diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
index d7e4869905f1d4a1d35501d87c99860bbad60c10..f96382692f42e931da4d6e6d758d53c905398c6e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ Probe points are defined by following syntax.
      or,
      sdt_PROVIDER:SDTEVENT
 
-'EVENT' specifies the name of new event, if omitted, it will be set the name of the probed function. You can also specify a group name by 'GROUP', if omitted, set 'probe' is used for kprobe and 'probe_<bin>' is used for uprobe.
+'EVENT' specifies the name of new event, if omitted, it will be set the name of the probed function, and for return probes, a "\_\_return" suffix is automatically added to the function name. You can also specify a group name by 'GROUP', if omitted, set 'probe' is used for kprobe and 'probe_<bin>' is used for uprobe.
 Note that using existing group name can conflict with other events. Especially, using the group name reserved for kernel modules can hide embedded events in the
 modules.
 'FUNC' specifies a probed function name, and it may have one of the following options; '+OFFS' is the offset from function entry address in bytes, ':RLN' is the relative-line number from function entry line, and '%return' means that it probes function return. And ';PTN' means lazy matching pattern (see LAZY MATCHING). Note that ';PTN' must be the end of the probe point definition.  In addition, '@SRC' specifies a source file which has that function.
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index 7e582547ac079c0ae2abde96ec31e8394096a707..a68141d360b0df36bcaada376173b206b4b54f6f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -2573,7 +2573,8 @@ int show_perf_probe_events(struct strfilter *filter)
 }
 
 static int get_new_event_name(char *buf, size_t len, const char *base,
-			      struct strlist *namelist, bool allow_suffix)
+			      struct strlist *namelist, bool ret_event,
+			      bool allow_suffix)
 {
 	int i, ret;
 	char *p, *nbase;
@@ -2590,7 +2591,7 @@ static int get_new_event_name(char *buf, size_t len, const char *base,
 		*p = '\0';
 
 	/* Try no suffix number */
-	ret = e_snprintf(buf, len, "%s", nbase);
+	ret = e_snprintf(buf, len, "%s%s", nbase, ret_event ? "__return" : "");
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		pr_debug("snprintf() failed: %d\n", ret);
 		goto out;
@@ -2689,8 +2690,8 @@ static int probe_trace_event__set_name(struct probe_trace_event *tev,
 		group = PERFPROBE_GROUP;
 
 	/* Get an unused new event name */
-	ret = get_new_event_name(buf, 64, event,
-				 namelist, allow_suffix);
+	ret = get_new_event_name(buf, 64, event, namelist,
+				 tev->point.retprobe, allow_suffix);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;