P4 HTT CPUs) Filter event counting based on which logical
|
|
processors are active.
|
|
The allowed values of
|
|
.Ar choice
|
|
are:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li any
|
|
Count when either logical processor is active.
|
|
.It Li both
|
|
Count when both logical processors are active.
|
|
.It Li none
|
|
Count only when neither logical processor is active.
|
|
.It Li single
|
|
Count only when one logical processor is active.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is
|
|
.Dq Li both .
|
|
.It Li cascade
|
|
Configure the PMC to cascade onto its partner.
|
|
See
|
|
.Sx "Cascading P4 PMCs"
|
|
below for more information.
|
|
.It Li edge
|
|
Configure the counter to count false to true transitions of the threshold
|
|
comparision output.
|
|
This qualifier only takes effect if a threshold qualifier has also been
|
|
specified.
|
|
.It Li complement
|
|
Configure the counter to increment only when the event count seen is
|
|
less than the threshold qualifier value specified.
|
|
.It Li mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
Many event specifiers for Intel P4 PMCs need to be additionally
|
|
qualified using a mask qualifier.
|
|
The allowed syntax for these qualifiers is event specific and is
|
|
described along with the events.
|
|
.It Li os
|
|
Configure the PMC to count when the CPL of the processor is 0.
|
|
.It Li precise
|
|
Select precise event based sampling.
|
|
Precise sampling is supported by the hardware for a limited set of
|
|
events.
|
|
.It Li tag= Ns Ar value
|
|
Configure the PMC to tag the internal uop selected by the other
|
|
fields in this event specifier with value
|
|
.Ar value .
|
|
This feature is used when cascading PMCs.
|
|
.It Li threshold= Ns Ar value
|
|
Configure the PMC to increment only when the event counts seen are
|
|
greater than the specified threshold value
|
|
.Ar value .
|
|
.It Li usr
|
|
Configure the PMC to count when the CPL of the processor is 1, 2 or 3.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If neither of the
|
|
.Dq Li os
|
|
or
|
|
.Dq Li usr
|
|
qualifiers are specified, the default is to enable both.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
On Intel Pentium 4 processors with HTT, events are
|
|
divided into two classes:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It "TS Events"
|
|
are those where hardware can differentiate between events
|
|
generated on one logical processor from those generated on the
|
|
other.
|
|
.It "TI Events"
|
|
are those where hardware cannot differentiate between events
|
|
generated by multiple logical processors in a package.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Only TS events are allowed for use with process-mode PMCs on
|
|
Pentium-4/HTT CPUs.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The event specifiers supported by Intel P4 PMCs are:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent
|
|
.It Li p4-128bit-mmx-uop Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count integer SIMD SSE2 instructions that operate on 128 bit SIMD
|
|
operands.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can take the following value (which is also the default):
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li all
|
|
Count all uops operating on 128 bit SIMD integer operands in memory or
|
|
XMM register.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If an instruction contains more than one 128 bit MMX uop, then each
|
|
uop will be counted.
|
|
.It Li p4-64bit-mmx-uop Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count MMX instructions that operate on 64 bit SIMD operands.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can take the following value (which is also the default):
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li all
|
|
Count all uops operating on 64 bit SIMD integer operands in memory or
|
|
in MMX registers.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If an instruction contains more than one 64 bit MMX uop, then each
|
|
uop will be counted.
|
|
.It Li p4-b2b-cycles
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count back-to-back bys cycles.
|
|
Further documentation for this event is unavailable.
|
|
.It Li p4-bnr
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count bus-not-ready conditions.
|
|
Further documentation for this event is unavailable.
|
|
.It Li p4-bpu-fetch-request Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count instruction fetch requests qualified by additional
|
|
flags specified in
|
|
.Ar qualifier .
|
|
At this point only one flag is supported:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li tcmiss
|
|
Count trace cache lookup misses.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default qualifier is also
|
|
.Dq Li mask=tcmiss .
|
|
.It Li p4-branch-retired Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Counts retired branches.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
is a list of the following
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated strings:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li mmnp
|
|
Count branches not-taken and predicted.
|
|
.It Li mmnm
|
|
Count branches not-taken and mis-predicted.
