Hardware counter profiling on Solaris/X64

Question

Hi,
I want to buy X4100 for my development. Hardware counter profiling is crucial for my work.
I know how it works on Solaris/Sparc. Can anybody confirm that Solaris/X64 on X4100 supports
all hardware counters of Opteron?

Answer 1

A 4100 system we have in our lab,
- ncpus = 2, clock frequency 2593 MHz.
- memory: 524174 pages @ 4096 bytes = 2047 MB.
shows that Analyzer can access the following hardware counters without modification to the Solaris driver:
FP_dispatched_fpu_ops[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FP_cycles_no_fpu_ops_retired[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
FP_dispatched_fpu_ops_ff[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
LS_seg_reg_load[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
LS_uarch_resync_self_modify[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
LS_uarch_resync_snoop[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (not-program-related events)
LS_buffer_2_full[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
LS_locked_operation[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
LS_uarch_late_cancel_op[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
LS_retired_cflush[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
LS_retired_cpuid[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
DC_access[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
DC_miss[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
DC_refill_from_L2[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
DC_refill_from_system[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
DC_copyback[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
DC_dtlb_L1_miss_L2_hit[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
DC_dtlb_L1_miss_L2_miss[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
DC_misaligned_data_ref[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
DC_uarch_late_cancel_access[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
DC_uarch_early_cancel_access[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
DC_1bit_ecc_error_found[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
DC_dispatched_prefetch_instr[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
DC_dcache_accesses_by_locks[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
BU_cpu_clk_unhalted[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
BU_internal_L2_req[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
BU_fill_req_missed_L2[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
BU_fill_into_L2[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
IC_fetch[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
IC_miss[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
IC_refill_from_L2[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
IC_refill_from_system[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
IC_itlb_L1_miss_L2_hit[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
IC_itlb_L1_miss_L2_miss[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
IC_uarch_resync_snoop[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (not-program-related events)
IC_instr_fetch_stall[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
IC_return_stack_hit[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
IC_return_stack_overflow[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_retired_x86_instr_w_excp_intr[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_retired_uops[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_retired_branches_w_excp_intr[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_retired_branches_mispred[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_retired_taken_branches[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_retired_taken_branches_mispred[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_retired_far_ctl_transfer[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_retired_resyncs[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_retired_near_rets[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_retired_near_rets_mispred[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_retired_taken_branches_mispred_addr_miscomp[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_retired_fpu_instr[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_retired_fastpath_double_op_instr[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_intr_masked_cycles[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
FR_intr_masked_while_pending_cycles[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
FR_taken_hardware_intrs[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_nothing_to_dispatch[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_dispatch_stalls[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
FR_dispatch_stall_branch_abort_to_retire[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
FR_dispatch_stall_serialization[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
FR_dispatch_stall_segment_load[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
FR_dispatch_stall_reorder_buffer_full[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
FR_dispatch_stall_resv_stations_full[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
FR_dispatch_stall_fpu_full[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
FR_dispatch_stall_ls_full[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
FR_dispatch_stall_waiting_all_quiet[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
FR_dispatch_stall_far_ctl_trsfr_resync_branch_pend[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
FR_fpu_exception[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_num_brkpts_dr0[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_num_brkpts_dr1[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_num_brkpts_dr2[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
FR_num_brkpts_dr3[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
NB_mem_ctrlr_page_access[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
NB_mem_ctrlr_page_table_overflow[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store events)
NB_mem_ctrlr_dram_cmd_slots_missed[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (load-store CPU-cycles)
NB_mem_ctrlr_turnaround[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (CPU-cycles)
NB_mem_ctrlr_bypass_counter_saturation[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
NB_sized_commands[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
NB_probe_result[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
NB_ht_bus0_bandwidth[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
NB_ht_bus1_bandwidth[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)
NB_ht_bus2_bandwidth[{0|1|2|3}],1000003 (events)