Bug 2350661

Summary: enable HAVE_DEBUGINFOD_SUPPORT for perf
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: 8ru2u4gz, acaringi, adscvr, airlied, bskeggs, hdegoede, hpa, jforbes, josef, kernel-maint, linville, masami256, mchehab, ptalbert, steved, suraj.ghimire7
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Description Frank Ch. Eigler 2025-03-07 17:38:32 UTC 
At various points in the past, the kernel rpm has been built with debuginfod client support in perf, which allows things like dwarf-based unwinding, source code fetching & annotation to work transparently.  But in recent kernels, this appears to have disappeared again.

Please consider adding a

BuildRequires: elfutils-debuginfod-client-devel

to the kernel.spec, so the perf Makefile feature auto-detection activates this functionality.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Frank Ch. Eigler 2025-10-08 22:03:43 UTC 
Could we please have some feedback about what is blocking adding this BuildRequires: to kernel.spec?  Over in ARK land, we did what seemed like due diligence, updating the buildroots.  What else need we do?

https://gitlab.com/cki-project/containers/-/merge_requests/630
Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2025-10-09 13:29:56 UTC 
The current issue is that the MR was not rebased after os-build was rebased (this happens every .0 release).   But if I had to guess before that, the CKI failed because of the build root issue, and no one ever asked to have it re-run after the build root containers were changed to include it.  With a failed CKI, there was likely no one willing to take time to review it.