Merge remote-tracking branch 'github/pr/2276'

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@@ -140,6 +140,11 @@ Features
       hugepages can be found here:
       https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt.
 
+    - intel_pmu
+      The intel_pmu plugin reads performance counters provided by the Linux
+      kernel perf interface. The plugin uses jevents library to resolve named
+      events to perf events and access perf interface.
+
     - intel_rdt
       The intel_rdt plugin collects information provided by monitoring features
       of Intel Resource Director Technology (Intel(R) RDT) like Cache Monitoring
@@ -240,7 +245,7 @@ Features
 
     - netapp
       Plugin to query performance values from a NetApp storage system using the
-      “Manage ONTAP” SDK provided by NetApp.
+      “Manage ONTAP” SDK provided by NetApp.
 
     - netlink
       Very detailed Linux network interface and routing statistics. You can get
@@ -786,6 +791,13 @@ Prerequisites
     For querying iptables counters.
     <http://netfilter.org/>
 
+  * libjevents (optional)
+    The jevents library is used by the `intel_pmu' plugin to access the Linux
+    kernel perf interface.
+    Note: the library should be build with -fPIC flag to be linked with
+    intel_pmu shared object correctly.
+    <https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools>
+
   * libjvm (optional)
     Library that encapsulates the `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM). This library is
     used by the `java' plugin to execute Java bytecode.