diff --git a/samples/bpf/Makefile b/samples/bpf/Makefile
index 1303af10e54d..9ea2f7b64869 100644
--- a/samples/bpf/Makefile
+++ b/samples/bpf/Makefile
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ hostprogs-y += xdp_adjust_tail
 hostprogs-y += xdpsock
 hostprogs-y += xdp_fwd
 hostprogs-y += task_fd_query
+hostprogs-y += xdp_sample_pkts
 
 # Libbpf dependencies
 LIBBPF = $(TOOLS_PATH)/lib/bpf/libbpf.a
@@ -107,6 +108,7 @@ xdp_adjust_tail-objs := xdp_adjust_tail_user.o
 xdpsock-objs := bpf_load.o xdpsock_user.o
 xdp_fwd-objs := bpf_load.o xdp_fwd_user.o
 task_fd_query-objs := bpf_load.o task_fd_query_user.o $(TRACE_HELPERS)
+xdp_sample_pkts-objs := xdp_sample_pkts_user.o $(TRACE_HELPERS)
 
 # Tell kbuild to always build the programs
 always := $(hostprogs-y)
@@ -163,6 +165,7 @@ always += xdp_adjust_tail_kern.o
 always += xdpsock_kern.o
 always += xdp_fwd_kern.o
 always += task_fd_query_kern.o
+always += xdp_sample_pkts_kern.o
 
 HOSTCFLAGS += -I$(objtree)/usr/include
 HOSTCFLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/lib/
@@ -179,6 +182,7 @@ HOSTCFLAGS_spintest_user.o += -I$(srctree)/tools/lib/bpf/
 HOSTCFLAGS_trace_event_user.o += -I$(srctree)/tools/lib/bpf/
 HOSTCFLAGS_sampleip_user.o += -I$(srctree)/tools/lib/bpf/
 HOSTCFLAGS_task_fd_query_user.o += -I$(srctree)/tools/lib/bpf/
+HOSTCFLAGS_xdp_sample_pkts_user.o += -I$(srctree)/tools/lib/bpf/
 
