diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
index 240bf8861d7bc489cdb752fd75dd86e5d5b9302e..74fdd2bd4146ef3a9b7359e9bcc5d8c7ba9f850b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile
@@ -422,14 +422,6 @@ BUILTIN_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)builtin-mem.o
 
 PERFLIBS = $(LIB_FILE) $(LIBLK) $(LIBTRACEEVENT)
 
-#
-# Platform specific tweaks
-#
-ifneq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),clean)
-ifneq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),tags)
-
--include config/feature-tests.mak
-
 # We choose to avoid "if .. else if .. else .. endif endif"
 # because maintaining the nesting to match is a pain.  If
 # we had "elif" things would have been much nicer...
@@ -519,9 +511,6 @@ ifdef ASCIIDOC8
 	export ASCIIDOC8
 endif
 
-endif # MAKECMDGOALS != tags
-endif # MAKECMDGOALS != clean
-
 LIBS = -Wl,--whole-archive $(PERFLIBS) -Wl,--no-whole-archive -Wl,--start-group $(EXTLIBS) -Wl,--end-group
 
 ALL_CFLAGS += $(BASIC_CFLAGS)