pm_get_data_mygroup, pm_get_tdata_mygroup or pm_get_Tdata_mygroup Subroutine

Purpose

Returns Performance Monitor data for the counting group to which the calling thread belongs.

Library

Performance Monitor APIs Library (libpmapi.a)

Syntax

#include <pmapi.h>

int pm_get_data_mygroup (*pmdata)
pm_data_t *pmdata;

int pm_get_tdata_mygroup (*pmdata, *time)
pm_data_t *pmdata;
timebasestruct_t *time;

int pm_get_Tdata_mygroup (pmdata, * times)
pm_data_t *pmdata;
pm_accu_time_t *times;

Description

The pm_get_data_mygroup subroutine retrieves the current Performance Monitor data for the group to which the calling kernel thread belongs.

The pm_get_tdata_mygroup subroutine retrieves the current Performance Monitor data for the group to which the calling thread belongs, and a timestamp indicating the last time the hardware counters were read.

The pm_get_Tdata_mygroup subroutine retrieves the current Performance Monitor data for the group to which the calling thread belongs, and the accumulated time (timebase, PURR time and SPURR time) the events were counted.

The Performance Monitor data is always a set (one per hardware counter on the machine used) of 64-bit values. The information returned also includes the characteristics of the group, such as the number of its members, if it is a process level group, and if its counters are consistent with the sum of the counters for all of the threads in the group.

Parameters

Item Description
*pmdata Pointer to a structure to return the Performance Monitor data for the group to which the calling thread belongs.
*time Pointer to a structure containing the timebase value the last time the hardware Performance Monitoring counters were read. This can be converted to time using the time_base_to_time subroutine.
*times Pointer to a structure containing the accumulated time (timebase, PURR time and SPURR time) the events were counted. Each time counter can be converted to time using the time_base_to_time subroutine.

Return Values

Item Description
0 No errors occurred.
Positive error code Refer to the pm_error Subroutine to decode the error code.

Error Codes

Refer to the pm_error Subroutine.

Files

Item Description
/usr/include/pmapi.h Defines standard macros, data types, and subroutines.