diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
index da5f6533e6..67b01a7f65 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 
 PR = "r9"
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "scripting tui libunwind"
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "scripting tui libunwind libtraceevent"
 PACKAGECONFIG[dwarf] = ",NO_DWARF=1"
 PACKAGECONFIG[scripting] = ",NO_LIBPERL=1 NO_LIBPYTHON=1,perl python3 python3-setuptools-native"
 # gui support was added with kernel 3.6.35
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[jvmti] = ",NO_JVMTI=1"
 PACKAGECONFIG[audit] = ",NO_LIBAUDIT=1,audit"
 PACKAGECONFIG[manpages] = ",,xmlto-native asciidoc-native"
 PACKAGECONFIG[cap] = ",,libcap"
+PACKAGECONFIG[libtraceevent] = ",NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1,libtraceevent"
 # Arm CoreSight
 PACKAGECONFIG[coresight] = "CORESIGHT=1,,opencsd"