NAME

papi_decode - provides availability and detail information for PAPI preset events.

CONTENTS

Synopsis
Description
Options
Bugs
See Also

SYNOPSIS

papi_decode [-ah]

DESCRIPTION

papi_decode is a PAPI utility program that converts the PAPI presets for the existing library into a comma separated value format that can then be viewed or modified in spreadsheet applications or text editors, and can be supplied to PAPI_encode_events (3) as a way of adding or modifying event definitions for specialized applications. The format for the csv output consists of a line of field names, followed by a blank line, followed by one line of comma separated values for each event contained in the preset table. A portion of this output (for Pentium 4) is shown below:


name,derived,postfix,short_descr,long_descr,note,[native,...]

PAPI_L1_ICM,NOT_DERIVED,,"L1I cache misses","Level 1 instruction cache misses",,BPU_fetch_request_TCMISS PAPI_L2_TCM,NOT_DERIVED,,"L2 cache misses","Level 2 cache misses",,BSQ_cache_reference_RD_2ndL_MISS_WR_2ndL_MISS PAPI_TLB_DM,NOT_DERIVED,,"Data TLB misses","Data translation lookaside buffer misses",,page_walk_type_DTMISS

OPTIONS

-a Convert only the available PAPI preset events.

-h Display help information about this utility.

BUGS

There are no known bugs in this utility.

If you find a bug, it should be reported to the PAPI Mailing List at <ptools-perfapi@ptools.org>.

SEE ALSO

PAPI (3), papi_avail (1), papi_clockres (1), papi_command_line (1), papi_cost (1), papi_event_chooser (1), papi_mem_info (1), papi_native_avail (1)


PAPI_DECODE (1) May, 2005

  Innovative Computing Laboratory
2001 R&D Winner  
Contact PAPI: papi@cs.utk.edu Computer Science Department
  University of Tennessee