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author | jkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-07-21 06:21:52 +0000 |
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committer | jkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-07-21 06:21:52 +0000 |
commit | 48e375e1e8f505cff32f56ded8b3e29458ed3936 (patch) | |
tree | 6a6c007ce528911c25e4a11249491ef30567cd0f /share/man | |
parent | a87b82ead9cf3b765802354b612d75bf00a7433a (diff) | |
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Add COMPATIBILITY and HISTORY sections. Fix an -mdoc error.
Cross-reference pmclog(3).
Reviewed by: ru
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/hwpmc.4 b/share/man/man4/hwpmc.4 index ca02427..293ca54 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/hwpmc.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/hwpmc.4 @@ -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). |