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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index f05e15acd33f..f3b2c2a87456 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include "util/parse-events-hybrid.h"
#include "util/pmu-hybrid.h"
#include "tracepoint.h"
+#include "thread_map.h"
#define MAX_NAME_LEN 100
@@ -157,6 +158,44 @@ struct event_symbol event_symbols_sw[PERF_COUNT_SW_MAX] = {
#define PERF_EVENT_TYPE(config) __PERF_EVENT_FIELD(config, TYPE)
#define PERF_EVENT_ID(config) __PERF_EVENT_FIELD(config, EVENT)
+bool is_event_supported(u8 type, u64 config)
+{
+ bool ret = true;
+ int open_return;
+ struct evsel *evsel;
+ struct perf_event_attr attr = {
+ .type = type,
+ .config = config,
+ .disabled = 1,
+ };
+ struct perf_thread_map *tmap = thread_map__new_by_tid(0);
+
+ if (tmap == NULL)
+ return false;
+
+ evsel = evsel__new(&attr);
+ if (evsel) {
+ open_return = evsel__open(evsel, NULL, tmap);
+ ret = open_return >= 0;
+
+ if (open_return == -EACCES) {
+ /*
+ * This happens if the paranoid value
+ * /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid is set to 2
+ * Re-run with exclude_kernel set; we don't do that
+ * by default as some ARM machines do not support it.
+ *
+ */
+ evsel->core.attr.exclude_kernel = 1;
+ ret = evsel__open(evsel, NULL, tmap) >= 0;
+ }
+ evsel__delete(evsel);
+ }
+
+ perf_thread_map__put(tmap);
+ return ret;
+}
+
const char *event_type(int type)
{
switch (type) {