diff --git a/package/linux-tools/linux-tool-perf.mk.in b/package/linux-tools/linux-tool-perf.mk.in
index ee308a85df..65aba2e9fe 100644
--- a/package/linux-tools/linux-tool-perf.mk.in
+++ b/package/linux-tools/linux-tool-perf.mk.in
@@ -120,6 +120,13 @@ else
 PERF_MAKE_FLAGS += NO_LZMA=1
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_OPENCSD),y)
+PERF_DEPENDENCIES += opencsd
+PERF_MAKE_FLAGS += CORESIGHT=1
+# There is no "else CORESIGHT=0" case, because "perf" Makefile uses
+# bare "ifdef CORESIGHT" constructs.
+endif
+
 # We really do not want to build the perf documentation, because it
 # has stringent requirement on the documentation generation tools,
 # like xmlto and asciidoc), which may be lagging behind on some