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# 272461 02-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

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


# 233321 22-Mar-2012 jkoshy

Correct a function prototype.

Submitted by: "Anders Magnusson" <ragge at ludd.ltu.se>, via joel


# 226514 18-Oct-2011 fabient

Add a flush of the current PMC log buffer before displaying the next top.

As the underlying block is 4KB if the PMC throughput is low the measurement
will be reported on the next tick. pmcstat(8) use the modified flush API to
reclaim current buffer before displaying next top.

MFC after: 1 month


# 190395 24-Mar-2009 fabient

Allow compile from c++ for libpmc

Approved by: jkoshy (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days


# 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.


# 145774 01-May-2005 jkoshy

Add convenience APIs pmc_width() and pmc_capabilities() to -lpmc.
Have pmcstat(8) and pmccontrol(8) use these APIs.

Return PMC class-related constants (PMC widths and capabilities)
with the OP GETCPUINFO call leaving OP PMCINFO to return only the
dynamic information associated with a PMC (i.e., whether enabled,
owner pid, reload count etc.).

Allow pmc_read() (i.e., OPS PMCRW) on active self-attached PMCs to
get upto-date values from hardware since we can guarantee that the
hardware is running the correct PMC at the time of the call.

Bug fixes:
- (x86 class processors) Fix a bug that prevented an RDPMC
instruction from being recognized as permitted till after the
attached process had context switched out and back in again after
a pmc_start() call.

Tighten the rules for using RDPMC class instructions: a GETMSR
OP is now allowed only after an OP ATTACH has been done by the
PMC's owner to itself. OP GETMSR is not allowed for PMCs that
track descendants, for PMCs attached to processes other than
their owner processes.

- (P4/HTT processors only) Fix a bug that caused the MI and MD
layers to get out of sync. Add a new MD operation 'get_config()'
as part of this fix.

- Allow multiple system-mode PMCs at the same row-index but on
different CPUs to be allocated.

- Reject allocation of an administratively disabled PMC.

Misc. code cleanups and refactoring. Improve a few comments.


# 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)