perf_event_open system call support in powerpc

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jun 30 05:24:19 EST 2011


On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:03:10 -0700
ashwath narasimhan <ashwath.narasimhan at oneconvergence.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>  I am new to the powerpc architecture and I am trying to use
> perf_event_open() system call for power pc architecture (e500mc) using
> 2.6.32 kernel distribution. Is this system call number supported for power
> pc architecture? 

perf event support for e500mc wasn't added until 2.6.34.

-Scott



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