linux-tools-4.2

linux-tools-4.2

[Sanjay Rawat]

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

Re: linux-tools-4.2

[Vince Weaver]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Sanjay Rawat wrote:

> 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so if you are using that functionality then you will need a newer version 
of the perf tool.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