Hi,

None of the CORE select umask work on Fam10h.
There is an official erratum. The only choice possible
to select all cores.

Obviously, I did not disable those umasks in libpfm3
but I know for sure they are disabled for libpfm4 (perf_events).


On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:30 PM, J K Rai <jk.anu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have tried perfmon2 with linux-2.6.30 (from git) /as well as with 
> perf_events linux-2.6.39 and libpfm-4.1.0 on AMD Phenom9650.
> Part of /proc/cpuinfo shown below:
>
> cpu family      : 16
> model           : 2
> model name      : AMD Phenom(tm) 9650 Quad-Core Processor
>
> Availability of event with umask:
>
> **** On Perfmon2 with libpfm3.9:
>
> Name     : L3_CACHE_MISSES
> Desc     : L3 Cache Misses
> Code     : 0x4e1
> Counters : [ 0 1 2 3 ]
> Umask-00 : 0x01 : [READ_BLOCK_EXCLUSIVE] : Read Block Exclusive (Data cache 
> read)
> Umask-01 : 0x02 : [READ_BLOCK_SHARED] : Read Block Shared (Instruction cache 
> read)
> Umask-02 : 0x04 : [READ_BLOCK_MODIFY] : Read Block Modify
> Umask-03 : 0x10 : [CORE_0_SELECT] : Core 0 Select
> Umask-04 : 0x20 : [CORE_1_SELECT] : Core 1 Select
> Umask-05 : 0x40 : [CORE_2_SELECT] : Core 2 Select
> Umask-06 : 0x80 : [CORE_3_SELECT] : Core 3 Select
> Umask-07 : 0xf7 : [ALL] : All sub-events selected
>
>
> **** But here use of L3_CACHE_MISSES:CORE_0_SELECT always gives 0 value.
>
> While with /perfmon2/linux-2.6.30/libpfm-3.10 as well as 
> perf_events/linux-2.6.39/libpfm-4.1.0, I do not see umask for core selection 
> supported. While the processor BKDG says about having such umask.
>
> Is that umask not to be used, kindly advise.
>
> Regards,
> Jitendra
>
>
>
>
>
>

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