\page k8 AMD® K8

# Available performance monitors for the AMD® K8 microarchitecture

- \ref K8_PMC "General-purpose counters"

\anchor K8_PMC

## General-purpose counters

The AMD® K8 microarchitecture provides 4 general-purpose counters consisting of a config and a counter register.

### Counter and events

Counter name | Event name
--- | ---
PMC0 | *
PMC1 | *
PMC2 | *
PMC3 | *

### Available Options

Option | Argument | Description | Comment
--- | --- | --- | ---
edgedetect | N | Set bit 18 in config register |
kernel | N | Set bit 17 in config register |
threshold | 8 bit hex value | Set bits 24-31 in config register | The value for threshold can range between 0x0 and 0x3
invert | N | Set bit 23 in config register |