This is an alpha release version of oprofile, a transparent low-overhead system-wide profiler. You can find some documentation in the doc/ directory. Please visit the oprofile website at : http://oprofile.sf.net/ oprofile was written by John Levon and Philippe Elie . Maynard Johnson is the current maintainer. Dave Jones provided bug fixes and support for the AMD Athlon, and AMD Hammer families of CPUs. Bob Montgomery provided bug fixes, the initial RTC driver and the initial ia64 driver. Will Cohen integrated the ia64 driver into the oprofile release, and contributed bug fixes and several cleanups. Graydon Hoare provided P4 port, bug fixes and cleanups. Ralf Baechle provided the MIPS port. Other contributors are listed in the ChangeLog. Building -------- Please read the installation instructions in doc/oprofile.html or http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/doc/install.html. Quick start : (If using CVS: ./autogen.sh first. You need automake 1.5 or higher. You can specify a different version, e.g. ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.5 AUTOMAKE=automake-1.5 AUTOCONF=autoconf-2.13 AUTOHEADER=autoheader-2.13 ./autogen.sh) 2.4 kernels ./configure --with-linux=/path/to/kernel/source 2.6 kernels ./configure --with-kernel-support