From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Ahern Subject: Re: perf top -z not working? Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:01:00 -0600 Message-ID: <50855FAC.5020403@gmail.com> References: <507EA40D.60206@cs.utoronto.ca> <507EB776.9030304@core.kaist.ac.kr> <20121022014618.GA7924@ghostprotocols.net> <50853311.3040707@cs.utoronto.ca> <50854633.30206@gmail.com> <508553D1.8040603@cs.utoronto.ca> <20121022144552.GB8775@ghostprotocols.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:55329 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754116Ab2JVPBH (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:01:07 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id hz1so1990924pad.19 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:01:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20121022144552.GB8775@ghostprotocols.net> Sender: linux-perf-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ryan Johnson Cc: Chulmin Kim , linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org On 10/22/12 8:45 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: To add to Arnaldo's instructions, here's how to get a copy of his tree: mkdir perf.git cd perf.git git init git add remote acme git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux git remote update git checkout remotes/acme/perf/core mkdir /tmp/pbuild make -C tools/perf O=/tmp/pbuild /tmp/pbuild/perf top -z To try out a different version: git checkout v3.0 make -C tools/perf or v3.2, v3.4, etc. Building perf is fairly quick and you do not have to install them -- just run the built binary. > > To build just the tools, on a /usr/src/linux or wherever you have the > newer kernel sources: > > make -C tools/perf install > > Then make sure you use what is in your ~/bin/ before the standard path: > > export PATH=~/bin:$PATH > hash -r > > Then try perf top -z again. > > - Arnaldo >