OPHELP(1)

NAME
ophelp - list OProfile events

SYNOPSIS
ophelp [ options ] [event name]

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

--get-default-event / -d
    Show the default event for the specified CPU type.

--check-events / -e [events]
    Check the given space-separated event descriptions for validity. If the events are valid, show which pmu counter each event would be assigned to.

--callgraph [callgraph_depth]
    Use the callgraph depth to compute the higher minimum sampling intervals for the events.

--unit-mask / -u [event]
    Show the default unit mask for the given event.

--extra-mask / -E [event]
    Show the extra unit mask for given event.

--xml / -X
    List events in XML format.

--help / -? / --usage
    Show help message.

--version / -v
    Show version.

ENVIRONMENT
No special environment variables are recognised by ophelp.

FILES

$prefix/share/oprofile/
    Event description files used by OProfile.

VERSION

This man page is current for oprofile-1.4.0.

SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/oprofile/, oprofile(1)