PMCSTAT Event for counting L1-DCache Hit / Misses

[Ryan Stone]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Sai Prajeeth <csprajeeth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am not able to find the event that counts the L1 Data cache hits and
> misses in pmccontrol -L. Can anyone tell me what the events are so that i
> can get the counts using pmcstat ?\
>
> Thanks!
>

This is specific to your processor model (not just amd64 or armv7, but the
model name like "Sandy Bridge" or "Intel E5-2600").  What processor model
do you have?  It's printed to dmesg and /var/log/messages during boot.