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NAME

PAPI_presets - PAPI predefined named events

SYNOPSIS

#include <papi.h>

DESCRIPTION

The PAPI library names a number of predefined, or preset events. This set is a collection of events typically found in many CPUs that provide performance counters. A PAPI preset event name is mapped onto one or more of the countable native events on each hardware platform. On any particular platform, the preset can either be directly available as a single counter, derived using a combination of counters or unavailable.

The PAPI preset events can be broken loosely into several categories, as shown in the table below:

PAPI Preset Event Definitions by Category:

Name Description
Conditional Branching
PAPI_BR_CN Conditional branch instructions
PAPI_BR_INS Branch instructions
PAPI_BR_MSP Conditional branch instructions mispredicted
PAPI_BR_NTK Conditional branch instructions not taken
PAPI_BR_PRC Conditional branch instructions correctly predicted
PAPI_BR_TKN Conditional branch instructions taken
PAPI_BR_UCN Unconditional branch instructions
PAPI_BRU_IDL Cycles branch units are idle
PAPI_BTAC_M Branch target address cache misses
Cache Requests:
PAPI_CA_CLN Requests for exclusive access to clean cache line
PAPI_CA_INV Requests for cache line invalidation
PAPI_CA_ITV Requests for cache line intervention
PAPI_CA_SHR Requests for exclusive access to shared cache line
PAPI_CA_SNP Requests for a snoop
Conditional Store:
PAPI_CSR_FAL Failed store conditional instructions
PAPI_CSR_SUC Successful store conditional instructions
PAPI_CSR_TOT Total store conditional instructions
Floating Point Operations:
PAPI_FAD_INS Floating point add instructions
PAPI_FDV_INS Floating point divide instructions
PAPI_FMA_INS FMA instructions completed
PAPI_FML_INS Floating point multiply instructions
PAPI_FNV_INS Floating point inverse instructions
PAPI_FP_INS Floating point instructions
PAPI_FP_OPS Floating point operations
PAPI_FP_STAL Cycles the FP unit
PAPI_FPU_IDL Cycles floating point units are idle
PAPI_FSQ_INS Floating point square root instructions
Instruction Counting:
PAPI_FUL_CCY Cycles with maximum instructions completed
PAPI_FUL_ICY Cycles with maximum instruction issue
PAPI_FXU_IDL Cycles integer units are idle
PAPI_HW_INT Hardware interrupts
PAPI_INT_INS Integer instructions
PAPI_TOT_CYC Total cycles
PAPI_TOT_IIS Instructions issued
PAPI_TOT_INS Instructions completed
PAPI_VEC_INS Vector/SIMD instructions
Cache Access:
PAPI_L1_DCA L1 data cache accesses
PAPI_L1_DCH L1 data cache hits
PAPI_L1_DCM L1 data cache misses
PAPI_L1_DCR L1 data cache reads
PAPI_L1_DCW L1 data cache writes
PAPI_L1_ICA L1 instruction cache accesses
PAPI_L1_ICH L1 instruction cache hits
PAPI_L1_ICM L1 instruction cache misses
PAPI_L1_ICR L1 instruction cache reads
PAPI_L1_ICW L1 instruction cache writes
PAPI_L1_LDM L1 load misses
PAPI_L1_STM L1 store misses
PAPI_L1_TCA L1 total cache accesses
PAPI_L1_TCH L1 total cache hits
PAPI_L1_TCM L1 total cache misses
PAPI_L1_TCR L1 total cache reads
PAPI_L1_TCW L1 total cache writes
PAPI_L2_DCA L2 data cache accesses
PAPI_L2_DCH L2 data cache hits
PAPI_L2_DCM L2 data cache misses
PAPI_L2_DCR L2 data cache reads
PAPI_L2_DCW L2 data cache writes
PAPI_L2_ICA L2 instruction cache accesses
PAPI_L2_ICH L2 instruction cache hits
PAPI_L2_ICM L2 instruction cache misses
PAPI_L2_ICR L2 instruction cache reads
PAPI_L2_ICW L2 instruction cache writes
PAPI_L2_LDM L2 load misses
PAPI_L2_STM L2 store misses
PAPI_L2_TCA L2 total cache accesses
PAPI_L2_TCH L2 total cache hits
PAPI_L2_TCM L2 total cache misses
PAPI_L2_TCR L2 total cache reads
PAPI_L2_TCW L2 total cache writes
PAPI_L3_DCA L3 data cache accesses
PAPI_L3_DCH L3 Data Cache Hits
PAPI_L3_DCM L3 data cache misses
PAPI_L3_DCR L3 data cache reads
PAPI_L3_DCW L3 data cache writes
PAPI_L3_ICA L3 instruction cache accesses
PAPI_L3_ICH L3 instruction cache hits
PAPI_L3_ICM L3 instruction cache misses
PAPI_L3_ICR L3 instruction cache reads
PAPI_L3_ICW L3 instruction cache writes
PAPI_L3_LDM L3 load misses
PAPI_L3_STM L3 store misses
PAPI_L3_TCA L3 total cache accesses
PAPI_L3_TCH L3 total cache hits
PAPI_L3_TCM L3 cache misses
PAPI_L3_TCR L3 total cache reads
PAPI_L3_TCW L3 total cache writes
Data Access:
PAPI_LD_INS Load instructions
PAPI_LST_INS Load/store instructions completed
PAPI_LSU_IDL Cycles load/store units are idle
PAPI_MEM_RCY Cycles Stalled Waiting for memory Reads
PAPI_MEM_SCY Cycles Stalled Waiting for memory accesses
PAPI_MEM_WCY Cycles Stalled Waiting for memory writes
PAPI_PRF_DM Data prefetch cache misses
PAPI_RES_STL Cycles stalled on any resource
PAPI_SR_INS Store instructions
PAPI_STL_CCY Cycles with no instructions completed
PAPI_STL_ICY Cycles with no instruction issue
PAPI_SYC_INS Synchronization instructions completed
TLB Operations:
PAPI_TLB_DM Data translation lookaside buffer misses
PAPI_TLB_IM Instruction translation lookaside buffer misses
PAPI_TLB_SD Translation lookaside buffer shootdowns
PAPI_TLB_TL Total translation lookaside buffer misses

AUTHORS

Nils Smeds <smeds@cs.utk.edu>

BUGS

The exact semantics of an event counter are platform dependent. PAPI preset names are mapped onto available events in a way so as to count as similar types of events as possible on different platforms. Due to hardware implementation differences it is not necessarily possible to directly compare the counts of a particular PAPI event obtained on different hardware platforms.

SEE ALSO

PAPI(3), PAPI_native(3), PAPI_enum_event(3), PAPI_get_event_info(3), PAPI_event_code_to_name(3), PAPI_event_name_to_code(3)