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 <levon@movementarian.org> and Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>. Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> is the current maintainer. Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> provided bug fixes and support for the AMD Athlon, and AMD Hammer families of CPUs. Bob Montgomery <bobm@fc.hp.com> provided bug fixes, the initial RTC driver and the initial ia64 driver. Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> integrated the ia64 driver into the oprofile release, and contributed bug fixes and several cleanups. Graydon Hoare <graydon@redhat.com> provided P4 port, bug fixes and cleanups. Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> 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