On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Tanima Dey<dey_tr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using perfmon on Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 and trying to read event > counters for L2 cache, such as, L2_LINES_IN, L2_IFETCH etc. I found the > names of the events using pfm_get_event_name() function. But when I specify > "L2_ST" in the pfm_find_full_event() to initiate the counters, it shows the > error message: > "event invalid or missing unit mask". > > How can I find the unit mask for an event? I have used the function > pfm_find_event_mask(), but it is still showing the error message "event > invalid". > You ca use pfm_get_num_event_masks(). If it's zero, then no unit masks are necessary.
> Although the pfm_get_event_name() function tells that L2 caches events are > supported, are there any reasons why it is showing the error message? > Yes, you need to specify at least one unit masks when the events has some. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ perfmon2-devel mailing list perfmon2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perfmon2-devel
