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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Unsing perf BTS support
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:14:29 -0700
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On 1/5/13 10:02 AM, rh wrote:
>  From what little I know about perf I think I recall that perf has to come
> from the kernel source of the kernel you're running.

perf binary should be compatible across kernel versions. e.g., perf from 
2.6.35 will work on kernel version 3.8 and perf from 3.8 kernel should 
work on 2.6.35.

David