perfmon2
   the hardware-based performance monitoring interface for Linux
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Supported hardware
Perfmon2 overview
As of the kernel patch for 2.6.22, the perfmon2 subsystem supports the following processors:
  • Intel Itanium, Intel Itanium 2, Intel dual-core Itanium 2
  • Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Intel Pentium III, Intel Pentium M
  • Intel Pentium 4, Xeon, Pentium D, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
  • Intel Core Duo/Core Solo, Intel Core 2 Duo/Quad
  • AMD Opterons (all models from family 15 and 16)
  • AMD K7 processors
  • IBM PPC970, PPC970MP, POWER4+, POWER5, POWER5+, POWER6 processors
  • IBM Cell processors (incl. Sony PS3)
  • MIPS: 5K, 20K, 25KF, 34K, 5KC, 74K, R10000, R12000, RM7000, RM9000, SB1, VR5432, VR5500, ICE9A, ICE9B