|
|
.It Li mmtp
|
|
Count branches taken and predicted.
|
|
.It Li mmtm
|
|
Count branches taken and mis-predicted.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default qualifier counts all four kinds of branches.
|
|
.It Li p4-bsq-active-entries Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count the number of entries (clipped at 15) currently active in the
|
|
BSQ.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following flags:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li req-type0 , Li req-type1
|
|
Forms a 2-bit number used to select the request type encoding:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li 0
|
|
reads excluding read invalidate
|
|
.It Li 1
|
|
read invalidates
|
|
.It Li 2
|
|
writes other than writebacks
|
|
.It Li 3
|
|
writebacks
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Bit
|
|
.Dq Li req-type1
|
|
is the MSB for this two bit number.
|
|
.It Li req-len0 , Li req-len1
|
|
Forms a two-bit number that specifies the request length encoding:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li 0
|
|
0 chunks
|
|
.It Li 1
|
|
1 chunk
|
|
.It Li 3
|
|
8 chunks
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Bit
|
|
.Dq Li req-len1
|
|
is the MSB for this two bit number.
|
|
.It Li req-io-type
|
|
Count requests that are input or output requests.
|
|
.It Li req-lock-type
|
|
Count requests that lock the bus.
|
|
.It Li req-lock-cache
|
|
Count requests that lock the cache.
|
|
.It Li req-split-type
|
|
Count requests that is a bus 8-byte chunk that is split across an
|
|
8-byte boundary.
|
|
.It Li req-dem-type
|
|
Count requests that are demand (not prefetches) if set.
|
|
Count requests that are prefetches if not set.
|
|
.It Li req-ord-type
|
|
Count requests that are ordered.
|
|
.It Li mem-type0 , Li mem-type1 , Li mem-type2
|
|
Forms a 3-bit number that specifies a memory type encoding:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li 0
|
|
UC
|
|
.It Li 1
|
|
USWC
|
|
.It Li 4
|
|
WT
|
|
.It Li 5
|
|
WP
|
|
.It Li 6
|
|
WB
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Bit
|
|
.Dq Li mem-type2
|
|
is the MSB of this 3-bit number.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default qualifier has all the above bits set.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Edge triggering using the
|
|
.Dq Li edge
|
|
qualifier should not be used with this event when counting cycles.
|
|
.It Li p4-bsq-allocation Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count allocations in the bus sequence unit according to the flags
|
|
specified in
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following flags:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li req-type0 , Li req-type1
|
|
Forms a 2-bit number used to select the request type encoding:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li 0
|
|
reads excluding read invalidate
|
|
.It Li 1
|
|
read invalidates
|
|
.It Li 2
|
|
writes other than writebacks
|
|
.It Li 3
|
|
writebacks
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Bit
|
|
.Dq Li req-type1
|
|
is the MSB for this two bit number.
|
|
.It Li req-len0 , Li req-len1
|
|
Forms a two-bit number that specifies the request length encoding:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li 0
|
|
0 chunks
|
|
.It Li 1
|
|
1 chunk
|
|
.It Li 3
|
|
8 chunks
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Bit
|
|
.Dq Li req-len1
|
|
is the MSB for this two bit number.
|
|
.It Li req-io-type
|
|
Count requests that are input or output requests.
|
|
.It Li req-lock-type
|
|
Count requests that lock the bus.
|
|
.It Li req-lock-cache
|
|
Count requests that lock the cache.
|
|
.It Li req-split-type
|
|
Count requests that is a bus 8-byte chunk that is split across an
|
|
8-byte boundary.
|
|
.It Li req-dem-type
|
|
Count requests that are demand (not prefetches) if set.
|
|
Count requests that are prefetches if not set.
|
|
.It Li req-ord-type
|
|
Count requests that are ordered.
|
|
.It Li mem-type0 , Li mem-type1 , Li mem-type2
|
|
Forms a 3-bit number that specifies a memory type encoding:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li 0
|
|
UC
|
|
.It Li 1
|
|
USWC
|
|
.It Li 4
|
|
WT
|
|
.It Li 5
|
|
WP
|
|
.It Li 6
|
|
WB
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Bit
|
|
.Dq Li mem-type2
|
|
is the MSB of this 3-bit number.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default qualifier has all the above bits set.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
This event is usually used along with the
|
|
.Dq Li edge
|
|
qualifier to avoid multiple counting.
|
|
.It Li p4-bsq-cache-reference Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count cache references as seen by the bus unit (2nd or 3rd level
|
|
cache references).
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated list of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li rd-2ndl-hits
|
|
Count 2nd level cache hits in the shared state.
|
|
.It Li rd-2ndl-hite
|
|
Count 2nd level cache hits in the exclusive state.
|
|
.It Li rd-2ndl-hitm
|
|
Count 2nd level cache hits in the modified state.
|
|
.It Li rd-3rdl-hits
|
|
Count 3rd level cache hits in the shared state.
|
|
.It Li rd-3rdl-hite
|
|
Count 3rd level cache hits in the exclusive state.
|
|
.It Li rd-3rdl-hitm
|
|
Count 3rd level cache hits in the modified state.
|
|
.It Li rd-2ndl-miss
|
|
Count 2nd level cache misses.
|
|
.It Li rd-3rdl-miss
|
|
Count 3rd level cache misses.
|
|
.It Li wr-2ndl-miss
|
|
Count write-back lookups from the data access cache that miss the 2nd
|
|
level cache.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all the above events.
|
|
.It Li p4-execution-event Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count the retirement of tagged uops selected through the execution
|
|
tagging mechanism.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can contain the following strings separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li nbogus0 , Li nbogus1 , Li nbogus2 , Li nbogus3
|
|
The marked uops are not bogus.
|
|
.It Li bogus0 , Li bogus1 , Li bogus2 , Li bogus3
|
|
The marked uops are bogus.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
This event requires additional (upstream) events to be allocated to
|
|
perform the desired uop tagging.
|
|
The default is to set all the above flags.
|
|
This event can be used for precise event based sampling.
|
|
.It Li p4-front-end-event Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count the retirement of tagged uops selected through the front-end
|
|
tagging mechanism.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can contain the following strings separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li nbogus
|
|
The marked uops are not bogus.
|
|
.It Li bogus
|
|
The marked uops are bogus.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
This event requires additional (upstream) events to be allocated to
|
|
perform the desired uop tagging.
|
|
The default is to select both kinds of events.
|
|
This event can be used for precise event based sampling.
|
|
.It Li p4-fsb-data-activity Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count each DBSY or DRDY event selected by qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags .
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following flags:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li drdy-drv
|
|
Count when this processor is driving data onto the bus.
|
|
.It Li drdy-own
|
|
Count when this processor is reading data from the bus.
|
|
.It Li drdy-other
|
|
Count when data is on the bus but not being sampled by this processor.
|
|
.It Li dbsy-drv
|
|
Count when this processor reserves the bus for use in the next cycle
|
|
in order to drive data.
|
|
.It Li dbsy-own
|
|
Count when some agent reserves the bus for use in the next bus cycle
|
|
to drive data that this processor will sample.
|
|
.It Li dbsy-other
|
|
Count when some agent reserves the bus for use in the next bus cycle
|
|
to drive data that this processor will not sample.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Flags
|
|
.Dq Li drdy-own
|
|
and
|
|
.Dq Li drdy-other
|
|
are mutually exclusive.
|
|
Flags
|
|
.Dq Li dbsy-own
|
|
and
|
|
.Dq Li dbsy-other
|
|
are mutually exclusive.
|
|
The default value for
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
is
|
|
.Dq Li drdy-drv+drdy-own+dbsy-drv+dbsy-own .
|
|
.It Li p4-global-power-events Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count cycles during which the processor is not stopped.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can take the following value (which is also the default):
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li running
|
|
Count cycles when the processor is active.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.It Li p4-instr-retired Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count instructions retired during a clock cycle.
|
|
Qualifer
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
comprises of the following strings separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li nbogusntag
|
|
Count non-bogus instructions that are not tagged.
|
|
.It Li nbogustag
|
|
Count non-bogus instructions that are tagged.
|
|
.It Li bogusntag
|
|
Count bogus instructions that are not tagged.
