On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:55 AM, 陳韋任 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Lin > > As the discussion on the mailing list (see below) said, > He suspected the older perf may over-interpret the error > code, thus gave me poor error message. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02927.html > > Is it possible to build a newer perf by a "normal" user > himself? Or the newer perf needs a kernel update to work > correctly?
Yes, you can build perf tool by a non-root normal user. $ cd linux-2.6/tools/perf $ make $ ./perf stat -e branches:pp ls The code changes frequently, you'd better also build a new kernel, for example 2.6.38. So I can analyze where from problem is with the same kernel version. Lin Ming > > Regards, > chenwj > > -- > Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任) > Parallel Processing Lab, Institute of Information Science, > Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.) > Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-perf-users" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
