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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