|
|
.It Li bogustag
|
|
Count bogus instructions that are tagged.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default qualifier counts all the above kinds of instructions.
|
|
.It Li p4-ioq-active-entries Xo
|
|
.Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Op Li ,busreqtype= Ns Ar req-type
|
|
.Xc
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count the number of entries (clipped at 15) in the IOQ that are
|
|
active.
|
|
The event masks are specified by qualifier
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
and
|
|
.Ar req-type .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following flags:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li all-read
|
|
Count read entries.
|
|
.It Li all-write
|
|
Count write entries.
|
|
.It Li mem-uc
|
|
Count entries accessing uncacheable memory.
|
|
.It Li mem-wc
|
|
Count entries accessing write-combining memory.
|
|
.It Li mem-wt
|
|
Count entries accessing write-through memory.
|
|
.It Li mem-wp
|
|
Count entries accessing write-protected memory
|
|
.It Li mem-wb
|
|
Count entries accessing write-back memory.
|
|
.It Li own
|
|
Count store requests driven by the processor (i.e., not by other
|
|
processors or by DMA).
|
|
.It Li other
|
|
Count store requests driven by other processors or by DMA.
|
|
.It Li prefetch
|
|
Include hardware and software prefetch requests in the count.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default value for
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
is to enable all the above flags.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The
|
|
.Ar req-type
|
|
qualifier is a 5-bit number can be additionally used to select a
|
|
specific bus request type.
|
|
The default is 0.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The
|
|
.Dq Li edge
|
|
qualifier should not be used when counting cycles with this event.
|
|
The exact behaviour of this event depends on the processor revision.
|
|
.It Li p4-ioq-allocation Xo
|
|
.Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Op Li ,busreqtype= Ns Ar req-type
|
|
.Xc
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count various types of transactions on the bus matching the flags set
|
|
in
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
and
|
|
.Ar req-type .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following flags:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li all-read
|
|
Count read entries.
|
|
.It Li all-write
|
|
Count write entries.
|
|
.It Li mem-uc
|
|
Count entries accessing uncacheable memory.
|
|
.It Li mem-wc
|
|
Count entries accessing write-combining memory.
|
|
.It Li mem-wt
|
|
Count entries accessing write-through memory.
|
|
.It Li mem-wp
|
|
Count entries accessing write-protected memory
|
|
.It Li mem-wb
|
|
Count entries accessing write-back memory.
|
|
.It Li own
|
|
Count store requests driven by the processor (i.e., not by other
|
|
processors or by DMA).
|
|
.It Li other
|
|
Count store requests driven by other processors or by DMA.
|
|
.It Li prefetch
|
|
Include hardware and software prefetch requests in the count.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default value for
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
is to enable all the above flags.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The
|
|
.Ar req-type
|
|
qualifier is a 5-bit number can be additionally used to select a
|
|
specific bus request type.
|
|
The default is 0.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The
|
|
.Dq Li edge
|
|
qualifier is normally used with this event to prevent multiple
|
|
counting.
|
|
The exact behaviour of this event depends on the processor revision.
|
|
.It Li p4-itlb-reference Op mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count translations using the intruction translation look-aside
|
|
buffer.
|
|
The
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
argument is a list of the following strings separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li hit
|
|
Count ITLB hits.
|
|
.It Li miss
|
|
Count ITLB misses.
|
|
.It Li hit-uc
|
|
Count uncacheable ITLB hits.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If no
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
is specified the default is to count all the three kinds of ITLB
|
|
translations.
|
|
.It Li p4-load-port-replay Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count replayed events at the load port.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
can take on one value:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li split-ld
|
|
Count split loads.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default value for
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
is
|
|
.Dq Li split-ld .
|
|
.It Li p4-mispred-branch-retired Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count mispredicted IA-32 branch instructions.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can take the following value (which is also the default):
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li nbogus
|
|
Count non-bogus retired branch instructions.
|
|
.El
|
|
.It Li p4-machine-clear Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count the number of pipeline clears seen by the processor.
|
|
Qualifer
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
is a list of the following strings separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li clear
|
|
Count for a portion of the many cycles when the machine is being
|
|
cleared for any reason.
