2 files changed, 29 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/make b/tools/perf/tests/make
index e341088de8f3..00544b8b644b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/make
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/make
@@ -216,10 +216,16 @@ $(run_O):
         rm -rf $$TMP_O \
         rm -rf $$TMP_DEST
 
-all: $(run) $(run_O)
+tarpkg:
+        @cmd="$(PERF)/tests/perf-targz-src-pkg $(PERF)"; \
+        echo "- $@: $$cmd" && echo $$cmd > $@ && \
+        ( eval $$cmd ) >> $@ 2>&1
+        
+
+all: $(run) $(run_O) tarpkg
         @echo OK
 
 out: $(run_O)
         @echo OK
 
-.PHONY: all $(run) $(run_O) clean
+.PHONY: all $(run) $(run_O) tarpkg clean
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/perf-targz-src-pkg b/tools/perf/tests/perf-targz-src-pkg
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..238aa3927c71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/perf-targz-src-pkg
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Test one of the main kernel Makefile targets to generate a perf sources tarball
+# suitable for build outside the full kernel sources.
+#
+# This is to test that the tools/perf/MANIFEST file lists all the files needed to
+# be in such tarball, which sometimes gets broken when we move files around,
+# like when we made some files that were in tools/perf/ available to other tools/
+# codebases by moving it to tools/include/, etc.
+
+PERF=$1
+cd ${PERF}/../..
+make perf-targz-src-pkg > /dev/null
+TARBALL=$(ls -rt perf-*.tar.gz)
+TMP_DEST=$(mktemp -d)
+tar xf ${TARBALL} -C $TMP_DEST
+rm -f ${TARBALL}
+cd - > /dev/null
+make -C $TMP_DEST/perf*/tools/perf > /dev/null 2>&1
+RC=$?
+rm -rf ${TMP_DEST}
+exit $RC