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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: extend performance counter support on x86 Intel CPUs Modern Intel CPUs have 3 "fixed-function" performance counters, which count these hardware events: Instr_Retired.Any CPU_CLK_Unhalted.Core CPU_CLK_Unhalted.Ref Add support for them to the performance counters subsystem. Their use is transparent to user-space: the counter scheduler is extended to automatically recognize the cases where a fixed-function PMC can be utilized instead of a generic PMC. In such cases the generic PMC is kept available for more counters. The above fixed-function events map to these generic counter hw events: PERF_COUNT_INSTRUCTIONS PERF_COUNT_CPU_CYCLES PERF_COUNT_BUS_CYCLES (The 'bus' cycles are in reality often CPU-ish cycles, just with a fixed frequency.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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