ACK: [PATCH 0/4] [BFHI:linux-aws] aws: do_tools_perf_jvmti = true
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
cascardo at canonical.com
Thu Sep 23 19:12:24 UTC 2021
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 12:45:19PM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1944754
>
> SRU Justification
>
> [Impact]
> For debugging purposes, on EC2, people will install linux-tools-$(uname -r)
> to help with debugging the system. This selects the kernel specific linux-tools
> package, and for the AWS variant, we are missing the library libperf-jvmti.so
> to enable tracing Java applications with perf.
>
> To get a libperf-jvmti.so library, we need to perform an additional and confusing
> step by installing linux-tools-generic to get a copy of the library. Customers on
> AWS EC2 should not have to do this. We would like the linux-tools-aws packages to
> contain libperf-jvmti.so.
>
> [Test Plan]
>
> Install linux-tools-aws, check for libperf-jvmti.so
>
> [Where problems could occur]
>
> Given that linux-tools-aws installs in a versioned (unique) directory, there should
> be no conflicts or possibility of regression.
>
> [Additional info]
>
> SF: #00319833
>
Acked-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
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