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25.Dd April 6, 2017
26.Dt PMC.ATOMSILVERMONT 3
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm pmc.atomsilvermont
30.Nd measurement events for
31.Tn Intel
32.Tn Atom Silvermont
33family CPUs
34.Sh LIBRARY
35.Lb libpmc
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In pmc.h
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39.Tn Intel
40.Tn Atom Silvermont
41CPUs contain PMCs conforming to version 3 of the
42.Tn Intel
43performance measurement architecture.
44These CPUs contains two classes of PMCs:
45.Bl -tag -width "Li PMC_CLASS_IAP"
46.It Li PMC_CLASS_IAF
47Fixed-function counters that count only one hardware event per counter.
48.It Li PMC_CLASS_IAP
49Programmable counters that may be configured to count one of a defined
50set of hardware events.
51.El
52.Pp
53The number of PMCs available in each class and their widths need to be
54determined at run time by calling
55.Xr pmc_cpuinfo 3 .
56.Pp
57Intel Atom Silvermont PMCs are documented in
58.Rs
59.%B "Intel 64 and IA-32 Intel(R) Architecture Software Developer's Manual"
60.%T "Combined Volumes"
61.%N "Order Number 325462-050US"
62.%D February 2014
63.%Q "Intel Corporation"
64.Re
65.Ss ATOM SILVERMONT FIXED FUNCTION PMCS
66These PMCs and their supported events are documented in
67.Xr pmc.iaf 3 .
68.Ss ATOM SILVERMONT PROGRAMMABLE PMCS
69The programmable PMCs support the following capabilities:
70.Bl -column "PMC_CAP_INTERRUPT" "Support"
71.It Em Capability Ta Em Support
72.It PMC_CAP_CASCADE Ta \&No
73.It PMC_CAP_EDGE Ta Yes
74.It PMC_CAP_INTERRUPT Ta Yes
75.It PMC_CAP_INVERT Ta Yes
76.It PMC_CAP_READ Ta Yes
77.It PMC_CAP_PRECISE Ta \&No
78.It PMC_CAP_SYSTEM Ta Yes
79.It PMC_CAP_TAGGING Ta \&No
80.It PMC_CAP_THRESHOLD Ta Yes
81.It PMC_CAP_USER Ta Yes
82.It PMC_CAP_WRITE Ta Yes
83.El
84.Ss Event Qualifiers
85Event specifiers for these PMCs support the following common
86qualifiers:
87.Bl -tag -width indent
88.It Li any
89Count matching events seen on any logical processor in a package.
90.It Li cmask= Ns Ar value
91Configure the PMC to increment only if the number of configured
92events measured in a cycle is greater than or equal to
93.Ar value .
94.It Li edge
95Configure the PMC to count the number of de-asserted to asserted
96transitions of the conditions expressed by the other qualifiers.
97If specified, the counter will increment only once whenever a
98condition becomes true, irrespective of the number of clocks during
99which the condition remains true.
100.It Li inv
101Invert the sense of comparison when the
102.Dq Li cmask
103qualifier is present, making the counter increment when the number of
104events per cycle is less than the value specified by the
105.Dq Li cmask
106qualifier.
107.It Li os
108Configure the PMC to count events happening at processor privilege
109level 0.
110.It Li usr
111Configure the PMC to count events occurring at privilege levels 1, 2
112or 3.
113.El
114.Pp
115If neither of the
116.Dq Li os
117or
118.Dq Li usr
119qualifiers are specified, the default is to enable both.
120.Pp
121Events that require core-specificity to be specified use a
122additional qualifier
123.Dq Li core= Ns Ar core ,
124where argument
125.Ar core
126is one of:
127.Bl -tag -width indent
128.It Li all
129Measure event conditions on all cores.
130.It Li this
131Measure event conditions on this core.
132.El
133.Pp
134The default is
135.Dq Li this .
136.Pp
137Events that require an agent qualifier to be specified use an
138additional qualifier
139.Dq Li agent= Ns agent ,
140where argument
141.Ar agent
142is one of:
143.Bl -tag -width indent
144.It Li this
145Measure events associated with this bus agent.
