diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/s390/Makefile b/tools/perf/arch/s390/Makefile
index 15130b50dfe3be2fea6a975a102283f6d33e4887..744e629797be9cdbe39b7285d71893b8030795aa 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/s390/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/s390/Makefile
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ ifndef NO_DWARF
 PERF_HAVE_DWARF_REGS := 1
 LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)arch/$(ARCH)/util/dwarf-regs.o
 endif
+LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)arch/$(ARCH)/util/header.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/header.c b/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/header.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9fa6c3e5782c39093c2cb5767015fdf2d0256de4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/s390/util/header.c
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/*
+ * Implementation of get_cpuid().
+ *
+ * Copyright 2014 IBM Corp.
+ * Author(s): Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2 only)
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include "../../util/header.h"
+
+int get_cpuid(char *buffer, size_t sz)
+{
+	const char *cpuid = "IBM/S390";
+
+	if (strlen(cpuid) + 1 > sz)
+		return -1;
+
+	strcpy(buffer, cpuid);
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/perf-sys.h b/tools/perf/perf-sys.h
index 5268a1481d23287a5d97ac791bc63283f2945d7e..937e4324ad94ed601bb43a2d12489c2f90eb841b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf-sys.h
+++ b/tools/perf/perf-sys.h
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
 #define mb()		asm volatile("bcr 15,0" ::: "memory")
 #define wmb()		asm volatile("bcr 15,0" ::: "memory")
 #define rmb()		asm volatile("bcr 15,0" ::: "memory")
+#define CPUINFO_PROC	"vendor_id"
 #endif
 
 #ifdef __sh__