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authorjkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>2005-07-21 06:21:52 +0000
committerjkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>2005-07-21 06:21:52 +0000
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Add COMPATIBILITY and HISTORY sections. Fix an -mdoc error.
Cross-reference pmclog(3). Reviewed by: ru
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@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ The
driver supports the use of hardware PMCs for counting or for
sampling:
.Bl -tag -width ".Em Counting"
+.It Em Counting
In counting modes, the PMCs count hardware events.
These counts are retrievable using the
.Dv PMC_OP_PMCREAD
@@ -500,6 +501,16 @@ The value for tunable
.Va kern.hwpmc.nsamples
was negative or greater than 65535.
.El
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+The
+.Nm
+driver is
+.Ud
+The API and ABI documented in this manual page may change in
+the future.
+The recommended method of accessing this driver is using the
+.Xr pmc 3
+API.
.Sh ERRORS
A command issued to the
.Nm
@@ -685,12 +696,18 @@ driver.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kenv 1 ,
.Xr pmc 3 ,
+.Xr pmclog 3 ,
.Xr kgmon 8 ,
.Xr kldload 8 ,
.Xr pmccontrol 8 ,
.Xr pmcstat 8 ,
.Xr sysctl 8 ,
.Xr p_candebug 9
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+driver first appeared in
+.Fx 6.0 .
.Sh BUGS
The driver samples the state of the kernel's logical processor support
at the time of initialization (i.e., at module load time).
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