Name

profile

Synopsis

$ profile [-p PID] [-a] [-e] [-d] [-f] [-w] [-c command] [-t event_type]

Options:

• --help: Display help message and exit
• --version: Print version
• -p PID: Target PID
• -a: Profile all processes (super-user only)
• -e: Enable
• -d: Disable
• -f: Free the profiling buffer for the associated process(es).
• -w: Enable profiling and wait for user input to disable.
• -c command: Command
• -t event_type: Enable tracking specific event type

Event type can be one of: sample, context_switch, page_fault, syscall, kmalloc and kfree.