diff --git a/tools/perf/scripts/install-build-deps.sh b/tools/perf/scripts/install-build-deps.sh
index aaaf315516f0..d003e7fab2be 100755
--- a/tools/perf/scripts/install-build-deps.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/scripts/install-build-deps.sh
@@ -37,11 +37,33 @@
 #           distrobox create --image debian:trixie
 #           distrobox enter debian-trixie
 #
-# Running inside a container keeps the host system unmodified.
+#   - RHEL and its variants (RHEL, CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux,
+#     Oracle Linux), on dnf (RHEL 8 and later), validated on CentOS
+#     Stream 10, in a distrobox container:
 #
-# RHEL support, whose package mapping is largely similar to Fedora's,
-# is the next planned distro, to be enabled once that mapping is
-# validated there.
+#           distrobox create --image quay.io/centos/centos:stream10
+#           distrobox enter centos-stream10
+#
+#     The RHEL family reuses most Fedora package names, with these
+#     differences, handled by probing the enabled repos:
+#
+#       - zlib.h comes from zlib-ng-compat-devel on the RHEL 10 family,
+#         zlib-devel on RHEL 9 and earlier;
+#       - the JDK devel package is versioned, there is no
+#         java-latest-openjdk-devel: java-21-openjdk-devel on the RHEL
+#         10 family, java-17-openjdk-devel on RHEL 9, java-11-openjdk-
+#         devel on RHEL 8;
+#       - libbpf-devel and capstone-devel are in the CRB repo on RHEL
+#         and CentOS Stream 10 ('dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb')
+#         and in EPEL on RHEL 9 and earlier;
+#       - libbabeltrace2-devel is not packaged on the RHEL 10 family.
+#
+#     On the RHEL family, packages not available on the enabled repos
+#     are skipped and listed at the end of the run, so that a distro
+#     with CRB/EPEL enabled gets the full set, and a distro without
+#     them still installs what it can.
+#
+# Running inside a container keeps the host system unmodified.
 #
 # Usage: install-build-deps.sh [OPTIONS]
 #
@@ -49,7 +71,8 @@
 #    --list       list the packages that would be installed, then exit
 #    --dry-run    show the install command that would be run, without
 #                 running it
-#    --distro ID  force a distro: fedora, ubuntu, debian (default: auto-detect)
+#    --distro ID  force a distro: fedora, rhel, ubuntu, debian
+#                 (default: auto-detect)
 #    -h, --help   print this help message
 #
 # Requires root (or passwordless sudo) to actually install packages.
@@ -71,13 +94,19 @@ it, so the corresponding feature gets enabled on a build.
 Options:
     --list      list the packages that would be installed, then exit
     --dry-run   show the install command that would be run, without running it
-    --distro ID force a distro: fedora, ubuntu, debian
+    --distro ID force a distro: fedora, rhel, ubuntu, debian
     -h, --help  print this help message
 
 Distros supported: Fedora (dnf), validated in a toolbx container on
 Fedora 44, Ubuntu (apt-get), validated in a distrobox container on
-Ubuntu 26.04, and Debian (apt-get), reusing the Ubuntu mapping,
-validated in a distrobox container on Debian 13 (trixie).
+Ubuntu 26.04, Debian (apt-get), reusing the Ubuntu mapping, validated
+in a distrobox container on Debian 13 (trixie), and the RHEL family
+(dnf, RHEL 8 and later), validated on CentOS Stream 10 in a distrobox
+container.  On the RHEL family, packages not available on the enabled
+repos are skipped and listed at the end; some there, e.g.
+libbpf-devel and capstone-devel, come from the CRB repo on RHEL and
+CentOS Stream 10 ('dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb') and from
+EPEL on RHEL 9 and earlier.
 EOF
 	exit 0
 }
@@ -180,6 +209,72 @@ fedora_pkg_for() {
 	# libaio-devel provides.
 }
 
