On 24/05/11 21:37, Arun Sharma wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 04:49:27PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>
>> So am I out of look with my new i3 sandy bridge CPU?
>> Are PEBS restricted to i7 versions only?
>> Is this documented anywhere?
>
> i3 and i7 are marketing terms that don't mean much.
> Engineers care more about the output of:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import struct
>
> def cpuid(eax):
> f = open("/dev/cpu/0/cpuid", "rb")
> f.seek(eax)
> data = f.read(16)
> f.close()
> return struct.unpack('IIII', data)
>
> print "%x" % cpuid(1)[0]
>
>>
>> Maybe I need some kernel support as hinted at by:
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/430100/
>> My kernel is 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64
>
> Your kernel probably has support for most of PEBS. What's missing is
> support in user space for all the events in manuals.
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.linux.perfmon2.devel/2912
Well that was easy.
My Fedora 15 kernel was missing support for sandy bridge PEBS,
and creating a new bzImage with the patch I referenced makes
the counters available:
old-kern:$ perf stat -e L1-dcache-loads true
Error: L1-dcache-loads event is not supported.
Fatal: Not all events could be opened.
new-kern:$ perf stat -e L1-dcache-loads true
98,331 L1-dcache-loads
cheers,
Pádraig.
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