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OPROFILE(1) General Commands Manual OPROFILE(1)
NAME
oprofile - a statistical profiler for Linux systems, capable of
profiling all running code at low overhead; also included is a
set of post-profiling analysis tools, as well as a simple event
counting tool
SYNOPSIS
operf [ options ]
ocount [ options ]
opreport [ options ] [ profile specification ]
opannotate [ options ] [ profile specification ]
oparchive [ options ] [ profile specification ]
opgprof [ options ] [ profile specification ]
DESCRIPTION
OProfile is a profiling system for systems running Linux 2.6.31
and greater. OProfile makes use of the hardware performance
counters provided on Intel, AMD, and other processors. OProfile
can profile a selected program or process or the whole system.
OProfile can also be used to collect cumulative event counts at
the application, process, or system level.
For a gentle guide to using OProfile, please read the HTML
documentation listed in SEE ALSO.
OPERF
operf is a performance profiler tool for Linux.
OCOUNT
ocount is an event counting tool for Linux.
OPREPORT
opreport gives image and symbol-based profile summaries for the
whole system or a subset of binary images.
OPANNOTATE
opannotate can produce annotated source or mixed source and
assembly output.
OPARCHIVE
oparchive produces oprofile archive for offline analysis
OPGPROF
opgprof can produce a gprof-format profile for a single binary.
PROFILE SPECIFICATIONS
Various optional profile specifications may be used with the
post-profiling tools. A profile specification is some combination
of the parameters listed below. ( Note: Enclosing part of a
profile specification in curly braces { } can be used for
differential profiles with opreport, but the braces must be
surrounded by whitespace.)
archive:archive
Path to the archive to inspect, as generated by oparchive
session:sessionlist
A comma-separated list of session names to resolve in.
Absence of this tag, unlike all others, means "the current
session", equivalent to specifying "session:current".
session-exclude:sessionlist
A comma-separated list of sessions to exclude.
image:imagelist
A comma-separated list of image names to resolve. Each
entry may be relative path, glob-style name, or full path,
e.g. opreport 'image:/usr/bin/operf,*op*,./oprofpp'
image-exclude:imagelist
Same as image:, but the matching images are excluded.
lib-image:imagelist
Same as image:, but only for images that are for a
particular primary binary image (namely, an application).
This only makes sense to use if you're using --separate.
This includes kernel modules and the kernel when using
--separate=kernel.
lib-image-exclude:imagelist
Same as <option>lib-image:</option>, but the matching
images are excluded.
event:eventname
The symbolic event name to match on, e.g.
event:DATA_MEM_REFS.
count:eventcount
The event count to match on, e.g. event:DATA_MEM_REFS
count:30000.
unit-mask:maskvalue
The unit mask value of the event to match on, e.g. unit-
mask:1.
cpu:cpulist
Only consider profiles for the given numbered CPU
(starting from zero). This is only useful when using CPU
profile separation.
tgid:pidlist
Only consider profiles for the given task groups. Unless
some program is using threads, the task group ID of a
process is the same as its process ID. This option
corresponds to the POSIX notion of a thread group. This is
only useful when using per-process profile separation.
tid:tidlist
Only consider profiles for the given threads. When using
recent thread libraries, all threads in a process share
the same task group ID, but have different thread IDs. You
can use this option in combination with tgid: to restrict
the results to particular threads within a process. This
is only useful when using per-process profile separation.
ENVIRONMENT
No special environment variables are recognized by OProfile.
FILES
/usr/local/share/doc/oprofile/oprofile.html
OProfile user guide.
/usr/local/share/doc/oprofile/opreport.xsd
Schema file for opreport XML output.
/usr/local/share/doc/oprofile/ophelp.xsd
Schema file for ophelp XML output.
/usr/local/share/oprofile/
Event description files used by OProfile.
<session-dir>/samples/operf.log
The profiler log file.
<session-dir>/samples/current
The location of the generated sample files.
VERSION
This man page is current for oprofile-1.5.0git.
SEE ALSO
/usr/local/share/doc/oprofile/, operf(1), ocount(1), opreport(1),
opannotate(1), oparchive(1), opgprof(1), gprof(1), CPU vendor
architecture manuals
COPYRIGHT
oprofile is Copyright (C) 1998-2004 University of Manchester, UK,
John Levon, and others. OProfile is released under the GNU
General Public License, Version 2, or (at your option) any later
version.
AUTHORS
John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> is the primary author. See
the documentation for other contributors.
COLOPHON
This page is part of the oprofile (a system-wide profiler for
Linux) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/news/⟩. If you have a bug report
for this manual page, see
⟨http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/bugs/⟩. This page was obtained
from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.code.sf.net/p/oprofile/oprofile⟩ on 2024-06-14. (At
that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
the repository was 2021-11-29.) If you discover any rendering
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