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+.\" Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Joseph Koshy.  All rights reserved.
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+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd September 22, 2008
+.Dt PMC_ENABLE 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm pmc_disable ,
+.Nm pmc_enable
+.Nd administrative control of hardware performance counters
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libpmc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In pmc.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn pmc_disable "int cpu" "int pmc"
+.Ft int
+.Fn pmc_enable "int cpu" "int pmc"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+These functions allow specific hardware performance monitoring
+counters in a system to be disabled and enabled administratively.
+The hardware performance counters available on each CPU are numbered
+using small non-negative integers, in a system dependent manner.
+Disabled counters will not be available to applications for use.
+.Pp
+The invoking process needs to have the
+.Dv PRIV_PMC_MANAGE
+privilege to perform these operations.
+.Pp
+Function
+.Fn pmc_disable
+disables the hardware counter numbered by argument
+.Fa pmc
+on CPU number
+.Fa cpu .
+.Pp
+Function
+.Fn pmc_enable
+enables the hardware counter numbered by argument
+.Fa pmc
+on CPU number
+.Fa cpu .
+.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
+Hardware PMCs that are currently in use by applications cannot be
+disabled.
+Allocation of a process scope software PMC marks all
+hardware PMCs in the system with the same pmc number as being in-use.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+.Rv -std
+.Sh ERRORS
+A call to these functions may fail with the following errors:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EBUSY
+Function
+.Fn pmc_disable
+specified a hardware PMC is currently in use.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+Arguments
+.Fa cpu
+or
+.Fa pmc
+were invalid.
+.It Bq Er ENXIO
+Argument
+.Fa cpu
+specified a disabled or absent CPU.
+.It Bq Er EPERM
+The current process lacks sufficient privilege to perform this
+operation.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr pmc 3 ,
+.Xr pmc_cpuinfo 3 ,
+.Xr pmc_pmcinfo 3 ,
+.Xr hwpmc 4 ,
+.Xr pmccontrol 8 ,
+.Xr priv_check 9