On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Arkaprava Basu <arkaprava.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>     I am new to perfmon. I need to use PEBS to collect a trace of processor
> state (and ultimately generate address trace) for DTLB miss events. I was
> wondering if somebody can point to some example on how I can use libpfm to
> setup PEBS sample collection and collect the dump.

libpfm in its current form is a library that converts event names to
arguments for perf_event_open() syscall. To get PEBS working, you'll
need to apply Intel kernel patches from last year and mess around with
user space too.

I believe Stephane is working on a more updated version.

 -Arun

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