RE: Updated AMD events patches

[<jas...@am...>]

Yes, the event can be safely used with all Athlon model as long as they supports the event based profiling.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Levon [mailto:le...@mo...]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:00 PM
To: Yeh, Jason
Cc: opr...@so...
Subject: Re: Updated AMD events patches


On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:53:39PM -0500, jas...@am... wrote:

> A new event, event #76 was added to both i386.athlon.events and
> x86-64.hammer.events.diff.  The event name is CPU_CLK_UNHALTED, Cycles
> outside of halt state.

Hi Jason, is this event safe to use on all Athlon models upwards ? I
vaguely remember something about it not working on the earliest
steppings.

regards
john