|
|
.It Li moclear
|
|
Count machine clears due to memory ordering issues.
|
|
.It Li smclear
|
|
Count machine clears due to self-modifying code.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Use qualifier
|
|
.Dq Li edge
|
|
to get a count of occurrences of machine clears.
|
|
The default qualifier is
|
|
.Dq Li clear .
|
|
.It Li p4-memory-cancel Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar event-list
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count the cancelling of various kinds of requests in the data cache
|
|
address control unit of the CPU.
|
|
The qualifier
|
|
.Ar event-list
|
|
is a list of the following strings separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li st-rb-full
|
|
Requests cancelled because no store request buffer was available.
|
|
.It Li 64k-conf
|
|
Requests that conflict due to 64K aliasing.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If
|
|
.Ar event-list
|
|
is not specified, then the default is to count both kinds of events.
|
|
.It Li p4-memory-complete Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar event-list
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count the completion of load split, store split, uncacheable split and
|
|
uncacheable load operations selected by qualifier
|
|
.Ar event-list .
|
|
The qualifier
|
|
.Ar event-list
|
|
is a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated list of the following flags:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li lsc
|
|
Count load splits completed, excluding loads from uncacheable or
|
|
write-combining areas.
|
|
.It Li ssc
|
|
Count any split stores completed.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count both kinds of operations.
|
|
.It Li p4-mob-load-replay Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count load replays triggered by the memory order buffer.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
can be a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated list of the following flags:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li no-sta
|
|
Count replays because of unknown store addresses.
|
|
.It Li no-std
|
|
Count replays because of unknown store data.
|
|
.It Li partial-data
|
|
Count replays because of partially overlapped data accesses between
|
|
load and store operations.
|
|
.It Li unalgn-addr
|
|
Count replays because of mismatches in the lower 4 bits of load and
|
|
store operations.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default qualifier is
|
|
.Ar no-sta+no-std+partial-data+unalgn-addr .
|
|
.It Li p4-packed-dp-uop Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count packed double-precision uops.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can take the following value (which is also the default):
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li all
|
|
Count all uops operating on packed double-precision operands.
|
|
.El
|
|
.It Li p4-packed-sp-uop Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count packed single-precision uops.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can take the following value (which is also the default):
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li all
|
|
Count all uops operating on packed single-precision operands.
|
|
.El
|
|
.It Li p4-page-walk-type Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count page walks performed by the page miss handler.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
can be a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated list of the following keywords:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li dtmiss
|
|
Count page walks for data TLB misses.
|
|
.It Li itmiss
|
|
Count page walks for instruction TLB misses.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default value for
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
is
|
|
.Dq Li dtmiss+itmiss .
|
|
.It Li p4-replay-event Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count the retirement of tagged uops selected through the replay
|
|
tagging mechanism.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
contains a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated set of the following strings:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li nbogus
|
|
The marked uops are not bogus.
|
|
.It Li bogus
|
|
The marked uops are bogus.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
This event requires additional (upstream) events to be allocated to
|
|
perform the desired uop tagging.
|
|
The default qualifier counts both kinds of uops.
|
|
This event can be used for precise event based sampling.
|
|
.It Li p4-resource-stall Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count the occurrence or latency of stalls in the allocator.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can take the following value (which is also the default):
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li sbfull
|
|
A stall due to the lack of store buffers.
|
|
.El
|
|
.It Li p4-response
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count different types of responses.
|
|
Further documentation on this event is not available.
|
|
.It Li p4-retired-branch-type Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count branches retired.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
contains a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated list of strings:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li conditional
|
|
Count conditional jumps.
|
|
.It Li call
|
|
Count direct and indirect call branches.
|
|
.It Li return
|
|
Count return branches.
|
|
.It Li indirect
|
|
Count returns, indirect calls or indirect jumps.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default qualifier counts all the above branch types.
|
|
.It Li p4-retired-mispred-branch-type Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count mispredicted branches retired.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
contains a
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
separated list of strings:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li conditional
|
|
Count conditional jumps.
|
|
.It Li call
|
|
Count indirect call branches.
|
|
.It Li return
|
|
Count return branches.
