References

Here it is possible to find a bunch of links of useful resources about speculative execution, micro-architecture, perf_events, the PMC infrastructure and so on.

rdpmc blog entry

Compiler Performance Bible

Intel Performance Counters List based on models

Performance Counters List for all arch (e.g. PowerPC, ARM, Intel)

Perf Event Guide

BlackHat talk on PMC

Interesting Formulations (check the last slides of the presentation)

Another linux perf tool guide

Interesting talk on BPF and perf

Intel MSR Performance Monitoring Basics

msr-tools

Kernel msr impl

Blog post on msr problem intel website

Assembly def rdmsr wrmsr linux kernel