requesting stable 4.1 backport of c8ad7063626406181a7ebab10cb31b4f741b13d4

[Henning Schild]

Hey,

the make perf-tar targets are also broken in 4.1.y, cherry picking
c8ad7063626406181a7ebab10cb31b4f741b13d4
will fix that. Please include the commit in 4.1 stable.

Henning