The manuals listed below are intended for three different audiences:
You might want to see some example OProfile output.
Your 4-step plan to profiling.
If you reinstall Oprofile over a previous version you need, before starting the profiler, to:
Quick reference for the available event types for the performance counters. The same
info can be retrieved by running op_help.
ALPHA EV4 (kernel 2.6 only)
ALPHA EV5 (kernel 2.6 only)
ALPHA EV6 (kernel 2.6 only)
ALPHA EV67 (kernel 2.6 only)
AMD Athlon/Duron
AMD64 processors
ARM/XScale PMU1 (kernel >= 2.6.8 only)
ARM/XScale PMU2 (kernel >= 2.6.8 only)
Intel Pentium Pro
Intel Pentium II
Intel Pentium III
Intel P4
Intel P4 with hyperthreading (kernel 2.6 only)
Intel pentium M (P6 core) (kernel >= 2.6.7 only)
Intel IA64 (kernel 2.4 only)
Intel IA64 Itanium (kernel 2.4 only)
Intel IA64 Itanium2 (kernel 2.4 only)
MIPS rm9000 (kernel >= 2.6.11)
ppc e500 (kernel >= 2.6.11 only)
ppc64 POWER4 (kernel >= 2.6.9 only)
ppc64 POWER5 (kernel >= 2.6.9 only)
ppc64 970 (kernel 2.6 only)
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