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259065 07-Dec-2013 gjb

- Copy stable/10 (r259064) to releng/10.0 as part of the
10.0-RELEASE cycle.
- Update __FreeBSD_version [1]
- Set branch name to -RC1

[1] 10.0-CURRENT __FreeBSD_version value ended at '55', so
start releng/10.0 at '100' so the branch is started with
a value ending in zero.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


255164 03-Sep-2013 jhibbits

Refactor PowerPC hwpmc(4) driver into generic and specific. More refactoring
will likely be done as more drivers are added, since AIM-compatible processors
have similar PMC configuration logic.


233628 28-Mar-2012 fabient

Add software PMC support.

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


211690 23-Aug-2010 imp

MFtbemd:

Use MACHINE_CPUARCH in preference to MACHINE_ARCH. The former is the
source code location of the machine, the latter the binary output. In
general, we want to use MACHINE_CPUARCH instead of MACHINE_ARCH unless
we're tesitng for a specific target. The isn't even moot for
i386/amd64 where there's momemntum towards a MACHINE_CPUARCH == x86,
although a specific cleanup for that likely would be needed...


209991 13-Jul-2010 nwhitehorn

Make kernel modules build correctly on 64-bit PowerPC.


206089 02-Apr-2010 fabient

- Support for uncore counting events: one fixed PMC with the uncore
domain clock, 8 programmable PMC.
- Westmere based CPU (Xeon 5600, Corei7 980X) support.
- New man pages with events list for core and uncore.
- Updated Corei7 events with Intel 253669-033US December 2009 doc.
There is some removed events in the documentation, they have been
kept in the code but documented in the man page as obsolete.
- Offcore response events can be setup with rsp token.

Sponsored by: NETASQ


185363 27-Nov-2008 jkoshy

- Add support for PMCs in Intel CPUs of Family 6, model 0xE (Core Solo
and Core Duo), models 0xF (Core2), model 0x17 (Core2Extreme) and
model 0x1C (Atom).

In these CPUs, the actual numbers, kinds and widths of PMCs present
need to queried at run time. Support for specific "architectural"
events also needs to be queried at run time.

Model 0xE CPUs support programmable PMCs, subsequent CPUs
additionally support "fixed-function" counters.

- Use event names that are close to vendor documentation, taking in
account that:
- events with identical semantics on two or more CPUs in this family
can have differing names in vendor documentation,
- identical vendor event names may map to differing events across
CPUs,
- each type of CPU supports a different subset of measurable
events.

Fixed-function and programmable counters both use the same vendor
names for events. The use of a class name prefix ("iaf-" or
"iap-" respectively) permits these to be distinguished.

- In libpmc, refactor pmc_name_of_event() into a public interface
and an internal helper function, for use by log handling code.

- Minor code tweaks: staticize a global, freshen a few comments.

Tested by: gnn


184802 09-Nov-2008 jkoshy

- Separate PMC class dependent code from other kinds of machine
dependencies. A 'struct pmc_classdep' structure describes operations
on PMCs; 'struct pmc_mdep' contains one or more 'struct pmc_classdep'
structures depending on the CPU in question.

Inside PMC class dependent code, row indices are relative to the
PMCs supported by the PMC class; MI code in "hwpmc_mod.c" translates
global row indices before invoking class dependent operations.

- Augment the OP_GETCPUINFO request with the number of PMCs present
in a PMC class.

- Move code common to Intel CPUs to file "hwpmc_intel.c".

- Move TSC handling to file "hwpmc_tsc.c".


176435 21-Feb-2008 ru

Remove WARNS from here and compile with default kernel flags.


160762 27-Jul-2006 marcel

Remove Alpha remnants.


147191 09-Jun-2005 jkoshy

MFP4:

- Implement sampling modes and logging support in hwpmc(4).

- Separate MI and MD parts of hwpmc(4) and allow sharing of
PMC implementations across different architectures.
Add support for P4 (EMT64) style PMCs to the amd64 code.

- New pmcstat(8) options: -E (exit time counts) -W (counts
every context switch), -R (print log file).

- pmc(3) API changes, improve our ability to keep ABI compatibility
in the future. Add more 'alias' names for commonly used events.

- bug fixes & documentation.


145607 28-Apr-2005 jkoshy

Use the new path (post repo-copy) to our sources.


145256 19-Apr-2005 jkoshy

Bring a working snapshot of hwpmc(4), its associated libraries, userland utilities
and documentation into -CURRENT.

Bump FreeBSD_version.

Reviewed by: alc, jhb (kernel changes)