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-John Levon's masters project makes use of performance-analysis [[MSR]]'s and a kernel module to provide awesome profiling capabilities on the [[Linux]] platform. Each processor has a set of events it supports (there might also be generic events '''FIXME'''), recoverable with <tt>opcontrol --list-events</tt>:<pre>[atlx-swps-ux-pol02](0) $ opcontrol --list-events
+John Levon's masters project makes use of performance-analysis [[MSR]]'s and a kernel module to provide awesome profiling capabilities on the [[Linux]] platform. A more recent alternative is Ingo Molnar's [[perf]].
+Each processor has a [[performance counters|set of events]] it collects (there might also be generic events '''FIXME'''), recoverable with <tt>opcontrol --list-events</tt>:<pre>[atlx-swps-ux-pol02](0) $ opcontrol --list-events
 oprofile: available events for CPU type "Core 2"