Mike Dodd | 8cfa702 | 2010-11-17 11:12:26 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | This is an alpha release version of oprofile, a transparent |
| 2 | low-overhead system-wide profiler. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | You can find some documentation in the doc/ directory. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Please visit the oprofile website at : http://oprofile.sf.net/ |
| 7 | |
| 8 | oprofile was written by John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> |
| 9 | and Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> is the current maintainer. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> provided bug fixes and support for |
| 14 | the AMD Athlon, and AMD Hammer families of CPUs. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Bob Montgomery <bobm@fc.hp.com> provided bug fixes, the initial RTC |
| 17 | driver and the initial ia64 driver. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> integrated the ia64 driver into the |
| 20 | oprofile release, and contributed bug fixes and several cleanups. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | Graydon Hoare <graydon@redhat.com> provided P4 port, bug fixes and cleanups. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> provided the MIPS port. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Other contributors are listed in the ChangeLog. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Building |
| 29 | -------- |
| 30 | |
| 31 | Please read the installation instructions in doc/oprofile.html or |
| 32 | http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/doc/install.html. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Quick start : |
| 35 | |
| 36 | (If using CVS: ./autogen.sh first. You need automake 1.5 or higher. You |
| 37 | can specify a different version, e.g. |
| 38 | ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.5 AUTOMAKE=automake-1.5 AUTOCONF=autoconf-2.13 AUTOHEADER=autoheader-2.13 ./autogen.sh) |
| 39 | |
| 40 | 2.4 kernels |
| 41 | |
| 42 | ./configure --with-linux=/path/to/kernel/source |
| 43 | |
| 44 | 2.6 kernels |
| 45 | |
| 46 | ./configure --with-kernel-support |