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Check whether the first argument is provided by the enabled repos, or
+# is already installed, returning 0 if so and printing nothing.
+#
+# dnf repoquery exits 0 even when the pattern does not match anything,
+# so availability is judged by the output being non-empty, not by the
+# exit code.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+pkg_available() {
+	local p out
+	for p in "$@"; do
+		out=$(dnf repoquery --quiet --available "$p" 2>/dev/null)
+		[ -n "$out" ] || out=$(dnf repoquery --quiet --installed "$p" 2>/dev/null)
+		[ -n "$out" ] && return 0
+	done
+	return 1
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Return the first of its arguments that pkg_available() accepts.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+pick_available() {
+	local p
+	for p in "$@"; do
+		if pkg_available "$p"; then
+			echo "$p"
+			return 0
+		fi
+	done
+	return 1
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Return the RHEL-family package(s) providing the devel requirements of
+# a feature test.  This family reuses the Fedora mapping, whose names
+# apply to it as well, except for the features whose Fedora package
+# does not exist there, kept in the case below.
+#
+# Whether the resulting package is actually installable is checked in
+# package_set(), as some of these names live in the CRB or EPEL repos,
+# which may not be enabled: on the RHEL 10 family libbpf-devel and
+# capstone-devel come from CRB, and libbabeltrace2-devel is not
+# packaged at all.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+rhel_pkg_for() {
+	local feat="$1"
+	case "$feat" in
+	zlib)
+		# zlib-ng-compat-devel on the RHEL 10 family, zlib-devel on
+		# RHEL 9 and earlier.  If neither is on the enabled repos,
+		# fall back to the first candidate so that package_set()
+		# reports it as missing instead of silently dropping the
+		# feature from the end-of-run note.
+		pick_available zlib-devel zlib-ng-compat-devel || echo "zlib-devel"
+		;;
+	jvmti|jvmti-cmlr)
+		# No java-latest-openjdk-devel on the RHEL family: the JDK
+		# devel package is versioned per release.
+		pick_available java-latest-openjdk-devel java-21-openjdk-devel java-17-openjdk-devel java-11-openjdk-devel || echo "java-latest-openjdk-devel"
+		;;
+	*)
+		fedora_pkg_for "$feat"
+		;;
+	esac
+}
+
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Return the Debian/Ubuntu package(s) providing the devel requirements
 # of a feature test in tools/build/feature/.  This mapping is shared by
@@ -277,6 +372,11 @@ fedora_base_pkgs="gcc gcc-c++ make flex bison glibc-devel kernel-headers python3
 # installs by default, needed by the babeltrace2 feature test and
 # libopenssl's pkg-config checks.
 debian_base_pkgs="gcc g++ make pkg-config flex bison libc6-dev linux-libc-dev python3-setuptools rustc"
+# pkg-config: like Fedora, on pkgconf since Fedora 26 / RHEL 8, with
+# 'pkgconfig' live only as a virtual Provides of the pkgconf-pkg-config
+# subpackage.  List it explicitly because, unlike Fedora, a minimal
+# RHEL-family container may not have it preinstalled.
+rhel_base_pkgs="gcc gcc-c++ make flex bison glibc-devel kernel-headers pkgconf-pkg-config python3-setuptools rust"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Distro detection
@@ -290,11 +390,12 @@ detect_distro() {
 	id=$( . /etc/os-release 2>/dev/null && echo "${ID:-}" )
 	case "$id" in
 	fedora)			echo "fedora" ;;
+	rhel|centos|rocky|almalinux|ol)
+		# All share the Fedora package names (with the exceptions
+		# handled by rhel_pkg_for()) and dnf.
+		echo "rhel" ;;
 	ubuntu)			echo "ubuntu" ;;
 	debian)			echo "debian" ;;
-	# RHEL and its derivatives share most Fedora package names, but the
-	# mapping is only validated on Fedora, so don't auto-detect them.
-	rhel|centos|rocky|alma|ol) echo "" ;;
 	*)			echo "" ;;
 	esac
 }
@@ -316,33 +417,80 @@ feature_tests() {
 # Assemble the unique package list.  Since the full feature set is mapped
 # unconditionally, this installs the complete devel environment; installing
 # an already-present package is a no-op for both dnf and apt-get, making
-# this idempotent.
+# this idempotent.  On the RHEL family, packages not available on the
+# enabled repos are skipped and echoed on stderr, reported at the end of
+# the run by the caller (package_set() runs in a subshell, so a variable
+# would not survive it).
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 package_set() {
 	local distro="$1" srcdir="$2"
-	local feat pkg pkgs
+	local feat pkg pkgs base_pkgs missing_pkgs=""
 	case "$distro" in
 	fedora)	pkgs="$fedora_base_pkgs" ;;
+	rhel)	pkgs="$rhel_base_pkgs" ;;
 	ubuntu|debian)	pkgs="$debian_base_pkgs" ;;
 	esac
 
