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New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting. This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is with known tools like pmcstat(8). Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on instructions. Sponsored by: NETASQ MFC after: 1 month
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd October 4, 2008
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.Dt PMC.TSC 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm pmc.tsc
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.Nd measurements using the i386 timestamp counter
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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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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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In the i386 architecture, the timestamp counter is a monotonically
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non-decreasing counter that counts processor cycles.
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.Pp
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This counter may be selected specifying an event specifier
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.Dq Li tsc
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to
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.Xr pmc_allocate 3 .
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The TSC is a read-only counter that may only be allocated in
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system-wide counting mode.
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The
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.Dq Li tsc
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event does not support further event qualifiers.
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.Pp
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Multiple processes are allowed to allocate the TSC.
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Once allocated, the TSC may be read using the
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.Fn pmc_read
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function, or by using the
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.Li RDTSC
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instruction.
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.Ss Event Name Aliases
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The alias
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.Dq Li cycles
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maps to the TSC.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr pmc 3 ,
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.Xr pmc.atom 3 ,
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.Xr pmc.core 3 ,
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.Xr pmc.core2 3 ,
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.Xr pmc.iaf 3 ,
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.Xr pmc.k7 3 ,
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.Xr pmc.k8 3 ,
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.Xr pmc.p4 3 ,
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.Xr pmc.p5 3 ,
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.Xr pmc.p6 3 ,
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.Xr pmc.soft 3 ,
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.Xr pmclog 3 ,
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.Xr hwpmc 4
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm pmc
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library first appeared in
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.Fx 6.0 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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The
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.Lb libpmc
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library was written by
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.An "Joseph Koshy"
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.Aq jkoshy@FreeBSD.org .
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