Needs a Skylake or later CPU, linuxers can
cat /sys/devices/cpu/caps/pmu_name
to find if they're invited to the party cat /sys/devices/cpu/caps/pmu_name
to find if they're invited to the party grep intel_pt /proc/cpuinfo
should do the trick.Intel PT has a bunch of rough edges that we've tried to paper over in magic-trace, but the gritty caveats are documented in the wiki.