+	# The base set must be checked against the enabled repos as well:
+	# e.g. 'rust' is only shipped as the rust-toolset AppStream module
+	# on RHEL 8 and 9, where dnf would abort the whole transaction
+	# with "No match for argument: rust" instead of skipping it, so
+	# unavailable base packages are skipped and noted like the mapped
+	# ones below.
+	if [ "$distro" = "rhel" ]; then
+		base_pkgs="$pkgs"
+		pkgs=""
+		for pkg in $base_pkgs; do
+			if pkg_available "$pkg"; then
+				pkgs="$pkgs $pkg"
+			else
+				missing_pkgs="$missing_pkgs $pkg"
+			fi
+		done
+	fi
+
 	for feat in $(feature_tests "$srcdir"); do
-		if [ "$distro" = "fedora" ]; then
-			pkg=$(fedora_pkg_for "$feat")
-		else
-			pkg=$(debian_pkg_for "$feat")
-		fi
+		case "$distro" in
+		fedora)		pkg=$(fedora_pkg_for "$feat") ;;
+		rhel)		pkg=$(rhel_pkg_for "$feat") ;;
+		*)		pkg=$(debian_pkg_for "$feat") ;;
+		esac
+		# An empty result means the feature test has no external devel
+		# dependency (see the unmapped list in fedora_pkg_for()), so
+		# there is nothing to install and nothing to report as missing:
+		# packages that are genuinely unavailable on the RHEL family
+		# surface through rhel_pkg_for() falling back to its first
+		# candidate, so that the pkg_available() check below catches
+		# them and adds them to missing_pkgs.
 		[ -n "$pkg" ] || continue
 		for pkg in $pkg; do
+			if [ "$distro" = "rhel" ] && ! pkg_available "$pkg"; then
+				missing_pkgs="$missing_pkgs $pkg"
+				continue
+			fi
 			case " $pkgs " in
 			*" $pkg "*) ;;
 			*) pkgs="$pkgs $pkg" ;;
 			esac
 		done
 	done
+	[ -n "$missing_pkgs" ] && echo "$missing_pkgs" >&2
 	echo "$pkgs"
 }
 
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Report the RHEL-family packages that were skipped because the enabled
+# repos do not provide them.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+note_missing() {
+	[ -n "$1" ] || return 0
+	echo "Note: these packages are not available on the enabled repos" >&2
+	echo "and were not installed, so the features they enable will stay" >&2
+	echo "off in a perf build:" >&2
+	echo "$1" | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -v '^$' | sort -u | sed 's/^/  /' >&2
+	echo >&2
+}
+
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The install command proper for each supported package manager, plus
 # the command massaged for --dry-run.
@@ -350,7 +498,7 @@ package_set() {
 install_cmd() {
 	local distro="$1"; shift
 	case "$distro" in
-	fedora)
+	fedora|rhel)
 		echo "dnf install -y $*"
 		;;
 	ubuntu|debian)
@@ -371,7 +519,7 @@ main() {
 	# with the *_pkg_for() helpers, declares the per-feature 'pkg'
 	# locals; main() holds no per-feature package state, just the
 	# distro-wide list assembled by package_set().
-	local srcdir distro pkgs cmd
+	local srcdir distro pkgs cmd missing_file missing_pkgs
 
 	while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
 		case "$1" in
@@ -391,23 +539,48 @@ main() {
 	srcdir=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/../../.." && pwd)
 	distro=$(detect_distro)
 	case "$distro" in
-	fedora|ubuntu|debian) ;;
+	fedora|rhel|ubuntu|debian) ;;
 	*)
 		echo "error: unsupported distro (got '$distro'); the package mapping is not validated on other distros." >&2
-		echo "Supported and validated: Fedora 44 (toolbx container), Ubuntu 26.04 and Debian 13 (distrobox containers)." >&2
+		echo "Supported and validated: Fedora 44 (toolbx container), Ubuntu 26.04 and Debian 13 (distrobox containers), and CentOS Stream 10 (distrobox container)." >&2
 		exit 1
 		;;
 	esac
 
-	pkgs=$(package_set "$distro" "$srcdir")
+	# The RHEL family mapping probes the enabled repos with dnf
+	# repoquery and installs with dnf, so reject the yum-only members of
+	# the family (RHEL 7 and earlier, e.g. Oracle Linux 7) with a clear
+	# error instead of silently judging every package as unavailable.
+	if [ "$distro" = "rhel" ] && ! command -v dnf >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+		echo "error: dnf not found, the RHEL family package mapping requires dnf (RHEL 8 and later)." >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+
+	missing_file=$(mktemp) || {
+		echo "error: cannot create a temporary file (mktemp failed)" >&2
+		exit 1
+	}
+	# package_set() runs in a subshell, doing dnf repoquery loops that
+	# may be interrupted: a Ctrl-C during those loops hits these traps,
+	# turning SIGINT/SIGTERM into an exit that triggers the EXIT trap,
+	# removing the temp file, so the script terminates instead of
+	# resuming after the interrupted command, leaving no file behind.
+	trap 'rm -f "$missing_file"' EXIT
+	trap 'exit 1' INT TERM
+	pkgs=$(package_set "$distro" "$srcdir" 2>"$missing_file")
+	missing_pkgs=$(cat "$missing_file")
+	rm -f "$missing_file"
+	trap - EXIT INT TERM
 
 	case "$action" in
 	list)
 		echo "$pkgs" | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -v '^$' | sort
+		note_missing "$missing_pkgs"
 		exit 0
 		;;
 	dry-run)
 		install_cmd "$distro" $pkgs
+		note_missing "$missing_pkgs"
 		exit 0
 		;;
 	esac
@@ -424,6 +597,7 @@ main() {
 		echo "error: the install command failed, see the output above" >&2
 		exit 1
 	}
+	note_missing "$missing_pkgs"
 }
 
 main "$@"