Comment 15 for bug 1248289

This seems like a packaging problem, since in the debian world (not ubuntu) perf happily supports dwarf symbols.

What is the current status? I would be happy to contribute a patch to fix it, but don't want to redo anyone's work.

Also, is there a reason that the fix could not get backported to older distros? It doesn't require changing the kernel, just the user space perf binaries with an update.

Anyone that doesn't have perf tools installed won't notice the change. And everyone that has perf tools installed (and therefore uses it) will be very happy; I honestly can't see a reason NOT to do it. perf tools is an essential component for performance tuning server applications.