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This directory contains some example programs which illustrate how
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the Linux x86 performance-monitoring counters interface may be used.
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global/
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	Shows how to set up and monitor global-mode perfctrs.
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	Fully developed, this would be a perfctr analogue
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	of the `top' or `ps' command.
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	[DISABLED PENDING REIMPLEMENTATION OF KERNEL SUPPORT]
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perfex/
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	perfex runs another program with user-specified performance
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	counter settings, and outputs the final counter values when
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	that program terminates.
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	perfex is an incomplete clone of IRIX' perfex(1) for MIPS R10000.
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self/
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	Shows how a program can use the perfctrs to
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	monitor the execution in parts of its own code.
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signal/
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	Illustrates how performance counter overflow can be caught
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	and sent to the process as a user-specified signal.