commit 6b4aaf9a6c810be7c696b9edb9ad232a02a83e0b

Author: Carl E. Love <cel@us.ibm.com>

Date:   Mon Dec 19 09:31:13 2016 -0800

    Add support for the IBM POWER 8 NV and NVL variants.

    Add support for the IBM POWER 8 NV and NVL variants.

    The processor performance counter unit is identical for the various

    variants of the POWER 8 processor.  The variants vary some for the

    non-cpu events.

    Signed-off-by: Carl Love <cel@us.ibm.com>

diff --git a/libop/op_cpu_type.c b/libop/op_cpu_type.c

index d03f9d6..0e1f6e4 100644

--- a/libop/op_cpu_type.c

+++ b/libop/op_cpu_type.c

@@ -330,6 +330,11 @@ static op_cpu _get_ppc64_cpu_type(void)

 	if (strncmp(cpu_name_lowercase, "power8e", 7) == 0)

 		cpu_name_lowercase[6] = '\0';

+	/* The POWER8NV and POWER8NVL variants have the same core PMU events as

+	 * POWER8. */

+	if (strncmp(cpu_name_lowercase, "power8nv", 8) == 0)

+		cpu_name_lowercase[6] = '\0';

+

 	cpu_type_str[0] = '\0';

 	strcat(cpu_type_str, "ppc64/");

 	strncat(cpu_type_str, cpu_name_lowercase, len);