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Hello folks,
I'm trying the Intel PCM tools on the Mohon Peak CRB (ATOM Rangeley) and I'm facing a problem when I'm using the pcm-memory.x tool with an external program.
Here some logs:
[root@mohon_pag tmpd]# /usr/local/bin/pcm-memory.x -- /usr/sbin/send_frame_lin
Intel(r) Performance Counter Monitor: Memory Bandwidth Monitoring Utility V2.10 (2015-11-17 09:01:38 +0100 ID=cd66c34)
Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Intel Corporation
This utility measures memory bandwidth per channel or per DIMM rank in real-time
Number of logical cores: 8
Number of online logical cores: 1
Offlined cores: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Num sockets: 1
Physical cores per socket: 8
Core PMU (perfmon) version: 3
Number of core PMU generic (programmable) counters: 2
Width of generic (programmable) counters: 40 bits
Number of core PMU fixed counters: 3
Width of fixed counters: 40 bits
Nominal core frequency: 2400000000 Hz
Package thermal spec power: 0 Watt; Package minimum power: 0 Watt; Package maximum power: 0 Watt;
Access to Intel(r) Performance Counter Monitor has denied (no MSR or PCI CFG space access).
Cleaning up
[root@mohon_pag tmpd]# ls -als /dev/cpu/0/msr
0 crw-rw----. 1 root root 202, 0 Jan 13 06:15 /dev/cpu/0/msr
[root@mohon_pag tmpd]#
What could be the problem ?
Thanks.
Regards.
Patrick Agrain
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Definitely pcm-memory tool is not supported on Atom (and memory metrics in pcm.x are also not supported on Atom). I wonder why there is no message that tells that.Does it appear if you online all cores?
Roman
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Hi Roman,
Thanks for the hint.
I was also wondering that the pcm tool does display any warning message this time. I was first trying it on an old product powered by a Pentium 3 processor and saw the message that this processor was not supported.
Unfortunately we can not use more than 1 core. Our application is very (very) old and was not written for SMP systems.
One thing remains:
From https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-performance-counter-monitor
<...>
Version 2.6:
- Support for Intel® Xeon® E5 v2 processor series (microarchitecture previously codenamed Ivybridge-EP)
- Support for Intel® Core™ i5-4350U (microarchitecture previously codenamed Haswell ULT)
- Support for Intel® Atom™ processor C2000 series (microarchitecture previously codenamed Avoton)
- Support for Intel® Atom™ processor Z3000 series (microarchitecture previously codenamed Baytrail)
- Support API for programming “off-core response” PMU events. A usage example is in the new pcm-numa utility.
- Bug fixes
What indeed is then suported for the Atom Rangeley C2338 ?
Regards,
Patrick Agrain
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For Atom, PCM supports instruction per cycle, cache metrics, energy consumption metrics, C state residency, etc. You can see them in pcm.x output.
Roman

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