perfmonctl.2: Is it up to date?
Hi Michael,
I haven't found any of the constants (PFM_*) used by this function in glibc. Also not in the kernel, although in the kernel I found other PFM_* constants different from the ones in the manual page.
I checked that this page hasn't received any patches in a very long time (except for "Various pages" patches), so I suspect it may be out of date.
Also, does <perfmon.h> really exist? I couldn't find it either.
Cheers,
Alex
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Hello Alex,
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Hi Michael,
I haven't found any of the constants (PFM_*) used by this function in glibc. Also not in the kernel, although in the kernel I found other PFM_* constants different from the ones in the manual page.
I checked that this page hasn't received any patches in a very long time (except for "Various pages" patches), so I suspect it may be out of date.
Also, does <
perfmon.h> really exist? I couldn't find it either.
It's certainly not up to date! In fact, this system call was removed in Linux 5.10. I have applied the patch below.
Cheers,
Michael
man2/perfmonctl.2 +8 -2
@@ -196,12 +196,18 @@ On error, \-1 is returned and is set to indicate the error. .SH VERSIONS .BR perfmonctl () -is available since Linux 2.4. +was added in Linux 2.4; +.\" commit ecf5b72d5f66af843f189dfe9ce31598c3e48ad7 +it was removed in Linux 5.10. .SH CONFORMING TO .BR perfmonctl () is Linux-specific and is available only on the IA-64 architecture. .SH NOTES -Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using +This system call was broken for many years, +and ultimately removed in Linux 5.10. +.PP +Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; +on kernels where it exists, call it using .BR syscall (2). .SH SEE ALSO .BR gprof (1)
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