ARM V7 Cortex-A9 events

This is a list of all ARM V7 Cortex-A9's performance counter event types. Please see Cortex-A9 Technical Reference Manual Cortex A9 DDI (ARM DDI 0388E, revision r2p0)

Name	Description	Counters usable	Unit mask options
PMNC_SW_INCR	Software increment of PMNC registers	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
IFETCH_MISS	Instruction fetch misses from cache or normal cacheable memory	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
ITLB_MISS	Instruction fetch misses from TLB	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
DCACHE_REFILL	Data R/W operation that causes a refill from cache or normal cacheable memory	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
DCACHE_ACCESS	Data R/W from cache	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
DTLB_REFILL	Data R/W that causes a TLB refill	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
DREAD	Data read architecturally executed (note: architecturally executed = for instructions that are unconditional or that pass the condition code)	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
DWRITE	Data write architecturally executed	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
INSTR_EXECUTED	All executed instructions	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
EXC_TAKEN	Exception taken	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
EXC_EXECUTED	Exception return architecturally executed	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
CID_WRITE	Instruction that writes to the Context ID Register architecturally executed	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PC_WRITE	SW change of PC, architecturally executed (not by exceptions)	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PC_IMM_BRANCH	Immediate branch instruction executed (taken or not)	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PC_PROC_RETURN	Procedure return architecturally executed (not by exceptions)	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
UNALIGNED_ACCESS	Unaligned access architecturally executed	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PC_BRANCH_MIS_PRED	Branch mispredicted or not predicted. Counts pipeline flushes because of misprediction	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PC_BRANCH_MIS_USED	Branch or change in program flow that could have been predicted	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
CPU_CYCLES	Number of CPU cycles	0
JAVA_BC_EXEC	Number of Java bytecodes decoded, including speculative ones	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
JAVA_SFTBC_EXEC	Number of software Java bytecodes decoded, including speculative ones	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
JAVA_BB_EXEC	Number of Jazelle taken branches executed, including those flushed due to a previous load/store which aborts late	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
CO_LF_MISS	Number of coherent linefill requests which miss in all other CPUs, meaning that the request is sent to external memory	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
CO_LF_HIT	Number of coherent linefill requests which hit in another CPU, meaning that the linefill data is fetched directly from the relevant cache	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
IC_DEP_STALL	Number of cycles where CPU is ready to accept new instructions but does not receive any because of the instruction side not being able to provide any and the instruction cache is currently performing at least one linefill	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
DC_DEP_STALL	Number of cycles where CPU has some instructions that it cannot issue to any pipeline and the LSU has at least one pending linefill request but no pending TLB requests	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
STALL_MAIN_TLB	Number of cycles where CPU is stalled waiting for completion of translation table walk from the main TLB	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
STREX_PASS	Number of STREX instructions architecturally executed and passed	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
STREX_FAILS	Number of STREX instructions architecturally executed and failed	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
DATA_EVICT	Number of eviction requests due to a linefill in the data cache	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
ISS_NO_DISP	Number of cycles where the issue stage does not dispatch any instruction	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
ISS_EMPTY	Number of cycles where the issue stage is empty	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
INS_RENAME	Number of instructions going through the Register Renaming stage	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PRD_FN_RET	Number of procedure returns whose condition codes do not fail, excluding all exception returns	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
INS_MAIN_EXEC	Number of instructions being executed in main execution pipeline of the CPU, the multiply pipeline and the ALU pipeline	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
INS_SND_EXEC	Number of instructions being executed in the second execution pipeline (ALU) of the CPU	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
INS_LSU	Number of instructions being executed in the Load/Store unit	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
INS_FP_RR	Number of floating-point instructions going through the Register Rename stage	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
INS_NEON_RR	Number of NEON instructions going through the Register Rename stage	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
STALL_PLD	Number of cycles where CPU is stalled because PLD slots are all full	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
STALL_WRITE	Number of cycles where CPU is stalled because data side is full and executing writes to external memory	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
STALL_INS_TLB	Number of cycles where CPU is stalled because of main TLB misses on requests issued by the instruction side	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
STALL_DATA_TLB	Number of cycles where CPU is stalled because of main TLB misses on requests issued by the data side	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
STALL_INS_UTLB	Number of cycles where CPU is stalled because of micro TLB misses on the instruction side	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
STALL_DATA_ULTB	Number of cycles where CPU is stalled because of micro TLB misses on the data side	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
STALL_DMB	Number of cycles where CPU is stalled due to executed of a DMB memory barrier	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
CLK_INT_EN	Number of cycles during which the integer core clock is enabled	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
CLK_DE_EN	Number of cycles during which the Data Engine clock is enabled	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
INS_ISB	Number of ISB instructions architecturally executed	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
INS_DSB	Number of DSB instructions architecturally executed	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
INS_DMB	Number of DMB instructions speculatively executed	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
EXT_IRQ	Number of external interrupts executed by the processor	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PLE_CL_REQ_CMP	PLE cache line request completed	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PLE_CL_REQ_SKP	PLE cache line request skipped	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PLE_FIFO_FLSH	PLE FIFO flush	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PLE_REQ_COMP	PLE request completed	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PLE_FIFO_OF	PLE FIFO overflow	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PLE_REQ_PRG	PLE request programmed	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6