diff --git a/tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h b/tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h
index 2873cdde293f..1f632b56bb34 100644
--- a/tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h
+++ b/tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h
@@ -4,6 +4,20 @@
 
 #include <uapi/linux/bpf.h>
 
+/*
+ * A helper structure used by eBPF C program to describe map attributes to
+ * elf_bpf loader, taken from tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_helpers.h:
+ */
+struct bpf_map {
+        unsigned int type;
+        unsigned int key_size;
+        unsigned int value_size;
+        unsigned int max_entries;
+        unsigned int map_flags;
+        unsigned int inner_map_idx;
+        unsigned int numa_node;
+};
+
 #define SEC(NAME) __attribute__((section(NAME),  used))
 
 #define probe(function, vars) \