 HOST_LOADLIBES		+= $(LIBBPF) -lelf
 HOSTLOADLIBES_tracex4		+= -lrt
diff --git a/samples/bpf/xdp_sample_pkts_kern.c b/samples/bpf/xdp_sample_pkts_kern.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4560522ca015
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/bpf/xdp_sample_pkts_kern.c
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
+#include <linux/version.h>
+#include <uapi/linux/bpf.h>
+#include "bpf_helpers.h"
+
+#define SAMPLE_SIZE 64ul
+#define MAX_CPUS 24
+
+#define bpf_printk(fmt, ...)					\
+({								\
+	       char ____fmt[] = fmt;				\
+	       bpf_trace_printk(____fmt, sizeof(____fmt),	\
+				##__VA_ARGS__);			\
+})
+
+struct bpf_map_def SEC("maps") my_map = {
+	.type = BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERF_EVENT_ARRAY,
+	.key_size = sizeof(int),
+	.value_size = sizeof(u32),
+	.max_entries = MAX_CPUS,
+};
+
+SEC("xdp_sample")
+int xdp_sample_prog(struct xdp_md *ctx)
+{
+	void *data_end = (void *)(long)ctx->data_end;
+	void *data = (void *)(long)ctx->data;
+
+        /* Metadata will be in the perf event before the packet data. */
+	struct S {
+		u16 cookie;
+		u16 pkt_len;
+	} __attribute__((packed)) metadata;
+
+	if (data + SAMPLE_SIZE < data_end) {
+		/* The XDP perf_event_output handler will use the upper 32 bits
+		 * of the flags argument as a number of bytes to include of the
+		 * packet payload in the event data. If the size is too big, the
+		 * call to bpf_perf_event_output will fail and return -EFAULT.
+		 *
+		 * See bpf_xdp_event_output in net/core/filter.c.
+		 *
+		 * The BPF_F_CURRENT_CPU flag means that the event output fd
+		 * will be indexed by the CPU number in the event map.
+		 */
+		u64 flags = (SAMPLE_SIZE << 32) | BPF_F_CURRENT_CPU;
+		int ret;
+
+		metadata.cookie = 0xdead;
+		metadata.pkt_len = (u16)(data_end - data);
+
+		ret = bpf_perf_event_output(ctx, &my_map, flags,
+				      &metadata, sizeof(metadata));
+		if(ret)
+			bpf_printk("perf_event_output failed: %d\n", ret);
+	}
+
+	return XDP_PASS;
+}
+
+char _license[] SEC("license") = "GPL";
+u32 _version SEC("version") = LINUX_VERSION_CODE;
diff --git a/samples/bpf/xdp_sample_pkts_user.c b/samples/bpf/xdp_sample_pkts_user.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..672392d48ce3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/bpf/xdp_sample_pkts_user.c
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+/* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <poll.h>
+#include <linux/perf_event.h>
+#include <linux/bpf.h>
+#include <net/if.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <assert.h>
+#include <sys/sysinfo.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <time.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <libbpf.h>
+#include <bpf/bpf.h>
+
+#include "perf-sys.h"
+#include "trace_helpers.h"
+
+#define MAX_CPUS 24
+static int pmu_fds[MAX_CPUS], if_idx = 0;
+static struct perf_event_mmap_page *headers[MAX_CPUS];
+static char *if_name;
+
+static int do_attach(int idx, int fd, const char *name)
+{
+	int err;
+
+	err = bpf_set_link_xdp_fd(idx, fd, 0);
+	if (err < 0)
+		printf("ERROR: failed to attach program to %s\n", name);
+
+	return err;
+}
+
+static int do_detach(int idx, const char *name)
+{
+	int err;
+
+	err = bpf_set_link_xdp_fd(idx, -1, 0);
+	if (err < 0)
+		printf("ERROR: failed to detach program from %s\n", name);
+
+	return err;
+}
+
+#define SAMPLE_SIZE 64
+
+static int print_bpf_output(void *data, int size)
+{
+	struct {
+		__u16 cookie;
+		__u16 pkt_len;
+		__u8  pkt_data[SAMPLE_SIZE];
+	} __attribute__((packed)) *e = data;
+	int i;
+
+	if (e->cookie != 0xdead) {
+		printf("BUG cookie %x sized %d\n",
+		       e->cookie, size);
+		return LIBBPF_PERF_EVENT_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	printf("Pkt len: %-5d bytes. Ethernet hdr: ", e->pkt_len);
+	for (i = 0; i < 14 && i < e->pkt_len; i++)
+		printf("%02x ", e->pkt_data[i]);
+	printf("\n");
+
+	return LIBBPF_PERF_EVENT_CONT;
+}
+
+static void test_bpf_perf_event(int map_fd, int num)
+{
+	struct perf_event_attr attr = {
+		.sample_type = PERF_SAMPLE_RAW,
+		.type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE,
+		.config = PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUTPUT,
+		.wakeup_events = 1, /* get an fd notification for every event */
+	};
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
+		int key = i;
+
+		pmu_fds[i] = sys_perf_event_open(&attr, -1/*pid*/, i/*cpu*/, -1/*group_fd*/, 0);
+
+		assert(pmu_fds[i] >= 0);
+		assert(bpf_map_update_elem(map_fd, &key, &pmu_fds[i], BPF_ANY) == 0);
+		ioctl(pmu_fds[i], PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0);
+	}
+}
+
+static void sig_handler(int signo)
+{
+	do_detach(if_idx, if_name);
+	exit(0);
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+	struct bpf_prog_load_attr prog_load_attr = {
+		.prog_type	= BPF_PROG_TYPE_XDP,
+	};
+	struct bpf_object *obj;
+	struct bpf_map *map;
+	int prog_fd, map_fd;
+	char filename[256];
+	int ret, err, i;
+	int numcpus;
+
+	if (argc < 2) {
+		printf("Usage: %s <ifname>\n", argv[0]);
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	numcpus = get_nprocs();
+	if (numcpus > MAX_CPUS)
+		numcpus = MAX_CPUS;
+
+	snprintf(filename, sizeof(filename), "%s_kern.o", argv[0]);
+	prog_load_attr.file = filename;
+
+	if (bpf_prog_load_xattr(&prog_load_attr, &obj, &prog_fd))
+		return 1;
+
+	if (!prog_fd) {
+		printf("load_bpf_file: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	map = bpf_map__next(NULL, obj);
+	if (!map) {
+		printf("finding a map in obj file failed\n");
+		return 1;
+	}
+	map_fd = bpf_map__fd(map);
+
+	if_idx = if_nametoindex(argv[1]);
+	if (!if_idx)
+		if_idx = strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 0);
+
+	if (!if_idx) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "Invalid ifname\n");
+		return 1;
+	}
+	if_name = argv[1];
+	err = do_attach(if_idx, prog_fd, argv[1]);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	if (signal(SIGINT, sig_handler) ||
+	    signal(SIGHUP, sig_handler) ||
+	    signal(SIGTERM, sig_handler)) {
+		perror("signal");
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	test_bpf_perf_event(map_fd, numcpus);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < numcpus; i++)
+		if (perf_event_mmap_header(pmu_fds[i], &headers[i]) < 0)
+			return 1;
+
+	ret = perf_event_poller_multi(pmu_fds, headers, numcpus, print_bpf_output);
+	kill(0, SIGINT);
+	return ret;
+}
