diff --git a/tools/perf/config/Makefile b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
index 2f1d7d78f744..ffb5f55c8fba 100644
--- a/tools/perf/config/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
@@ -25,9 +25,11 @@ ifeq ($(ARCH),x86_64)
     RAW_ARCH := x86_64
     CFLAGS += -DHAVE_ARCH_X86_64_SUPPORT
     ARCH_INCLUDE = ../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S ../../arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S
+    LIBUNWIND_LIBS = -lunwind -lunwind-x86_64
+  else
+    LIBUNWIND_LIBS = -lunwind -lunwind-x86
   endif
   NO_PERF_REGS := 0
-  LIBUNWIND_LIBS = -lunwind -lunwind-x86_64
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(NO_PERF_REGS),0)
@@ -96,7 +98,7 @@ endif
 
 feature_check = $(eval $(feature_check_code))
 define feature_check_code
-  feature-$(1) := $(shell $(MAKE) OUTPUT=$(OUTPUT_FEATURES) CFLAGS="$(EXTRA_CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) -C config/feature-checks test-$1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo 1 || echo 0)
+  feature-$(1) := $(shell $(MAKE) OUTPUT=$(OUTPUT_FEATURES) CFLAGS="$(EXTRA_CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) LIBUNWIND_LIBS="$(LIBUNWIND_LIBS)" -C config/feature-checks test-$1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo 1 || echo 0)
 endef
 
 feature_set = $(eval $(feature_set_code))
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/Makefile b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/Makefile
index 353c00cde4d6..d37d58d273fe 100644
--- a/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/config/feature-checks/Makefile
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ BUILD = $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(OUTPUT)$@ $@.c
 ###############################
 
 test-all:
-	$(BUILD) -Werror -fstack-protector -fstack-protector-all -O2 -Werror -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -ldw -lelf -lnuma -lunwind -lunwind-x86_64 -lelf -laudit -I/usr/include/slang -lslang $(shell pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0 2>/dev/null) $(FLAGS_PERL_EMBED) $(FLAGS_PYTHON_EMBED) -DPACKAGE='"perf"' -lbfd -ldl
+	$(BUILD) -Werror -fstack-protector -fstack-protector-all -O2 -Werror -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -ldw -lelf -lnuma $(LIBUNWIND_LIBS) -lelf -laudit -I/usr/include/slang -lslang $(shell pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0 2>/dev/null) $(FLAGS_PERL_EMBED) $(FLAGS_PYTHON_EMBED) -DPACKAGE='"perf"' -lbfd -ldl
 
 test-hello:
 	$(BUILD)
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ test-libnuma:
 	$(BUILD) -lnuma
 
 test-libunwind:
-	$(BUILD) -lunwind -lunwind-x86_64 -lelf
+	$(BUILD) $(LIBUNWIND_LIBS) -lelf
 
 test-libaudit:
 	$(BUILD) -laudit