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.TH OPCONTROL 1 "@DATE@" "oprofile @VERSION@"
.UC 4
.SH NAME
opcontrol \- control OProfile profiling
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B opcontrol
[
.I options
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B opcontrol
can be used to start profiling, end a profiling session,
dump profile data, and set up the profiling parameters.

.SH OPTIONS
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.BI "--help / -?"
Show help message.
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.BI "--version / -v"
Show version.
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.BI "--list-events / -l"
Shows the monitorable events.
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.BI "--init"
Load the OProfile module if required and make the OProfile driver
interface available.
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.BI "--setup"
Followed by list options for profiling setup. Store setup 
in ~root/.oprofile/daemonrc. Optional.
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.BI "--status"
Show configuration information.
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.BI "--start-daemon"
Start the oprofile daemon without starting profiling.
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.BI "--start / -s"
Start data collection with either arguments provided by --setup
or with information saved in ~root/.oprofile/daemonrc.
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.BI "--dump / -d"
Force a flush of the collected profiling data to the daemon.
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.BI "--stop / -t"
Stop data collection.
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.BI "--shutdown / -h"
Stop data collection and kill the daemon.
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.BI "--reset"
Clear out data from current session, but leaves saved sessions.
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.BI "--save="sessionname
Save data from current session to sessionname.
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.BI "--deinit"
Shut down daemon. Unload the oprofile module and oprofilefs.
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.BI "--session-dir="dir_path
Use sample database out of directory dir_path instead of the default location (/var/lib/oprofile).
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.BI "--buffer-size="num
Set kernel buffer to num samples. The buffer watershed needs
to be tweaked when changing this value.
Rules:  A non-zero value goes into effect after a '--shutdown/start' sequence.
A value of zero sets this parameter back to default value, but does not go into
effect until after '--deinit/init' sequence.
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.BI "--buffer-watershed="num
Set kernel buffer watershed to num samples. When
buffer-size - buffer-watershed free entries remain in the kernel buffer, data will be
flushed to the daemon.  Most useful values are in the range [0.25 - 0.5] * buffer-size.
Same rules as defined for buffer-size.
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.BI "--cpu-buffer-size="num
Set kernel per-cpu buffer to num samples. If you profile at high
rate it can help to increase this if the log file show excessive count of
sample lost cpu buffer overflow. Same rules as defined for buffer-size.
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.BI "--event / -e "[event|"default"]
Specify 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.  Note that this over-rides all previous events selected;
if you want to profile with two or more events simultaneously, you must specify
them on the same opcontrol invocation. You can specify unit mask values using either
a numerical value (hex values
.I must
begin with "0x") or a symbolic name (if the
.I name=<um_name>
field is shown in the
.B ophelp
output). For some named unit masks, the hex value is not unique; thus, OProfile
tools enforce specifying such unit masks value by name.
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.BI "--separate / -p "[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.
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.BI "--callgraph / -c "[#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.
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.BI "--image / -i "[name,name...|"all"]
Only profile the given absolute paths to binaries, or "all" to profile
everything (the default).
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.BI "--vmlinux="file
vmlinux kernel image.
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.BI "--no-vmlinux"
Use this when you don't have a kernel vmlinux file, and you don't want to
profile the kernel.
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.BI "--verbose / -V "[options]
Be verbose in the daemon log. This has a high overhead.
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.BI "--kernel-range="start,end
Set kernel range vma address in hexadecimal.

.SH OPTIONS (specific to Xen)
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.BI "--xen="file
Xen image
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.BI "--active-domains="<list>
List of domain ids participating in a multi-domain profiling session. 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)
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.SH OPTIONS (specific to System z)
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.BI "--s390hwsampbufsize="num
Number of 2MB areas used per CPU for storing sample data.  The best
size for the sample memory depends on the particular system and the
workload to be measured.  Providing the sampler with too little memory
results in lost samples. Reserving too much system memory for the
sampler impacts the overall performance and, hence, also the workload
to be measured.
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.SH ENVIRONMENT
No special environment variables are recognised by opcontrol.

.SH FILES
.TP
.I /root/.oprofile/daemonrc
Configuration file for opcontrol
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.I /var/lib/oprofile/samples/
The location of the generated sample files.

.SH VERSION
.TP
This man page is current for @PACKAGE@-@VERSION@.

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR @OP_DOCDIR@,
.BR oprofile(1)