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.Dd February 26, 2013 .Dt PMC.SOFT 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm pmc.soft .Nd measurements using software based events .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libpmc .Sh SYNOPSIS n pmc.h .Sh DESCRIPTION Software events are used to collect various source of software events. .Ss PMC Features 16 sampling counters using software events based on various sources. These PMCs support the following capabilities: l -column "PMC_CAP_INTERRUPT" "Support" t Em Capability Ta Em Support t PMC_CAP_CASCADE Ta No t PMC_CAP_EDGE Ta No t PMC_CAP_INTERRUPT Ta Yes t PMC_CAP_INVERT Ta No t PMC_CAP_READ Ta Yes t PMC_CAP_PRECISE Ta No t PMC_CAP_SYSTEM Ta Yes t PMC_CAP_TAGGING Ta No t PMC_CAP_THRESHOLD Ta No t PMC_CAP_USER Ta Yes t PMC_CAP_WRITE Ta Yes .El .Ss Event Qualifiers There is no supported event qualifier.
p The event specifiers supported by software are: l -tag -width indent t Li CLOCK.HARD Hard clock ticks. t Li CLOCK.STAT Stat clock ticks. t Li CLOCK.PROF Profiling clock ticks. t Li LOCK.FAILED Lock acquisition failed. t Li PAGE_FAULT.ALL All page fault type. t Li PAGE_FAULT.READ Read page fault. t Li PAGE_FAULT.WRITE Write page fault. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr pmc 3 , .Xr pmc.atom 3 , .Xr pmc.core 3 , .Xr pmc.iaf 3 , .Xr pmc.ucf 3 , .Xr pmc.k7 3 , .Xr pmc.k8 3 , .Xr pmc.p4 3 , .Xr pmc.p5 3 , .Xr pmc.p6 3 , .Xr pmc.corei7 3 , .Xr pmc.corei7uc 3 , .Xr pmc.westmereuc 3 , .Xr pmc.tsc 3 , .Xr pmc_cpuinfo 3 , .Xr pmclog 3 , .Xr hwpmc 4 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm pmc library first appeared in .Fx 6.0 . .Sh AUTHORS The .Lb libpmc library was written by .An "Joseph Koshy" .Aq jkoshy@FreeBSD.org . Software PMC was written by .An "Fabien Thomas" .Aq fabient@FreeBSD.org .