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+.\" Copyright (c) 2012 Fabien Thomas.  All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd March 28, 2012
+.Os
+.Dt PMC.SOFT 3
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm pmc.soft
+.Nd measurements using software based events
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libpmc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In pmc.h
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+Software events are used to collect various source of software events.
+.Ss PMC Features
+16 sampling counters using software events based on various sources.
+These PMCs support the following capabilities:
+.Bl -column "PMC_CAP_INTERRUPT" "Support"
+.It Em Capability Ta Em Support
+.It PMC_CAP_CASCADE Ta \&No
+.It PMC_CAP_EDGE Ta \&No
+.It PMC_CAP_INTERRUPT Ta Yes
+.It PMC_CAP_INVERT Ta \&No
+.It PMC_CAP_READ Ta Yes
+.It PMC_CAP_PRECISE Ta \&No
+.It PMC_CAP_SYSTEM Ta Yes
+.It PMC_CAP_TAGGING Ta \&No
+.It PMC_CAP_THRESHOLD Ta \&No
+.It PMC_CAP_USER Ta Yes
+.It PMC_CAP_WRITE Ta Yes
+.El
+.Ss Event Qualifiers
+There is no supported event qualifier.
+.Pp
+The event specifiers supported by software are:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Li CLOCK.HARD
+Hard clock ticks.
+.It Li CLOCK.STAT
+Stat clock ticks.
+.It Li LOCK.FAILED
+Lock acquisition failed.
+.It Li PAGE_FAULT.ALL
+All page fault type.
+.It Li PAGE_FAULT.READ
+Read page fault.
+.It Li PAGE_FAULT.WRITE
+Write page fault.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr pmc 3 ,
+.Xr pmc.atom 3 ,
+.Xr pmc.core 3 ,
+.Xr pmc.iaf 3 ,
+.Xr pmc.ucf 3 ,
+.Xr pmc.k7 3 ,
+.Xr pmc.k8 3 ,
+.Xr pmc.p4 3 ,
+.Xr pmc.p5 3 ,
+.Xr pmc.p6 3 ,
+.Xr pmc.corei7 3 ,
+.Xr pmc.corei7uc 3 ,
+.Xr pmc.westmereuc 3 ,
+.Xr pmc.tsc 3 ,
+.Xr pmc_cpuinfo 3 ,
+.Xr pmclog 3 ,
+.Xr hwpmc 4
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm pmc
+library first appeared in
+.Fx 6.0 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+The
+.Lb libpmc
+library was written by
+.An "Joseph Koshy"
+.Aq jkoshy@FreeBSD.org .
+Software PMC was written by
+.An "Fabien Thomas"
+.Aq fabient@FreeBSD.org .