Add COMPATIBILITY and HISTORY sections. Fix an -mdoc error.

Cross-reference pmclog(3).

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Joseph Koshy 2005-07-21 06:21:52 +00:00
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@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ The
driver supports the use of hardware PMCs for counting or for
sampling:
.Bl -tag -width ".Em Counting"
.It Em Counting
In counting modes, the PMCs count hardware events.
These counts are retrievable using the
.Dv PMC_OP_PMCREAD
@ -500,6 +501,16 @@ The value for tunable
.Va kern.hwpmc.nsamples
was negative or greater than 65535.
.El
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
The
.Nm
driver is
.Ud
The API and ABI documented in this manual page may change in
the future.
The recommended method of accessing this driver is using the
.Xr pmc 3
API.
.Sh ERRORS
A command issued to the
.Nm
@ -685,12 +696,18 @@ driver.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kenv 1 ,
.Xr pmc 3 ,
.Xr pmclog 3 ,
.Xr kgmon 8 ,
.Xr kldload 8 ,
.Xr pmccontrol 8 ,
.Xr pmcstat 8 ,
.Xr sysctl 8 ,
.Xr p_candebug 9
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Fx 6.0 .
.Sh BUGS
The driver samples the state of the kernel's logical processor support
at the time of initialization (i.e., at module load time).