Solaris 10 10/08 Release Notes

Functions in the CPU Performance Counters Library (`libcpc`)

Hardware performance counters enable the measurement of many different hardware events that are related to CPU behavior. The following functions in the CPU Performance Counters library (libcpc) might not be supported in a future Solaris OS release:

cpc_access	cpc_bind_event
cpc_count_sys_events	cpc_count_usr_events
cpc_event_accum	cpc_event_diff
cpc_eventtostr	cpc_getcciname
cpc_getcpuref	cpc_getcpuver
cpc_getnpic	cpc_getusage
cpc_pctx_bind_event	cpc_pctx_invalidate
cpc_pctx_rele	cpc_pctx_take_sample
cpc_rele	cpc_seterrfn
cpc_shared_bind_event	cpc_shared_close
cpc_shared_open	cpc_shared_rele
cpc_shared_take_sample	cpc_strtoevent
cpc_take_sample	cpc_version
cpc_walk_names

New functions have been added to the library in Solaris 10 OS. Developers who have code that utilizes the interfaces in the preceding list should instead use the following corresponding new functions:

cpc_open	cpc_close
cpc_set_create	cpc_set_destroy
cpc_set_add_request	cpc_set_request_preset
cpc_buf_create	cpc_buf_destroy
cpc_bind_curlwp	cpc_bind_pctx
cpc_bind_cpu	cpc_unbind
cpc_set_sample	cpc_buf_sub
cpc_buf_add	cpc_buf_copy
cpc_buf_zero	cpc_buf_get
cpc_buf_set	cpc_buf_hrtime
cpc_buf_tick	cpc_walk_requests
cpc_walk_events_all	cpc_walk_events_pic
cpc_walk_attrs	cpc_enable
cpc_disable	cpc_caps
cpc_npic	cpc_cpuref
cpc_cciname	cpc_seterrhndlr

See the cpc(3CPC) man page for details.

Functions in the CPU Performance Counters Library (libcpc)

Functions in the CPU Performance Counters Library (`libcpc`)