diff --git a/tools/build/feature/Makefile b/tools/build/feature/Makefile
index 325087a0429c..38c22e122cb0 100644
--- a/tools/build/feature/Makefile
+++ b/tools/build/feature/Makefile
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ FILES=                                          \
          test-sdt.bin                           \
          test-cxx.bin                           \
          test-jvmti.bin				\
+         test-jvmti-cmlr.bin			\
          test-sched_getcpu.bin			\
          test-setns.bin				\
          test-libopencsd.bin			\
@@ -267,6 +268,9 @@ $(OUTPUT)test-cxx.bin:
 $(OUTPUT)test-jvmti.bin:
 	$(BUILD)
 
+$(OUTPUT)test-jvmti-cmlr.bin:
+	$(BUILD)
+
 $(OUTPUT)test-llvm.bin:
 	$(BUILDXX) -std=gnu++11 				\
 		-I$(shell $(LLVM_CONFIG) --includedir) 		\
diff --git a/tools/build/feature/test-jvmti-cmlr.c b/tools/build/feature/test-jvmti-cmlr.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c27b5b71a0f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/build/feature/test-jvmti-cmlr.c
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include <jvmti.h>
+#include <jvmticmlr.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	jvmtiCompiledMethodLoadInlineRecord	rec __attribute__((unused));
+	jvmtiCompiledMethodLoadRecordHeader	hdr __attribute__((unused));
+	PCStackInfo				p   __attribute__((unused));
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/build/feature/test-jvmti.c b/tools/build/feature/test-jvmti.c
index 5cf31192f204..799916d2e3e3 100644
--- a/tools/build/feature/test-jvmti.c
+++ b/tools/build/feature/test-jvmti.c
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 #include <jvmti.h>
-#include <jvmticmlr.h>
 
 int main(void)
 {
diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
index 376d1f78be04..e110010e7faa 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
@@ -855,6 +855,13 @@ ifndef NO_JVMTI
   $(call feature_check,jvmti)
   ifeq ($(feature-jvmti), 1)
     $(call detected_var,JDIR)
+    ifndef NO_JVMTI_CMLR
+      FEATURE_CHECK_CFLAGS-jvmti-cmlr := $(FEATURE_CHECK_CFLAGS-jvmti)
+      $(call feature_check,jvmti-cmlr)
+      ifeq ($(feature-jvmti-cmlr), 1)
+        CFLAGS += -DHAVE_JVMTI_CMLR
+      endif
+    endif # NO_JVMTI_CMLR
   else
     $(warning No openjdk development package found, please install JDK package, e.g. openjdk-8-jdk, java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel)
     NO_JVMTI := 1
diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index d95655489f7e..239e7b3270f4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ include ../scripts/utilities.mak
 #
 # Define NO_JVMTI if you do not want jvmti agent built
 #
+# Define NO_JVMTI_CMLR (debug only) if you do not want to process CMLR
+# data for java source lines.
+#
 # Define LIBCLANGLLVM if you DO want builtin clang and llvm support.
 # When selected, pass LLVM_CONFIG=/path/to/llvm-config to `make' if
 # llvm-config is not in $PATH.
diff --git a/tools/perf/jvmti/libjvmti.c b/tools/perf/jvmti/libjvmti.c
index 6add3e982614..aea7b1fe85aa 100644
--- a/tools/perf/jvmti/libjvmti.c
+++ b/tools/perf/jvmti/libjvmti.c
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <err.h>
 #include <jvmti.h>
+#ifdef HAVE_JVMTI_CMLR
 #include <jvmticmlr.h>
+#endif
 #include <limits.h>
 
 #include "jvmti_agent.h"
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ static void print_error(jvmtiEnv *jvmti, const char *msg, jvmtiError ret)
 	}
 }
 
+#ifdef HAVE_JVMTI_CMLR
 static jvmtiError
 do_get_line_numbers(jvmtiEnv *jvmti, void *pc, jmethodID m, jint bci,
 		    jvmti_line_info_t *tab, jint *nr)
@@ -125,6 +128,15 @@ get_line_numbers(jvmtiEnv *jvmti, const void *compile_info, jvmti_line_info_t **
 	*nr_lines = lines_total;
 	return JVMTI_ERROR_NONE;
 }
+#else /* HAVE_JVMTI_CMLR */
+
+static jvmtiError
+get_line_numbers(jvmtiEnv *jvmti __maybe_unused, const void *compile_info __maybe_unused,
+		 jvmti_line_info_t **tab __maybe_unused, int *nr_lines __maybe_unused)
+{
+	return JVMTI_ERROR_NONE;
+}
+#endif /* HAVE_JVMTI_CMLR */
 
 static void
 copy_class_filename(const char * class_sign, const char * file_name, char * result, size_t max_length)