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+/*
+ * Performance counter support for POWER9 processors.
+ *
+ * Copyright 2016 Madhavan Srinivasan, IBM Corporation.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Power9 event codes.
+ */
+EVENT(PM_CYC,					0x0001e)
+EVENT(PM_ICT_NOSLOT_CYC,			0x100f8)
+EVENT(PM_CMPLU_STALL,				0x1e054)
+EVENT(PM_INST_CMPL,				0x00002)
+EVENT(PM_BRU_CMPL,				0x40060)
+EVENT(PM_BR_MPRED_CMPL,				0x400f6)
+
+/* All L1 D cache load references counted at finish, gated by reject */
+EVENT(PM_LD_REF_L1,				0x100fc)
+/* Load Missed L1 */
+EVENT(PM_LD_MISS_L1_FIN,			0x2c04e)
+/* Store Missed L1 */
+EVENT(PM_ST_MISS_L1,				0x300f0)
+/* L1 cache data prefetches */
+EVENT(PM_L1_PREF,				0x20054)
+/* Instruction fetches from L1 */
+EVENT(PM_INST_FROM_L1,				0x04080)
+/* Demand iCache Miss */
+EVENT(PM_L1_ICACHE_MISS,			0x200fd)
+/* Instruction Demand sectors wriittent into IL1 */
+EVENT(PM_L1_DEMAND_WRITE,			0x0408c)
+/* Instruction prefetch written into IL1 */
+EVENT(PM_IC_PREF_WRITE,				0x0408e)
+/* The data cache was reloaded from local core's L3 due to a demand load */
+EVENT(PM_DATA_FROM_L3,				0x4c042)
+/* Demand LD - L3 Miss (not L2 hit and not L3 hit) */
+EVENT(PM_DATA_FROM_L3MISS,			0x300fe)
+/* All successful D-side store dispatches for this thread */
+EVENT(PM_L2_ST,					0x16081)
+/* All successful D-side store dispatches for this thread that were L2 Miss */
+EVENT(PM_L2_ST_MISS,				0x26081)
+/* Total HW L3 prefetches(Load+store) */
+EVENT(PM_L3_PREF_ALL,				0x4e052)
+/* Data PTEG reload */
+EVENT(PM_DTLB_MISS,				0x300fc)
+/* ITLB Reloaded */
+EVENT(PM_ITLB_MISS,				0x400fc)
+/* Run_Instructions */
+EVENT(PM_RUN_INST_CMPL,				0x500fa)
+/* Run_cycles */
+EVENT(PM_RUN_CYC,				0x600f4)