6.3.3. OProfile Plug-in For Eclipse
The OProfile suite of tools provide powerful call profiling capabilities; as a plug-in, these capabilities are well ported into the Eclipse user interface. The OProfile Plug-in provides the following benefits:
The OProfile Plug-in will allow Eclipse users to profile a specific binary, include related shared libraries/kernel modules, and even exclude binaries. This produces very targeted, detailed usage results on each binary, function, and symbol, down to individual line numbers in the source code.
The plug-in displays enriched OProfile results through Eclipse, just like any other plug-in. Double-clicking on a source line in the results brings users directly to the corresponding line in the Eclipse editor. This allows users to build, profile, and edit code through a single interface, making profiling a convenient experience for Eclipse users. In addition, profile runs are launched and configured the same way as C/C++ applications within Eclipse.
The Eclipse interface allows users to configure their profile run using all options available in the OProfile command-line utility. The plug-in supports event configuration based on processor debugging registers (i.e. counters), as well as interrupt-based profiling for kernels or processors that don't support hardware counters.
The OProfile Plug-in provides generally useful defaults for all options, usable for a majority of profiling runs. In addition, it also features a "one-click profile" that executes a profile run using these defaults. Users can profile applications from start to finish, or select specific areas of code through a manual control dialog.
The OProfile plug-in for Eclipse is provided by the eclipse-oprofile package. For more information about this plug-in, refer to OProfile Integration User Guide in the Eclipse (also provided by eclipse-profile).