|
|
.It Li indirect
|
|
Count returns, indirect calls or indirect jumps.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default qualifier counts all the above branch types.
|
|
.It Li p4-scalar-dp-uop Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count the number of scalar double-precision uops.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can take the following value (which is also the default):
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li all
|
|
Count the number of scalar double-precision uops.
|
|
.El
|
|
.It Li p4-scalar-sp-uop Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count the number of scalar single-precision uops.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can take the following value (which is also the default):
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li all
|
|
Count all uops operating on scalar single-precision operands.
|
|
.El
|
|
.It Li p4-snoop
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count snoop traffic.
|
|
Further documentation on this event is not available.
|
|
.It Li p4-sse-input-assist Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count the number of times an assist is required to handle problems
|
|
with the operands for SSE and SSE2 operations.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can take the following value (which is also the default):
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li all
|
|
Count assists for all SSE and SSE2 uops.
|
|
.El
|
|
.It Li p4-store-port-replay Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count events replayed at the store port.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
can take on one value:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li split-st
|
|
Count split stores.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default value for
|
|
.Ar qualifier
|
|
is
|
|
.Dq Li split-st .
|
|
.It Li p4-tc-deliver-mode Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar qualifier
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count the duration in cycles of operating modes of the trace cache and
|
|
decode engine.
|
|
The desired operating mode is selected by
|
|
.Ar qualifier ,
|
|
which is a list of the following strings separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li DD
|
|
Both logical processors are in deliver mode.
|
|
.It Li DB
|
|
Logical processor 0 is in deliver mode while logical processor 1 is in
|
|
build mode.
|
|
.It Li DI
|
|
Logical processor 0 is in deliver mode while logical processor 1 is
|
|
halted, or in machine clear, or transitioning to a long microcode
|
|
flow.
|
|
.It Li BD
|
|
Logical processor 0 is in build mode while logical processor 1 is in
|
|
deliver mode.
|
|
.It Li BB
|
|
Both logical processors are in build mode.
|
|
.It Li BI
|
|
Logical processor 0 is in build mode while logical processor 1 is
|
|
halted, or in machine clear or transitioning to a long microcode
|
|
flow.
|
|
.It Li ID
|
|
Logical processor 0 is halted, or in machine clear or transitioning to
|
|
a long microcode flow while logical processor 1 is in deliver mode.
|
|
.It Li IB
|
|
Logical processor 0 is halted, or in machine clear or transitioning to
|
|
a long microcode flow while logical processor 1 is in build mode.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If there is only one logical processor in the processor package then
|
|
the qualifier for logical processor 1 is ignored.
|
|
If no qualifier is specified, the default qualifier is
|
|
.Dq Li DD+DB+DI+BD+BB+BI+ID+IB .
|
|
.It Li p4-tc-ms-xfer Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count the number of times uop delivery changed from the trace cache to
|
|
MS ROM.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can take the following value (which is also the default):
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li cisc
|
|
Count TC to MS transfers.
|
|
.El
|
|
.It Li p4-uop-queue-writes Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count the number of valid uops written to the uop queue.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
is a list of the following strings, separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li from-tc-build
|
|
Count uops being written from the trace cache in build mode.
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.It Li from-tc-deliver
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|
Count uops being written from the trace cache in deliver mode.
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.It Li from-rom
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|
Count uops being written from microcode ROM.
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.El
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|
.Pp
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|
The default qualifier counts all the above kinds of uops.
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.It Li p4-uop-type Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
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.Pq "TS event"
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This event is used in conjunction with the front-end at-retirement
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mechanism to tag load and store uops.
|
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Qualifer
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|
.Ar flags
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|
comprises the following strings separated by
|
|
.Ql +
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|
characters:
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|
.Pp
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|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
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.It Li tagloads
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|
Mark uops that are load operations.
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|
.It Li tagstores
|
|
Mark uops that are store operations.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default qualifier counts both kinds of uops.
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|
.It Li p4-uops-retired Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
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|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count uops retired during a clock cycle.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
comprises the following strings separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
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|
.Pp
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|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
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.It Li nbogus
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|
Count marked uops that are not bogus.
