From: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Make cpu type POWER8E equivalent to POWER8
Git-commit: 7243fa4ed8a25c6e59225a863fd263ce70989087
Date: Tue Feb 4 08:27:10 2014 -0600

    Make cpu type POWER8E equivalent to POWER8
    
    Recent mainline kernel changes resulted in a cpu type of
    "POWER8E" being displayed in /proc/cpuinfo for certain revisions
    of the IBM POWER8 processor model. But for profiling and
    counting of native events, we can ignore the differences between
    POWER8 and POWER8E.  This patch addresses that issue.
    
    Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>

diff --git a/libop/op_cpu_type.c b/libop/op_cpu_type.c
index 2907f36..1ae2913 100644
--- a/libop/op_cpu_type.c
+++ b/libop/op_cpu_type.c
@@ -331,6 +331,9 @@ static op_cpu _get_ppc64_cpu_type(void)
 
 	if (strncmp(cpu_name_lowercase, "power7+", 7) == 0)
 		cpu_name_lowercase[6] = '\0';
+	if (strncmp(cpu_name_lowercase, "power8e", 7) == 0)
+		cpu_name_lowercase[6] = '\0';
+
 	cpu_type_str[0] = '\0';
 	strcat(cpu_type_str, "ppc64/");
 	strncat(cpu_type_str, cpu_name_lowercase, len);