Time-Based Profiling can be performed on AMD and other x86-64-compatible processors.
The Event-Based Profiling (EBP) and Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) session types require an AMD CPU or APU.
CPU Profiling on Linux — perf Limitations:
For AMD Zen microarchitecture processors, EBP and IBS profiling on Linux requires Linux kernel 4.9 or later.
Call chain analysis on Linux depends on the call chain information provided by Linux perf. This requires the profiled binaries to have stack frame pointer (that is, compiled with -fno-omit-frame- pointer).
Timer and EBP profiling works with the default /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid (2) to profile any user-space application.
Timer and EBP profiling require perf_event_paranoid (<= 1) to profile the kernel space and perf_event_paranoid (<= 0) to profile the entire system.
IBS profile requires
perf_event_paranoid (<= 0)due to HW limitations; IBS cannot be configured to profile any specific process.
IBS may not be enabled by default. Check BIOS settings to enable it.