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PMC_CAPABILITIES(3)	 BSD Library Functions Manual	   PMC_CAPABILITIES(3)

NAME
     pmc_capabilities, pmc_cpuinfo, pmc_ncpu, pmc_npmc, pmc_pmcinfo, pmc_width
     — retrieve information about performance monitoring counters

LIBRARY
     Performance Counters Library (libpmc, -lpmc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <pmc.h>

     int
     pmc_capabilities(pmc_id_t pmc, uint32_t *caps);

     int
     pmc_cpuinfo(const struct pmc_cpuinfo **cpu_info);

     int
     pmc_ncpu(void);

     int
     pmc_npmc(int cpu);

     int
     pmc_pmcinfo(int cpu, struct pmc_pmcinfo **pmc_info);

     int
     pmc_width(pmc_id_t pmc, uint32_t *width);

DESCRIPTION
     These functions retrieve information about performance monitoring hard‐
     ware.

     Function pmc_capabilities() retrieves the hardware capabilities of a PMC.
     Argument pmc is a PMC handle obtained by a prior call to pmc_allocate().
     The function sets argument caps to a bitmask of capabilities supported by
     the PMC denoted by argument pmc.  PMC capabilities are described in
     pmc(3).

     Function pmc_cpuinfo() retrieves information about the CPUs in the sys‐
     tem.  Argument cpu_info will be set to point to an internal structure
     with information about the system's CPUs.	The caller should not free
     this pointer value.  This structure has the following fields:
	   pm_cputype  Specifies the CPU type.
	   pm_ncpu     Specifies the number of CPUs in the system.
	   pm_npmc     Specifies the number of PMC rows per CPU.
	   pm_nclass   Specifies the number of distinct classes of PMCs in the
		       system.
	   pm_classes  Contains an array of struct pmc_classinfo descriptors
		       describing the properties of each class of PMCs in the
		       system.

     Function pmc_ncpu() is a convenience function that returns the maximum
     CPU number in the system.	On systems that support sparsely numbered
     CPUs, not all CPUs may be physically present.  Applications need to be
     prepared to deal with nonexistent CPUs.

     Function pmc_npmc() is a convenience function that returns the number of
     PMCs available in the CPU specified by argument cpu.

     Function pmc_pmcinfo() returns information about the current state of the
     PMC hardware in the CPU specified by argument cpu.	 The location speci‐
     fied by argument pmc_info is set to point an array of struct pmc_info
     structures each describing the state of one PMC in the CPU.  These struc‐
     ture contain the following fields:
	   pm_name	A human readable name for the PMC.
	   pm_class	The PMC class for the PMC.
	   pm_enabled	Non-zero if the PMC is enabled.
	   pm_rowdisp	The disposition of the PMC row for this PMC.  Row dis‐
			positions are documented in hwpmc(4).
	   pm_ownerpid	If the hardware is in use, the process id of the owner
			of the PMC.
	   pm_mode	The PMC mode as described in pmc(3).
	   pm_event	If the hardware is in use, the PMC event being mea‐
			sured.
	   pm_flags	If the hardware is in use, the flags associated with
			the PMC.
	   pm_reloadcount
			For sampling PMCs, the reload count associated with
			the PMC.

     Function pmc_width() is used to retrieve the width in bits of the hard‐
     ware counters associated with a PMC.  Argument pmc is a PMC handle
     obtained by a prior call to pmc_allocate().  The function sets the loca‐
     tion pointed to by argument width to the width of the physical counters
     associated with PMC pmc.

RETURN VALUES
     Functions pmc_ncpu() and pmc_npmc() returns a positive integer if suc‐
     cessful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno
     is set to indicate the error.

     Functions pmc_capabilities(), pmc_cpuinfo(), pmc_pmcinfo() and
     pmc_width() return 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned
     and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
     A call to function pmc_capabilities() may fail with the following errors:

     [EINVAL]		The argument to the function was invalid.

     Calls to functions pmc_cpuinfo(), pmc_ncpu() and pmc_npmc() may fail with
     the following errors:

     [ENXIO]		A prior call to pmc_init() to initialize the PMC
			library had failed.

     A call to function pmc_pmcinfo() may fail with the following errors:

     [EINVAL]		The argument cpu was invalid.

     [ENXIO]		The argument cpu specified a disabled or absent CPU.

     A call to function pmc_width() may fail with the following errors:

     [EINVAL]		The argument to the function was invalid.

SEE ALSO
     pmc(3), pmc_allocate(3), pmc_get_driver_stats(3),
     pmc_name_of_capability(3), pmc_name_of_cputype(3), pmc_name_of_class(3),
     pmc_name_of_event(3), pmc_name_of_mode(3), hwpmc(4)

BSD			      September 22, 2008			   BSD
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