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From: bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
To: ranjith kumar <ranjit_kumar_b4u@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: privilege levels and kernel mode
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:24:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061015192423.GA22346@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061015191716.15283.qmail@web27401.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 08:17:16PM +0100, ranjith kumar wrote:

> memory reads, number of cache misses occured while
> running  a "C" program. For that I have to wright some
> values into "Model specific registers of pentium-4
> processor". But those registers can be written ONLY at
> privilege level of zero of pentium4 processor.

Look at 'perfmon' and 'perfctr', they give you what you want.


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-15 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-15 18:34 [PATCH] close mprotect noexec hole Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-15 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-15 19:14   ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-15 19:40     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-15 21:37       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-15 19:17   ` privilege levels and kernel mode ranjith kumar
2006-10-15 19:24     ` bert hubert [this message]
2006-10-15 20:02     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-15 23:02     ` Alan Cox

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