This is the first step in recognizing that the K8 microarchitecture
represents a small and aged subset of AMD CPUs supported by this class.
Future changes will update the code and documentation details to better
reflect this.
Keep the old filename as an alias.
Reviewed by: jkoshy
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41279
This includes event definitions from sys/pmc_events.h, definitions from
sys/pmc.h, and the man pages.
Reviewed by: jkoshy
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41275
Support for Pentium events was removed completely in e92a1350b5.
Don't bump .Dd where we are just removing xrefs.
Reviewed by: emaste
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31423
- new sentence, new line
- tab in filled text
- unusual Xr order
- skipping paragraph macro: Pp before Ss
Reviewed by: bcr
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31143
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
Advantages:
- Reduces the number of different license versions in the tree
- Eliminates a typo
- Removes some incorrect author attributions due to c/p
- Removes c/p error potential for future pmc manpages
Approved by: jkoshy, gnn, rpaulo, fabient (copyright holders)
MFC after: 1 week
Although groff_mdoc(7) gives another impression, this is the ordering
most widely used and also required by mdocml/mandoc.
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: philip, ed (mentors)
