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Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every Debian kernel

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(Apologies, resending in plain-text to allow linux-perf-users to
follow along - the 1st e-mail bounced)

Hi,

Debian currently tries to match the Linux perf tool to the version of
the kernel that it is being run upon. Reaching out to Ben Hutchings,
he explained to me that this was done back in 2010 due to kernel and
Linux perf incompatibilities. This was likely the case, but it was a
bug in the Linux perf tool that should have been fixed. It is the goal
of the tool to be backward compatible. A problem with matching the
tool to the kernel version is that users miss out on new features and
fixes (this topic came up in a recent interview of the maintainer
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [1]).

Ben Hutchings informs me that making it so that Debian ships the
latest Linux perf tool requires updates both to the linux-base and
linux source packages. The Linux perf tool also has many other often
optional dependencies, like libunwind, libbpf, libpfm4, libtraceevent,
etc. In general, having the dependency will unlock more features.
Linux tools has its own copies of libbpf and libtraceevent, and so
these may pose some versioning issues.

I think it'd be great to get Debian shipping the latest version of
Linux perf for its users. Hopefully we can agree to change how Debian
packages perf currently and then work out the best way to package and
keep it up-to-date. I look forward to everyone's help and input.

Thanks in advance,
Ian Rogers

[1] https://youtu.be/aUDtN0qjxD0?t=5869

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Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every Debian kernel Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> - 2021-11-12 07:40 +0100
  Re: Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every  Debian kernel Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2021-11-12 16:00 +0100
    Re: Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every  Debian kernel Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> - 2021-11-22 03:20 +0100
      Re: Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every  Debian kernel Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> - 2021-11-22 18:00 +0100
      Re: Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every  Debian kernel Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2022-01-10 01:00 +0100
        Re: Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every  Debian kernel Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2022-01-10 20:10 +0100
          Re: Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every  Debian kernel Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> - 2022-12-23 02:50 +0100
            Re: Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every  Debian kernel Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> - 2022-12-25 13:20 +0100
            Re: Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every  Debian kernel Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2022-12-26 21:00 +0100
              Re: Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every  Debian kernel Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> - 2023-01-10 02:40 +0100
                Re: Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every  Debian kernel Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2023-01-13 23:10 +0100
    Re: Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every  Debian kernel Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2022-01-10 01:00 +0100

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