From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
To: peterz@infradead.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
Subject: Re: Should perf version match kernel version?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:27:32 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7CEC30D2-0C1E-4E88-A1D2-35C121EB1013@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200729160220.GB2655@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On July 29, 2020 1:02:20 PM GMT-03:00, peterz@infradead.org wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 06:56:47PM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that most distros try to have perf version to match with
>> running kernel version. Is is requirement? Would it be better to have
>> single perf from kernel mainline to work with any (older) kernel
>> version?
>>
>> We have different kernel versions in ALT Linux (stable for 4.19, 5.4,
>> and 5.7) and I want to understand if we should have three perfs or
>> single package will be enough.
>
>We strive to have it all compatible, older perf should work on newer
>kernel and newer perf should work on older kernel.
>
>How well it's all tested is another.
>
>Personally I often use a very old perf.
Yeah, never was a requirement, if you find some problem using a new perf on an old kernel or the other way around, please report.
- Arnaldo
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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-29 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-29 15:56 Vitaly Chikunov
2020-07-29 16:02 ` peterz
2020-07-29 16:27 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2020-07-29 17:57 ` Vitaly Chikunov
2020-07-29 18:28 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-08-02 11:51 ` Pavel Machek
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