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|
.It Li bogus
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|
Count marked uops that are bogus.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default qualifier counts both kinds of uops.
|
|
.It Li p4-wc-buffer Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count write-combining buffer operations.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
contains the following strings separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li wcb-evicts
|
|
WC buffer evictions due to any cause.
|
|
.It Li wcb-full-evict
|
|
WC buffer evictions due to no WC buffer being available.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default qualifer counts both kinds of evictions.
|
|
.It Li p4-x87-assist Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TS event"
|
|
Count the retirement of x87 instructions that required special
|
|
handling.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
contains the following strings separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li fpsu
|
|
Count instructions that saw an FP stack underflow.
|
|
.It Li fpso
|
|
Count instructions that saw an FP stack overflow.
|
|
.It Li poao
|
|
Count instructions that saw an x87 output overflow.
|
|
.It Li poau
|
|
Count instructions that saw an x87 output underflow.
|
|
.It Li prea
|
|
Count instructions that needed an x87 input assist.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default qualifier counts all the above types of instruction
|
|
retirements.
|
|
.It Li p4-x87-fp-uop Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count x87 floating-point uops.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
can take the following value (which is also the default):
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li all
|
|
Count all x87 floating-point uops.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If an instruction contains more than one x87 floating-point uops, then
|
|
all x87 floating-point uops will be counted.
|
|
This event does not count x87 floating-point data movement operations.
|
|
.It Li p4-x87-simd-moves-uop Op Li ,mask= Ns Ar flags
|
|
.Pq "TI event"
|
|
Count each x87 FPU, MMX, SSE, or SSE2 uops that load data or store
|
|
data or perform register-to-register moves.
|
|
This event does not count integer move uops.
|
|
Qualifier
|
|
.Ar flags
|
|
may contain the following keywords separated by
|
|
.Ql +
|
|
characters:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
|
|
.It Li allp0
|
|
Count all x87 and SIMD store and move uops.
|
|
.It Li allp2
|
|
Count all x87 and SIMD load uops.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default is to count all uops.
|
|
.Pq Errata
|
|
This event may be affected by processor errata N43.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Ss "Cascading P4 PMCs"
|
|
PMC cascading support is currently poorly implemented.
|
|
While individual event counters may be allocated with a
|
|
.Dq Li cascade
|
|
qualifier, the current API does not offer the ability
|
|
to name and allocate all the resources needed for a
|
|
cascaded event counter pair in a single operation.
|
|
.Ss "Precise Event Based Sampling"
|
|
Support for precise event based sampling is currently
|
|
unimplemented in
|
|
.Xr hwpmc 4 .
|
|
.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
|
|
On the i386 architecture,
|
|
.Fx
|
|
has historically allowed the use of the RDTSC instruction from
|
|
user-mode (i.e., at a processor CPL of 3) by any process.
|
|
This behaviour is preserved by
|
|
.Xr hwpmc 4 .
|
|
.Sh RETURN VALUES
|
|
The
|
|
.Fn pmc_name_of_capability ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_name_of_class ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_name_of_cputype ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_name_of_disposition ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_name_of_event ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_name_of_mode ,
|
|
and
|
|
.Fn pmc_name_of_state
|
|
functions return a pointer to the human readable form of their argument.
|
|
These pointers may point to statically allocated storage and must
|
|
not be passed to
|
|
.Fn free .
|
|
In case of an error, these functions return
|
|
.Dv NULL
|
|
and set the global variable
|
|
.Va errno .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The functions
|
|
.Fn pmc_ncpu
|
|
and
|
|
.Fn pmc_npmc
|
|
return the number of CPUs and number of PMCs configured respectively;
|
|
in case of an error they return the value
|
|
\-1
|
|
and set the global variable
|
|
.Va errno .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
All other functions return the value
|
|
0
|
|
if successful; otherwise the value
|
|
\-1
|
|
is returned and the global variable
|
|
.Va errno
|
|
is set to indicate the error.
|
|
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
|
|
The interface between the
|
|
.Xr pmc 3
|
|
library and the
|
|
.Xr hwpmc 4
|
|
driver is intended to be private to the implementation and may
|
|
change.
