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DISCUSSION Sanjay Rawat 2 participants 2 messages Jul 30, 2015

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Hi,
As kernel 4.2 experimental is out, I am searching for linux-tools-4.2*.deb. Can anybody points to it, please?

thanks in advance

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Quoted 2 lines · Sanjay Rawat

As kernel 4.2 experimental is out, I am searching for linux-tools-4.2*.deb. Can anybody points to it, please?

if you're running a 4.2-rc kernel you are probably compiling it from scratch, so you can just build perf yourself (it's in the kernel source, in the tools/perf directory).

Also it's usually not a problem using an older version of perf with a newer kernel (though to avoid the annoying shell-script redirection you'll have to run "perf_4.0" or whatever manually).

I say usually, because even though perf versions are usually forward compatible I know that around 4.1 they changed up the tracepoint support so if you are using that functionality then you will need a newer version of the perf tool.

Vince