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

Pekka Enberg
2009-11-20T09:15:25Z

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. Anyway, I'm sure we can fix "perf kmem" to support what
kmemtrace-user does so it's not an issue.

Pekka