NumaTOP failed to start

Hello,

I am using the last version of numatop code, i successfully run make install. however i am facing a blocking issue to start numatop. here below the details:

bash$ numatop
NumaTOP is starting ...
Fail to setup perf (probably permission denied)!

with root:
bash$ numatop
NumaTOP is starting ...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
ibm001srv root /nfshome/nonuser/autoengine/

Operating Environment:
bash$ uname -a
Linux ibm001srv 4.5.4-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 12 12:17:54 EDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

bash$ which numatop
/usr/local/bin/numatop
ibm001srv autoengine ~/
bash$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/numatop
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 541174 May 16 17:07 /usr/local/bin/numatop*

bash$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | uniq
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz