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    perf tools: Make target to generate self contained source tarball · 8e5564e6
    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
    
    
    Useful for when people want to try some version of the perf tools and don't
    wants to download the kernel tarball.
    
    Here is a session using this new target:
    
      [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# make help | grep -i perf
        perf-tar-src-pkg    - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar source tarball
        perf-targz-src-pkg  - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.gz source tarball
        perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2 source tarball
      [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# make perf-tarbz2-src-pkg
        TAR
      [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
      -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 295731 May 31 11:18 perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
      [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# tar xf perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
      [root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# cd perf-2.6.35-rc1
      [root@emilia perf-2.6.35-rc1]# ls
      arch  HEAD  include  lib  tools
      [root@emilia perf-2.6.35-rc1]# cd tools/perf
      [root@emilia perf]# make -j9 2>&1 | tail
          CC arch/x86/util/dwarf-regs.o
          CC util/probe-finder.o
          CC util/newt.o
          CC util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.o
          CC scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.o
          CC perf.o
          CC builtin-help.o
          AR libperf.a
          LINK perf
      rm .perf.dev.null
      [root@emilia perf]# ./perf record -a sleep 1
      [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
      [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.262 MB perf.data (~11457 samples) ]
      [root@emilia perf]# ./perf report | head -12
      # Events: 6K cycles
      #
      # Overhead          Command       Shared Object  Symbol
      # ........  ...............  ..................  ......
      #
           4.73%             perf  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] format_decode
           4.49%             perf  libc-2.12.so        [.] _IO_file_underflow_internal
           4.38%             init  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] mwait_idle
           3.29%             perf  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] vsnprintf
           2.38%             init  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] sched_clock_local
           2.35%             init  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] apic_timer_interrupt
           1.86%     sirq-timer/5  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] find_busiest_group
      [root@emilia perf]#
    
    Acked-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
    Acked-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
    Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
    Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
    Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
    Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
    LKML-Reference: <20100528185357.GA28009@ghostprotocols.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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