Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] perf: Add 'perf kmem' tool

Ingo Molnar
2009-11-20T10:13:14Z

* Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > But ... even without that, perf is really fast and is supposed to build
> > fine even in minimal (embedded) environments, so you can run it on the
> > embedded board too. That's useful to get live inspection features like
> > 'perf top', 'perf stat' and 'perf probe' anyway.
>
> Maybe I'm just too damn lazy but if I don't go through the trouble of
> building my kernel on the box, I sure don't want to do that for perf
> either. [...]

Well you'll need 'perf' on that box anyway, to be able to do 'perf kmem
record'.

Ingo