OPCONTROL(1) OPCONTROL(1)
NAME
opcontrol - control OProfile profiling
SYNOPSIS
opcontrol [ options ]
DESCRIPTION
opcontrol can be used to start profiling, end a profiling session, dump
profile data, and set up the profiling parameters.
OPTIONS
--help Show help message.
--version
Show version.
--list-events
Shows the monitorable events.
--init Load the OProfile module if required and make the OProfile
driver interface available.
--setup
Followed by list options for profiling setup. Store setup in
~root/.oprofile/daemonrc. Optional.
--status
Show configuration information.
--start-daemon
Start the oprofile daemon without starting profiling. Not avail-
able in 2.2/2.4 kernels.
--start
Start data collection with either arguments provided by --setup
or with information saved in ~root/.oprofile/daemonrc.
--dump Force a flush of the collected profiling data to the daemon.
--stop Stop data collection. Not available in 2.2/2.4 kernels.
--shutdown
Stop data collection and kill the daemon.
--reset
Clear out data from current session, but leaves saved sessions.
--save=sessionname
Save data from current session to sessionname.
--deinit
Shut down daemon. Unload the oprofile module and oprofilefs.
--session-dir=dir_path
Use sample database out of directory dir_path instead of the
default location (/var/lib/oprofile).
--buffer-size=num
Set kernel buffer to num samples. When using a 2.6 kernel buffer
watershed need to be tweaked when changing this value.
--buffer-watershed=num
Set kernel buffer watershed to num samples (2.6 only). When
it’ll remain only buffer-size - buffer-watershed free entry in
the kernel buffer data will be flushed to daemon, most usefull
value are in the range [0.25 - 0.5] * buffer-size.
--cpu-buffer-size=num
Set kernel per cpu buffer to num samples (2.6 only). If you pro-
file at high rate it can help to increase this if the log file
show excessive count of sample lost cpu buffer overflow.
--event=[event|"default"]
Add an event to measure for the hardware performance counters,
or "default" for the default event. The event is of the form
"CPU_CLK_UNHALTED:30000:0:1:1" where the numeric values are
count, unit mask, kernel-space counting, user-space counting,
respectively.
--separate=[none,lib,kernel,thread,cpu,all]
Separate samples based on the given separator. ’lib’ separates
dynamically linked library samples per application. ’kernel’
separates kernel and kernel module samples per application;
’kernel’ implies ’library’. ’thread’ gives separation for each
thread and task. ’cpu’ separates for each CPU. ’all’ implies
all of the above options and ’none’ turns off separation.
--callgraph=#depth
Enable callgraph sample collection with a maximum depth. Use 0
to disable callgraph profiling. This option is available on x86
using a 2.6+ kernel with callgraph support enabled. It is also
available on PowerPC using a 2.6.17+ kernel.
--image=[name,name...|"all"]
Only profile the given absolute paths to binaries, or "all" to
profile everything (the default).
--vmlinux=file
vmlinux kernel image.
--no-vmlinux
Use this when you don’t have a kernel vmlinux file, and you
don’t want to profile the kernel.
--verbose
Be verbose in the daemon log. This has a high overhead.
--kernel-range=start,end
Set kernel range vma address in hexadecimal.
OPTIONS (specific to Xen)
--xen=file
Xen image
--active-domains=<list>
List of domain ids participating in a multi-domain profiling
session. Each of the specified domains must run an instance of
oprofile. The sequence of opcontrol commands in each domain must
follow a given order which is specified in the oprofile user
manual. If more than one domain is specified in <list> they
should be separated using commas. This option can only be used
in domain 0 which is the only domain that can coordinate a
multi-domain profiling session. Including domain 0 in the list
of active domains is optional. (e.g. --active-domains=2,5,6 and
--active-domains=0,2,5,6 are equivalent). This option can only
be specified if --start-daemon is also specified and it is only
valid for the current run of the oprofile daemon; e.g. the list
of active domains is not persistent.
--passive-domains=<list>or--domains=<list>
List of domain ids to be profiled, separated by commas. As
opposed to the --active-domains option, the domains specified
with this option do not need to run oprofile. This makes profil-
ing multiple domains easier. However, with the passive-domains
option, samples in user level processes and kernel modules can-
not be mapped to specific symbols and are aggregated under a
generic class. Both --active-domains and --passive-domains
options can be specified in the same command, but the same
domain cannot be specified in both options. This option can only
be specified if either --start or --start-daemon is specified on
the same command and it is only valid for the current run of the
oprofile daemon; e.g. the list of passive domains is not persis-
tent.
--passive-images=<list>or--domains-images=<list>
List of kernel images associated with the domains specified in
the --passive-domains option, also separated by commas. The
association between the images and domains is based on the order
they are specified in both options.
ENVIRONMENT
No special environment variables are recognised by opcontrol.
FILES
/root/.oprofile/daemonrc
Configuration file for opcontrol
/var/lib/oprofile/samples/
The location of the generated sample files.
VERSION
This man page is current for oprofile-0.9.3.
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/oprofile/, oprofile(1)
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