NAME
tprof_pmi —
a tprof backend for Intel
Pentium 4
SYNOPSIS
pseudo-device tprof_pmi
DESCRIPTION
The
tprof_pmi driver is a
tprof(4) backend driver, which
uses performance-monitoring events available for Intel Pentium 4 (NetBurst)
processors.
It programs the processors so that global_power_events events (ESCR Event Select
= 0x13) to raise NMIs and the NMI handler collect samples.
SEE ALSO
tprof(4)
AUTHORS
The
tprof_pmi driver was written by
YAMAMOTO
Takashi.
BUGS
The name of this driver is too generic.