op-check-perfevents(1) - Linux manual page

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | ENVIRONMENT | VERSION | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

OP-CHECK-PERFEVENTS(1)     General Commands Manual    OP-CHECK-PERFEVENTS(1)

NAME         top

       op-check-perfevents - checks for kernel perf pmu support

SYNOPSIS         top

       op-check-perfevents [ options ]

DESCRIPTION         top

       The small helper program op-check-perfevents determines whether the
       kernel supports the perf interface and returns a zero exit status if
       the perf pmu support is available.

OPTIONS         top

       --help / -h
              Show usage help message.

       --verbose / -v
              Print string describing the error number of perf_event_open
              syscall

ENVIRONMENT         top

       No special environment variables are recognised by op-check-
       perfevents.

VERSION         top

       This man page is current for oprofile-1.3.0git.

SEE ALSO         top

       /usr/local/share/doc/oprofile/, oprofile(1)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the oprofile (a system-wide profiler for Linux)
       project.  Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/news/⟩.  If you have a bug report for
       this manual page, see ⟨http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/bugs/⟩.  This
       page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository ⟨git
       clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/oprofile/oprofile⟩ on 2018-02-02.  (At
       that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
       repository was 2018-01-18.)  If you discover any rendering problems
       in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is a better or
       more up-to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or
       improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which is not part
       of the original manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org

4th Berkeley Distribution   Fri 02 February 2018      OP-CHECK-PERFEVENTS(1)