diff --git a/tools/perf/.gitignore b/tools/perf/.gitignore
index 3db3db9278be6f52af6bb9935eb7698eb1fc2f79..643cc4ba6872511d7941fad057ac875f5382deb2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/perf/.gitignore
@@ -31,3 +31,5 @@ config.mak.autogen
 .config-detected
 util/intel-pt-decoder/inat-tables.c
 arch/*/include/generated/
+pmu-events/pmu-events.c
+pmu-events/jevents