op_help(1) - Linux man page

Name

op_help - list OProfile events

Synopsis

op_help [ options ] [event name]

Description

By default, op_help lists the available performance counter options. If you give it a symbolic event name, it will return the hardware value (e.g. "op_help DATA_MEM_REFS").

Options

--cpu-type / -c

Show the events for the given numerical CPU type.
--get-cpu-type / -r: Show the symbolic CPU name.
--help / -? / --usage: Show help message.
--version / -v: Show version.

Environment

No special environment variables are recognised by op_help.

Files

$prefix/share/oprofile/

Event description files used by OProfile.
/var/lib/oprofile/samples/: The location of the generated sample files.

Version

This man page is current for oprofile-0.8.1.