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PMC_ALLOCATE(3)		 BSD Library Functions Manual	       PMC_ALLOCATE(3)

NAME
     pmc_allocate, pmc_release — allocate and free performance monitoring
     counters

LIBRARY
     Performance Counters Library (libpmc, -lpmc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <pmc.h>

     int
     pmc_allocate(const char *eventspecifier, enum pmc_mode mode,
	 uint32_t flags, int cpu, pmc_id_t *pmcid);

     int
     pmc_release(pmc_id_t pmc);

DESCRIPTION
     Function pmc_allocate() allocates a performance monitoring counter that
     measures the events named by argument eventspecifier, and writes the
     allocated handle to the location pointed to by argument pmcid.

     Argument eventspecifier comprises an PMC event name followed by an
     optional comma separated list of keywords and qualifiers.	The allowed
     syntax for argument eventspecifier is processor specific and is listed in
     section EVENT SPECIFIERS in the pmc(3) manual page.

     The desired PMC mode is specified by argument mode.  Legal values for the
     mode argument are:
     PMC_MODE_SC  Allocate a system-scope counting PMC.
     PMC_MODE_SS  Allocate a system-scope sampling PMC.
     PMC_MODE_TC  Allocate a process-scope counting PMC.
     PMC_MODE_TS  Allocate a process-scope sampling PMC.

     Mode specific modifiers may be specified using argument flags.  The flags
     supported at PMC allocation time are:
     PMC_F_DESCENDANTS	 For process-scope PMCs, automatically track descen‐
			 dants of attached processes.
     PMC_F_LOG_PROCCSW	 For process-scope counting PMCs, generate a log event
			 at every context switch containing the incremental
			 number of hardware events seen by the process during
			 the time it was executing on the CPU.
     PMC_F_LOG_PROCEXIT	 For process-scope counting PMCs, accumulate hardware
			 events seen when the process was executing on a CPU
			 and generate a log event when an attached process
			 exits.
     PMCs allocated with flags PMC_F_LOG_PROCCSW and PMC_F_LOG_PROCEXIT need a
     log file to be configured before they are started.

     For system scope PMCs, the argument cpu is a non-negative value that
     specifies the CPU number that the PMC is to be allocated on.  Process
     scope PMC allocations should specify the constant PMC_CPU_ANY for this
     argument.

     Function pmc_release() releases the PMC denoted by argument pmcid.

RETURN VALUES
     If successful, function pmc_allocate() sets the location specified by
     argument pmcid to the handle of the allocated PMC and returns 0.  In case
     of an error, the function returns -1 and sets the global variable errno
     to indicate the error.

     The pmc_release() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise
     the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate
     the error.

ERRORS
     [EINVAL]		The argument mode to function pmc_allocate() had an
			invalid value.

     [EINVAL]		Argument cpu to function pmc_allocate() had an invalid
			CPU number.

     [EINVAL]		Argument flags contained flags that were unsupported
			or otherwise incompatible with the requested PMC mode.

     [EINVAL]		Argument eventspecifier to function pmc_allocate()
			specified an event not supported by hardware or con‐
			tained a syntax error.

     [ENXIO]		Function pmc_allocate() requested the use of a hard‐
			ware resource that was absent or administratively dis‐
			abled.

     [EOPNOTSUPP]	The underlying hardware does not support the capabili‐
			ties needed for a PMC being allocated by a call to
			pmc_allocate().

     [EPERM]		A system scope PMC allocation was attempted without
			adequate process privilege.

     [ESRCH]		Function pmc_release() was called without first having
			allocated a PMC.

     [EINVAL]		Argument pmcid to function pmc_release() did not spec‐
			ify a PMC previously allocated by this process.

SEE ALSO
     pmc(3), pmc_attach(3), pmc_configure_logfile(3), pmc_start(3), hwpmc(4)

BSD			      September 22, 2008			   BSD
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