NAME¶

opgprof - produce gprof-format profile data

SYNOPSIS¶

opgprof [ options ] [profile specification]

DESCRIPTION¶

opgprof outputs gprof-format profile data for a given binary image, from an OProfile session. See oprofile(1) for how to write profile specifications.

OPTIONS¶

--help / -? / --usage

Show help message.

--version / -v

Show version.

--verbose / -V [options]

Give verbose debugging output.

--session-dir=dir_path

Use sample database from the specified directory dir_path instead of the default location. If --session-dir is not specified, then opgprof will search for samples in <current_dir>/oprofile_data first. If that directory does not exist, the standard session-dir of /var/lib/oprofile is used.

--image-path / -p [paths]

Comma-separated list of additional paths to search for binaries. This is needed to find modules in kernels 2.6 and upwards.

--root / -R [path]

A path to a filesystem to search for additional binaries.

--threshold / -t [percentage]

Only output data for symbols that have more than the given percentage of total samples.

--output-filename / -o [file]

Output to the given file instead of the default, gmon.out

ENVIRONMENT¶

No special environment variables are recognized by opgprof.

FILES¶

<session_dir>/samples

The location of the generated sample files.

VERSION¶

This man page is current for oprofile-1.4.0.

SEE ALSO¶

/usr/share/doc/oprofile/, oprofile(1)