146.It Li any
147Measure events caused by any bus agent.
148.El
149.Pp
150The default is
151.Dq Li this .
152.Pp
153Events that require a hardware prefetch qualifier to be specified use an
154additional qualifier
155.Dq Li prefetch= Ns Ar prefetch ,
156where argument
157.Ar prefetch
158is one of:
159.Bl -tag -width "exclude"
160.It Li both
161Include all prefetches.
162.It Li only
163Only count hardware prefetches.
164.It Li exclude
165Exclude hardware prefetches.
166.El
167.Pp
168The default is
169.Dq Li both .
170.Pp
171Events that require a cache coherence qualifier to be specified use an
172additional qualifier
173.Dq Li cachestate= Ns Ar state ,
174where argument
175.Ar state
176contains one or more of the following letters:
177.Bl -tag -width indent
178.It Li e
179Count cache lines in the exclusive state.
180.It Li i
181Count cache lines in the invalid state.
182.It Li m
183Count cache lines in the modified state.
184.It Li s
185Count cache lines in the shared state.
186.El
187.Pp
188The default is
189.Dq Li eims .
190.Pp
191Events that require a snoop response qualifier to be specified use an
192additional qualifier
193.Dq Li snoopresponse= Ns Ar response ,
194where argument
195.Ar response
196comprises of the following keywords separated by
197.Dq +
198signs:
199.Bl -tag -width indent
200.It Li clean
201Measure CLEAN responses.
202.It Li hit
203Measure HIT responses.
204.It Li hitm
205Measure HITM responses.
206.El
207.Pp
208The default is to measure all the above responses.
209.Pp
210Events that require a snoop type qualifier use an additional qualifier
211.Dq Li snooptype= Ns Ar type ,
212where argument
213.Ar type
214comprises the one of the following keywords:
215.Bl -tag -width indent
216.It Li cmp2i
217Measure CMP2I snoops.
218.It Li cmp2s
219Measure CMP2S snoops.
220.El
221.Pp
222The default is to measure both snoops.
223.Ss Event Specifiers (Programmable PMCs)
224Atom Silvermont programmable PMCs support the following events:
225.Bl -tag -width indent
226.It Li REHABQ.LD_BLOCK_ST_FORWARD
227.Pq Event 03H , Umask 01H
228The number of retired loads that were
229prohibited from receiving forwarded data from the store
230because of address mismatch.
231.It Li REHABQ.LD_BLOCK_STD_NOTREADY
232.Pq Event 03H , Umask 02H
233The cases where a forward was technically possible,
234but did not occur because the store data was not available
235at the right time.
236.It Li REHABQ.ST_SPLITS
237.Pq Event 03H , Umask 04H
238The number of retire stores that experienced.
239cache line boundary splits.
240.It Li REHABQ.LD_SPLITS
241.Pq Event 03H , Umask 08H
242The number of retire loads that experienced.
243cache line boundary splits.
244.It Li REHABQ.LOCK
245.Pq Event 03H , Umask 10H
246The number of retired memory operations with lock semantics.
247These are either implicit locked instructions such as the
248XCHG instruction or instructions with an explicit LOCK
249prefix (0xF0).
250.It Li REHABQ.STA_FULL
251.Pq Event 03H , Umask 20H
252The number of retired stores that are delayed
253because there is not a store address buffer available.
254.It Li REHABQ.ANY_LD
255.Pq Event 03H , Umask 40H
256The number of load uops reissued from Rehabq.
257.It Li REHABQ.ANY_ST
258.Pq Event 03H , Umask 80H
259The number of store uops reissued from Rehabq.
260.It Li MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.L1_MISS_LOADS
261.Pq Event 04H , Umask 01H
262The number of load ops retired that miss in L1
263Data cache.
264Note that prefetch misses will not be counted.
265.It Li MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.L2_HIT_LOADS
266.Pq Event 04H , Umask 02H
267The number of load micro-ops retired that hit L2.
268.It Li MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.L2_MISS_LOADS
269.Pq Event 04H , Umask 04H
270The number of load micro-ops retired that missed L2.
271.It Li MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.DTLB_MISS_LOADS
272.Pq Event 04H , Umask 08H
273The number of load ops retired that had DTLB miss.
274.It Li MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.UTLB_MISS
275.Pq Event 04H , Umask 10H
276The number of load ops retired that had UTLB miss.
277.It Li MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.HITM
278.Pq Event 04H , Umask 20H
279The number of load ops retired that got data
280from the other core or from the other module.
281.It Li MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.ALL_LOADS
282.Pq Event 04H , Umask 40H
283The number of load ops retired.
284.It Li MEM_UOP_RETIRED.ALL_STORES
285.Pq Event 04H , Umask 80H
286The number of store ops retired.
287.It Li PAGE_WALKS.D_SIDE_CYCLES
288.Pq Event 05H , Umask 01H
289Every cycle when a D-side (walks due to a load) page walk is in progress.
290Page walk duration divided by number of page walks is the average duration of
291page-walks.
292Edge trigger bit must be cleared.
293Set Edge to count the number of page walks.
294.It Li PAGE_WALKS.I_SIDE_CYCLES
295.Pq Event 05H , Umask 02H
296Every cycle when a I-side (walks due to an instruction fetch) page walk is in
297progress.
298Page walk duration divided by number of page walks is the average duration of
299page-walks.
300.It Li PAGE_WALKS.WALKS
301.Pq Event 05H , Umask 03H
302The number of times a data (D) page walk or an instruction (I) page walk is
303completed or started.
304Since a page walk implies a TLB miss, the number of TLB misses can be counted
305by counting the number of pagewalks.
306.It Li LONGEST_LAT_CACHE.MISS
307.Pq Event 2EH , Umask 41H
308the total number of L2 cache references and the number of L2 cache misses
309respectively.
310L3 is not supported in Silvermont microarchitecture.
311.It Li LONGEST_LAT_CACHE.REFERENCE
312.Pq Event 2EH , Umask 4FH
313The number of requests originating from the core that
314references a cache line in the L2 cache.
315L3 is not supported in Silvermont microarchitecture.
316.It Li L2_REJECT_XQ.ALL
317.Pq Event 30H , Umask 00H
318The number of demand and prefetch
319transactions that the L2 XQ rejects due to a full or near full
320condition which likely indicates back pressure from the IDI link.
321The XQ may reject transactions from the L2Q (non-cacheable
322requests), BBS (L2 misses) and WOB (L2 write-back victims)
323.It Li CORE_REJECT_L2Q.ALL
324.Pq Event 31H , Umask 00H
325The number of demand and L1 prefetcher
326requests rejected by the L2Q due to a full or nearly full condition which
327likely indicates back pressure from L2Q.
328It also counts requests that would have gone directly to the XQ, but are
329rejected due to a full or nearly full condition, indicating back pressure from
330the IDI link.
331The L2Q may also reject transactions from a core to insure fairness between
332cores, or to delay a core's dirty eviction when the address conflicts incoming
333external snoops.
334(Note that L2 prefetcher requests that are dropped are not counted by this
335event).
336.It Li CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.CORE_P
337.Pq Event 3CH , Umask 00H
338The number of core cycles while the core is not in a halt state.
339The core enters the halt state when it is running the HLT instruction.
340In mobile systems the core frequency may change from time to time.
341For this reason this event may have a changing ratio with regards to time.
342.It Li CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.REF_P
343.Pq Event 3CH , Umask 01H
344The number of reference cycles that the core is not in a halt state.
345The core enters the halt state when it is running the HLT instruction.
346In mobile systems the core frequency may change from time.
347This event is not affected by core frequency changes but counts as if the core
348is running at the maximum frequency all the time.
349.It Li ICACHE.HIT
350.Pq Event 80H , Umask 01H
351The number of instruction fetches from the instruction cache.
352.It Li ICACHE.MISSES
353.Pq Event 80H , Umask 02H
354The number of instruction fetches that miss the Instruction cache or produce
355memory requests.
356This includes uncacheable fetches.
357An instruction fetch miss is counted only once and not once for every cycle
358it is outstanding.
359.It Li ICACHE.ACCESSES
360.Pq Event 80H , Umask 03H
361The number of instruction fetches, including uncacheable fetches.
362.It Li NIP_STALL.ICACHE_MISS
363.Pq Event B6H , Umask 04H
364The number of cycles the NIP stalls because of an icache miss.
365This is a cumulative count of cycles the NIP stalled for all
366icache misses.
367.It Li OFFCORE_RESPONSE_0
368.Pq Event B7H , Umask 01H
369Requires MSR_OFFCORE_RESP0 to specify request type and response.
370.It Li OFFCORE_RESPONSE_1
371.Pq Event B7H , Umask 02H
372Requires MSR_OFFCORE_RESP  to specify request type and response.
373.It Li INST_RETIRED.ANY_P
374.Pq Event C0H , Umask 00H
375The number of instructions that retire execution.
376For instructions that consist of multiple micro-ops, this event counts the
377retirement of the last micro-op of the instruction.
378The counter continues counting during hardware interrupts, traps, and inside
379interrupt handlers.
380.It Li UOPS_RETIRED.MS
381.Pq Event C2H , Umask 01H
382The number of micro-ops retired that were supplied from MSROM.
383.It Li UOPS_RETIRED.ALL
384.Pq Event C2H , Umask 10H
385The number of micro-ops retired.
386.It Li MACHINE_CLEARS.SMC
387.Pq Event C3H , Umask 01H
388The number of times that a program writes to a code section.
389Self-modifying code causes a severe penalty in all Intel
390architecture processors.
391.It Li MACHINE_CLEARS.MEMORY_ORDERING
392.Pq Event C3H , Umask 02H
393The number of times that pipeline was cleared due to memory
394ordering issues.
395.It Li MACHINE_CLEARS.FP_ASSIST
396.Pq Event C3H , Umask 04H
397The number of times that pipeline stalled due to FP operations
398needing assists.
399.It Li MACHINE_CLEARS.ALL
400.Pq Event C3H , Umask 08H
401The number of times that pipeline stalled due to due to any causes
402(including SMC, MO, FP assist, etc).
403.It Li BR_INST_RETIRED.ALL_BRANCHES
404.Pq Event C4H , Umask 00H
405The number of branch instructions retired.
406.It Li BR_INST_RETIRED.JCC
407.Pq Event C4H , Umask 7EH
408The number of branch instructions retired that were conditional
409jumps.
410.It Li BR_INST_RETIRED.FAR_BRANCH
411.Pq Event C4H , Umask BFH
412The number of far branch instructions retired.
413.It Li BR_INST_RETIRED.NON_RETURN_IND
414.Pq Event C4H , Umask EBH
415The number of branch instructions retired that were near indirect
416call or near indirect jmp.
417.It Li BR_INST_RETIRED.RETURN
418.Pq Event C4H , Umask F7H
419The number of near RET branch instructions retired.
420.It Li BR_INST_RETIRED.CALL
421.Pq Event C4H , Umask F9H
422The number of near CALL branch instructions retired.
423.It Li BR_INST_RETIRED.IND_CALL
424.Pq Event C4H , Umask FBH
425The number of near indirect CALL branch instructions retired.
426.It Li BR_INST_RETIRED.REL_CALL
427.Pq Event C4H , Umask FDH
428The number of near relative CALL branch instructions retired.
429.It Li BR_INST_RETIRED.TAKEN_JCC
430.Pq Event C4H , Umask FEH
431The number of branch instructions retired that were conditional
432jumps and predicted taken.
433.It Li BR_MISP_RETIRED.ALL_BRANCHES
434.Pq Event C5H , Umask 00H
435The number of mispredicted branch instructions retired.
436.It Li BR_MISP_RETIRED.JCC
437.Pq Event C5H , Umask 7EH
438The number of mispredicted branch instructions retired that were
439conditional jumps.
440.It Li BR_MISP_RETIRED.FAR
441.Pq Event C5H , Umask BFH
442The number of mispredicted far branch instructions retired.
443.It Li BR_MISP_RETIRED.NON_RETURN_IND
444.Pq Event C5H , Umask EBH
445The number of mispredicted branch instructions retired that were
446near indirect call or near indirect jmp.
447.It Li BR_MISP_RETIRED.RETURN
448.Pq Event C5H , Umask F7H
449The number of mispredicted near RET branch instructions retired.
450.It Li BR_MISP_RETIRED.CALL
451.Pq Event C5H , Umask F9H
452The number of mispredicted near CALL branch instructions retired.
453.It Li BR_MISP_RETIRED.IND_CALL
454.Pq Event C5H , Umask FBH
455The number of mispredicted near indirect CALL branch instructions
456retired.
457.It Li BR_MISP_RETIRED.REL_CALL
458.Pq Event C5H , Umask FDH
459The number of mispredicted near relative CALL branch instructions
460retired.
461.It Li BR_MISP_RETIRED.TAKEN_JCC
462.Pq Event C5H , Umask FEH
463The number of mispredicted branch instructions retired that were
464conditional jumps and predicted taken.
465.It Li NO_ALLOC_CYCLES.ROB_FULL
466.Pq Event CAH , Umask 01H
467The number of cycles when no uops are allocated and the ROB is full
468(less than 2 entries available).
469.It Li NO_ALLOC_CYCLES.RAT_STALL
470.Pq Event CAH , Umask 20H
471The number of cycles when no uops are allocated and a RATstall is
472asserted.
473.It Li NO_ALLOC_CYCLES.ALL
474.Pq Event CAH , Umask 3FH
475The number of cycles when the front-end does not provide any
476instructions to be allocated for any reason.
477.It Li NO_ALLOC_CYCLES.NOT_DELIVERED
478.Pq Event CAH , Umask 50H
479The number of cycles when the front-end does not provide any
480instructions to be allocated but the back end is not stalled.
481.It Li RS_FULL_STALL.MEC
482.Pq Event CBH , Umask 01H
483The number of cycles the allocation pipe line stalled due to
484the RS for the MEC cluster is full.
485.It Li RS_FULL_STALL.ALL
486.Pq Event CBH , Umask 1FH
487The number of cycles that the allocation pipe line stalled due
488to any one of the RS is full.
489.It Li CYCLES_DIV_BUSY.ANY
490.Pq Event CDH , Umask 01H
491The number of cycles the divider is busy.
492.It Li BACLEARS.ALL
493.Pq Event E6H , Umask 01H
494The number of baclears for any type of branch.
495.It Li BACLEARS.RETURN
496.Pq Event E6H , Umask 08H
497The number of baclears for return branches.
498.It Li BACLEARS.COND
499.Pq Event E6H , Umask 10H
500The number of baclears for conditional branches.
501.It Li MS_DECODED.MS_ENTRY
502.Pq Event E7H , Umask 01H)
503The number of times the MSROM starts a flow of UOPS.
504.El
505.Sh SEE ALSO
506.Xr pmc 3 ,
507.Xr pmc.amd 3 ,
508.Xr pmc.atom 3 ,
509.Xr pmc.core 3 ,
510.Xr pmc.core2 3 ,
511.Xr pmc.iaf 3 ,
512.Xr pmc.soft 3 ,
513.Xr pmc.tsc 3 ,
514.Xr pmc_cpuinfo 3 ,
515.Xr pmclog 3 ,
516.Xr hwpmc 4
517.Sh HISTORY
518The
519.Nm pmc
520library first appeared in
521.Fx 6.0 .
522.Sh AUTHORS
523.An -nosplit
524The
525.Lb libpmc
526library was written by
527.An Joseph Koshy Aq Mt jkoshy@FreeBSD.org .
528The support for the Atom Silvermont
529microarchitecture was written by
530.An Hiren Panchasara Aq Mt hiren@FreeBSD.org .
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