Vivek,

There is IBS support in perfmon since 2.6.24. If you download the
latest libpfm, you
will find an example (examples/x86) showing how to get access to it
using the perfmon
interface.

If you pull libpfm from CVS, there is a man page (man libpfm_amd64)
that describes
the IBS support for libpfm,

If you need more information, post on this list.

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Iyer, Anoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Vivek,
>
>
>
> Lightweight profiling is a proposal that will be implemented in future
> hardware. Current silicon support IBS only. IBS is documented in the BIOS
> and Kernel Developers Guide (Section 2.17, Performance Monitoring) as well
> as in the Software Optimization Guide (Appendix G, Guide to IBS). Both these
> documents are available online:
>
>
>
> http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx
>
>
>
> If you have specific IBS-related questions that are not addressed in the
> BKDG & SWOG, send them my way. Regarding the best perfmon2/libpfm versions
> for IBS, I am not the right person to ask. Robert / Stephane?
>
>
>
> Anoop
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>
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>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vivek
> Thakkar
>  Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:35 PM
>  To: [email protected]
>  Subject: [perfmon2] AMD Barcelona IBS
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>  I need to program IBS in Barcelona processors. The event I am looking for
> is L2  load cache miss and I need the data addresses for such loads.
>  Can someone point me to some relevant documentation ?
>
>  I have a link regarding LWP profiling support of AMD but I guess it is not
> yet out.  Here is the link :
>
> http://developer.amd.com/assets/HardwareExtensionsforLightweightProfilingPublic20070720.pdf
>
>
>
>  Is it significantly different from the current IBS support ?
>
>  Also, I have 2.6.23 kernel patched with perfmon. Which libpfm should I use
> ? libpfm-3.3 has a sample example for IBS but I am not sure if this is the
> best library with the kernel that i have. Please guide.
>
>  Sincerely,
>  Vivek Thakkar
>  Graduate Student and Research Assistant
>  CSC Department, NC State University
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