APPLIED: [PATCH 0/4 v2] [BFHI:linux-aws] aws: do_tools_perf_jvmti = true

[Tim Gardner]

Applied to BFHI:linux-aws. Thanks.

-rtg

On 9/24/21 8:06 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> v2 - Add build depends for Focal, Hirsute, and Impish. Bionic
> already has them in its debian.aws/control.stub.in.
> 
> 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
> 

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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc