diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.S b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.S
index cb9217063776ee5d13fbecbd5f4e8184ce47f4d4..9e5af89ed13af64bed89e46e7a8df1e1b6a52298 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.S
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.S
@@ -4,3 +4,10 @@
 #define Lmemset_c globl memset_c; memset_c
 #define Lmemset_c_e globl memset_c_e; memset_c_e
 #include "../../../arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S"
+
+/*
+ * We need to provide note.GNU-stack section, saying that we want
+ * NOT executable stack. Otherwise the final linking will assume that
+ * the ELF stack should not be restricted at all and set it RWX.
+ */
+.section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits