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+.\" $OpenBSD: pctr.1,v 1.13 2008/07/08 21:39:52 sobrado Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Mike Belopuhov, Aleksey Lomovtsev
+.\"
+.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
+.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
+.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
+.\"
+.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
+.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
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+.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
+.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
+.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
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+.\"
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998, Jason Downs. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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+.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR(S) ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS
+.\" OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
+.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
+.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT,
+.\" INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
+.\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
+.\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
+.\" CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 8 2008 $
+.Dt PCTR 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm pctr
+.Nd display CPU performance counters
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm pctr
+.Op Fl AEeIiklMSu
+.Op Fl f Ar funct
+.Op Fl m Ar umask
+.Op Fl s Ar ctr
+.Op Fl t Ar thold
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+program is a sample implementation of how to access the
+.Xr pctr 4
+pseudo device available on many i386 and amd64 compatible machines.
+.Pp
+By default, the
+.Nm
+command displays the current values of the TSC and any vendor specific
+counter registers.
+.Pp
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl A
+Some bus events differentiate between the originating physical processor
+(a bus agent) and other agents on the bus.
+Specifying this option allows counting on all bus agents.
+This is supported on Intel processors only.
+.It Fl E
+Enables counting exclusive cache coherency state (supported on Intel
+processors only).
+.It Fl e
+Enables Edge Detect.
+It is mandatory to enable Edge Detect with certain counter functions.
+.It Fl f Ar funct
+Specifies a function number in hexadecimal to program the counter,
+specified by the
+.Fl s
+option.
+.It Fl I
+Enables counting invalid cache coherency state (supported on Intel
+processors only).
+.It Fl i
+Invert the result of the threshold comparison, so that both greater than
+and less than comparisons can be made.
+.It Fl k
+Count events occurring in kernel mode.
+Specification of either
+.Fl k
+or
+.Fl u
+options is mandatory.
+.It Fl l
+List all possible vendor specific counters available on the current processor.
+.It Fl M
+Enables counting modified cache coherency state (supported on Intel
+processors only).
+.It Fl m Ar umask
+Specifies a Unit Mask value for a function, specified by the
+.Fl f
+option.
+.It Fl S
+Enables counting shared cache coherency state (supported on Intel
+processors only).
+.It Fl s Ar ctr
+Program counter number
+.Ar ctr
+with the function number specified by the
+.Fl f
+option.
+A list of all possible functions supported on the current processor
+can be obtained by the
+.Fl l
+option output.
+.It Fl t Ar thold
+Specifies an increment threshold.
+The counter
+.Ar ctr
+will be incremented if the number of events occurring during one cycle is
+greater or equal to
+.Ar thold .
+.It Fl u
+Count events occurring in user mode.
+Specification of either
+.Fl k
+or
+.Fl u
+options is mandatory.
+.El
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+The following command, executed from the command line, will set the first
+performance counter to count the number of cacheable L1 data cache reads
+in user and kernel modes on an Intel Core2 Duo processor:
+.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
+# pctr -s 0 -f 40 -uk -MESI
+.Ed
+.Pp
+To reset the counter run the following command:
+.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
+# pctr -s 0 -f 0
+.Ed
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr pctr 4
+.Pp
+OS and Kernel Developer's Guide for AMD NPT Family 0Fh Processors.
+.Pp
+Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual.
+Volume 3B: System Programming Guide, Part 2.
+Appendix A: Performance Monitoring Events.
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+program appeared in
+.Ox 2.0
+but was subsequently rewritten in
+.Ox 4.3 .
+.Sh CAVEATS
+It is strongly advised to look through the manual for a particular processor
+before programming a counter and interpreting the results.