A script for automatically downloading source, building and installing perf for ubuntu linux kernels. Useful if your kernel version does not have the required pacakages (linux-tools and linux-cloud-tools) available on ppa,

make-perf.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Author: Shlomi Vaknin
# Automatically build and install perf for ubuntu linux kernels.
# Useful if your kernel version does not have the required pacakages (linux-tools and linux-cloud-tools) available on ppa, 

SCRIPT=$(readlink -f "$0")
BASEDIR=$(dirname "$SCRIPT")

echo "Automatic perf build and install script. \n"

if [ ! -d $BASEDIR/mainline-crack ]; then
    echo "Linux sources not found. downloding them. it may take a while."

    # Use https to avoid proxy problems in company networks
    git clone https://git.launchpad.net/\~ubuntu-kernel-test/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/mainline-crack
fi

echo "Make sure you are on the correct kernel tag!"
echo "  Current kernel version: " $(uname -r)
echo "  Current git repo tag:  " $(cd $BASEDIR/mainline-crack/tools/perf; git describe --tags)
echo ""
echo "Example setting tag:\n  Use 'git tag -l | grep 4.8.12' to see if a tag exists, and then 'git checkout tag-name'."
echo ""

read -p "Press any key to continue, or abort by pressing CTRL+C" nothing
make -C $BASEDIR/mainline-crack/tools/perf

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Attempting to install perf (requires sudo):"
    sudo cp $BASEDIR/mainline-crack/tools/perf/perf $(command -v perf || echo /usr/bin/perf)
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "Done!"
    else
        echo "Did not get root permissions, failed installing. you can still use perf from its location at $BASEDIR/mainline-crack/tools/perf/perf"
    fi
else
    echo "Compilation failed, check why!"
fi