Install Perf from source codes on Ubuntu
Building Perf
I'll talk about building Perf, which is a profiler tool for Linux 2.6+ based systems that abstracts away CPU hardware differences in Linux performance measurements and presents a simple command line interface.
Download source codes
$ git clone --single-branch -b perf/core git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git
Set remote repositories
$ git remote -v
origin git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git (fetch)
origin git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git (push)
I'll use acme as a remote repository of linux kernel. so rename origin to acme.
git remote rename origin acme
$ git remote -v
acme git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git (fetch)
acme git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git (push)
I'll use origin as my backup remote repository. So I make my remote repository origin.
$ git remote add origin https://github.com/qpakzk/linux-perf.git
$ git remote -v
acme git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git (fetch)
acme git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git (push)
origin https://github.com/qpakzk/linux-perf.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/qpakzk/linux-perf.git (push)
Install dependencies
$ sudo apt-get install -y libdw-dev libelf-dev libnewt-dev \
libunwind8-dev elfutils libaudit-dev libperl-dev libnuma-dev \
binutils-dev flex bison libpython2.7-dev asciidoc liblzma-dev \
libiberty-dev libgtk2.0-dev libssl-dev systemtap-sdt-dev python-dev \
libbabeltrace-ctf-dev default-jdk
Set JDIR
$ echo export JDIR="/usr/lib/jvm/open-jdk" >> ~/.bashrc
$ source ~/.bashrc
Build
I clone perf source code on home directory.
$ cd ~/linux/tools/perf/
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo cp perf /usr/bin
$ perf
usage: perf [--version] [--help] [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]
The most commonly used perf commands are:
annotate Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display annotated code
archive Create archive with object files with build-ids found in perf.data file
bench General framework for benchmark suites
buildid-cache Manage build-id cache.
buildid-list List the buildids in a perf.data file
c2c Shared Data C2C/HITM Analyzer.
config Get and set variables in a configuration file.
data Data file related processing
diff Read perf.data files and display the differential profile
evlist List the event names in a perf.data file
ftrace simple wrapper for kernel's ftrace functionality
inject Filter to augment the events stream with additional information
kallsyms Searches running kernel for symbols
kmem Tool to trace/measure kernel memory properties
kvm Tool to trace/measure kvm guest os
list List all symbolic event types
lock Analyze lock events
mem Profile memory accesses
record Run a command and record its profile into perf.data
report Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display the profile
sched Tool to trace/measure scheduler properties (latencies)
script Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display trace output
stat Run a command and gather performance counter statistics
test Runs sanity tests.
timechart Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload
top System profiling tool.
version display the version of perf binary
probe Define new dynamic tracepoints
trace strace inspired tool
See 'perf help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command.