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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. A more recent alternative is Ingo ~~Molnar~~'s [[perf]].		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 Molnár'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		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