|
|
In order to ease forward compatibility with future versions of the
|
|
.Xr hwpmc 4
|
|
driver, applications are urged to dynamically link with the
|
|
.Xr pmc 3
|
|
library.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The
|
|
.Xr pmc 3
|
|
API is
|
|
.Ud
|
|
.Sh ERRORS
|
|
A call to
|
|
.Fn pmc_init
|
|
may fail with the following errors in addition to those returned by
|
|
.Xr modfind 2 ,
|
|
.Xr modstat 2
|
|
and
|
|
.Xr hwpmc 4 :
|
|
.Bl -tag -width Er
|
|
.It Bq Er ENXIO
|
|
An unknown CPU type was encountered during initialization.
|
|
.It Bq Er EPROGMISMATCH
|
|
The version number of the
|
|
.Xr hwpmc 4
|
|
kernel module did not match that compiled into the
|
|
.Xr pmc 3
|
|
library.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
A call to
|
|
.Fn pmc_capabilities ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_name_of_capability ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_name_of_disposition ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_name_of_state ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_name_of_event ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_name_of_mode
|
|
.Fn pmc_name_of_class
|
|
and
|
|
.Fn pmc_width
|
|
may fail with the following error:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width Er
|
|
.It Bq Er EINVAL
|
|
An invalid argument was passed to the function.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
A call to
|
|
.Fn pmc_cpuinfo
|
|
or
|
|
.Fn pmc_ncpu
|
|
may fail with the following error:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width Er
|
|
.It Bq Er ENXIO
|
|
The
|
|
.Xr pmc 3
|
|
has not been initialized.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
A call to
|
|
.Fn pmc_npmc
|
|
may fail with the following errors:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width Er
|
|
.It Bq Er EINVAL
|
|
The argument passed in was out of range.
|
|
.It Bq Er ENXIO
|
|
The
|
|
.Xr pmc 3
|
|
library has not been initialized.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
A call to
|
|
.Fn pmc_pmcinfo
|
|
may fail with the following errors, in addition to those returned by
|
|
.Xr hwpmc 4 :
|
|
.Bl -tag -width Er
|
|
.It Bq Er ENXIO
|
|
The
|
|
.Xr pmc 3
|
|
library is not yet initialized.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
A call to
|
|
.Fn pmc_allocate
|
|
may fail with the following errors, in addition to those returned by
|
|
.Xr hwpmc 4 :
|
|
.Bl -tag -width Er
|
|
.It Bq Er EINVAL
|
|
The
|
|
.Fa mode
|
|
argument passed in had an illegal value, or the event specification
|
|
.Fa ctrspec
|
|
was unrecognized for this CPU type.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Calls to
|
|
.Fn pmc_attach ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_configure_logfile ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_detach ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_disable ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_enable ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_get_driver_stats ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_get_msr ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_read ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_release ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_rw ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_set ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_start ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_stop ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_write ,
|
|
and
|
|
.Fn pmc_writelog
|
|
may fail with the errors described in
|
|
.Xr hwpmc 4 .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If a log file was configured using
|
|
.Fn pmc_configure_logfile
|
|
and the
|
|
.Xr hwpmc 4
|
|
driver encountered an error while logging data to it, then
|
|
logging will be stopped and a subsequent call to
|
|
.Fn pmc_flush_logfile
|
|
will fail with the error code seen by the
|
|
.Xr hwpmc 4
|
|
driver.
|
|
.Sh SEE ALSO
|
|
.Xr modfind 2 ,
|
|
.Xr modstat 2 ,
|
|
.Xr calloc 3 ,
|
|
.Xr pmclog 3 ,
|
|
.Xr hwpmc 4 ,
|
|
.Xr pmccontrol 8 ,
|
|
.Xr pmcstat 8
|
|
.Sh HISTORY
|
|
The
|
|
.Xr pmc 3
|
|
library first appeared in
|
|
.Fx 6.0 .
|
|
.Sh BUGS
|
|
The information returned by
|
|
.Fn pmc_cpuinfo ,
|
|
.Fn pmc_ncpu
|
|
and possibly
|
|
.Fn pmc_npmc
|
|
should really be available all the time, through a better designed
|
|
interface and not just when
|
|
.Xr hwpmc 4
|
|
is present in the kernel.
|