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AMD® K8

Available performance monitors for the AMD® K8 microarchitecture

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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