diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index 6aee9cd5254264303550ae42b49ec62d37d31bbf..876b7ef7b4bd35dd15ec4dfd4a663717874ed691 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -2224,6 +2224,7 @@ (define-public perf
        ;; ("newt" ,newt)
        ("python" ,python-2)                    ;'perf' links against libpython
        ("elfutils" ,elfutils)
+       ("libiberty" ,libiberty)      ;used alongside BDF for symbol demangling
 
        ;; Documentation.
        ("libxml2" ,libxml2)                       ;for $XML_CATALOG_FILES