AMD® K8

Available performance monitors for the AMD® K8 microarchitecture

• General-purpose counters

General-purpose counters

The AMD® K8 microarchitecture provides 4 general-purpose counters consisting of a config and a counter register.

Counter and events

Counter name	Event name
PMC0	*
PMC1	*
PMC2	*
PMC3	*

Available Options

Option	Argument	Description	Comment
edgedetect	N	Set bit 18 in config register
kernel	N	Set bit 17 in config register
threshold	8 bit hex value	Set bits 24-31 in config register	The value for threshold can range between 0x0 and 0x3
invert	N	Set bit 23 in config register

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