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| author | John Voltz <john.voltz@gmail.com> | 2008-04-24 16:54:29 +0000 |
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| committer | John Voltz <john.voltz@gmail.com> | 2008-04-24 16:54:29 +0000 |
| commit | 676797d57f33fbe9d5adc81932847154ebd1ce93 (patch) | |
| tree | 795edcd2a2e684363d45178c4923e3111050b623 /package/oprofile/Config.in | |
| parent | 143b049ccef7f578b5bdb19044326dc0fa1c1b18 (diff) | |
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add oprofile
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diff --git a/package/oprofile/Config.in b/package/oprofile/Config.in new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5e145913b --- /dev/null +++ b/package/oprofile/Config.in @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +config BR2_PACKAGE_OPROFILE + bool "oprofile" + default n + select BR2_PACKAGE_POPT + select BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP + help + OProfile is a system-wide profiler for Linux systems, + capable of profiling all running code at low overhead. + OProfile is released under the GNU GPL. + + It consists of a kernel driver and a daemon for collecting + sample data, and several post-profiling tools for turning + data into information. + + OProfile leverages the hardware performance counters of the + CPU to enable profiling of a wide variety of interesting + statistics, which can also be used for basic time-spent + profiling. All code is profiled: hardware and software + interrupt handlers, kernel modules, the kernel, shared + libraries, and applications. |