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op-check-perfevents

checks for kernel perf pmu support

op-check-perfevents [ options ]

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.

Show usage help message.
Print string describing the error number of perf_event_open syscall

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

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