OProfile is a low-overhead, transparent profiler for Linux. It is capable of instruction-grain profiling of all processes, shared libraries, the kernel, and device drivers, via the hardware performance counters.
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Thie release contains new processor support for Cell BE, IBM POWER6, AMD Family 10, PA Semi PA6T, ARM11, and ARM MPCore. Other new features include a '--session-dir' option, an '--XML' option for opreport, and enhancement to oparchive for saving debuginfo files.
Additional and revised support for a number of processor implementations (PPC64 Power5+, PPC/e500, Intel Core Duo , Intel Core 2, MIPS 5K, MIPS 20K, MIPS25K, MIPS34K, and AMD64). Also support for use in a Xen environment.
Support for PPC64 and MIPS performance counters
has been added. This requires a recent 2.6 kernel.
Some critical bugfixes and other improvements have
been made.
