diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt
index f04f0eaded985fc8..ca5789625cd2b8e5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-bench.txt
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ SUBSYSTEM
 'internals'::
 	Benchmark internal perf functionality.
 
+'uprobe'::
+	Benchmark overhead of uprobe + BPF.
+
 'all'::
 	All benchmark subsystems.
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/Build b/tools/perf/bench/Build
index 0f158dc8139bbd0d..47412d47dccfeff2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/Build
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ perf-y += inject-buildid.o
 perf-y += evlist-open-close.o
 perf-y += breakpoint.o
 perf-y += pmu-scan.o
+perf-y += uprobe.o
 
 perf-$(CONFIG_X86_64) += mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o
 perf-$(CONFIG_X86_64) += mem-memset-x86-64-asm.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/bench.h b/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
index 0d2b65976212333a..201311f75c964df2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/bench.h
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ int bench_inject_build_id(int argc, const char **argv);
 int bench_evlist_open_close(int argc, const char **argv);
 int bench_breakpoint_thread(int argc, const char **argv);
 int bench_breakpoint_enable(int argc, const char **argv);
+int bench_uprobe_baseline(int argc, const char **argv);
 int bench_pmu_scan(int argc, const char **argv);
 
 #define BENCH_FORMAT_DEFAULT_STR	"default"
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/uprobe.c b/tools/perf/bench/uprobe.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000..707174220a76701f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/uprobe.c
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
+/*
+ * uprobe.c
+ *
+ * uprobe benchmarks
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 2023, Red Hat Inc, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
+ */
+#include "../perf.h"
+#include "../util/util.h"
+#include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
+#include "../builtin.h"
+#include "bench.h"
+#include <linux/time64.h>
+
+#include <inttypes.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <time.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#define LOOPS_DEFAULT 1000
+static int loops = LOOPS_DEFAULT;
+
+static const struct option options[] = {
+	OPT_INTEGER('l', "loop",	&loops,		"Specify number of loops"),
+	OPT_END()
+};
+
+static const char * const bench_uprobe_usage[] = {
+	"perf bench uprobe <options>",
+	NULL
+};
+
+static int bench_uprobe(int argc, const char **argv)
+{
+	const char *name = "usleep(1000)", *unit = "usec";
+	struct timespec start, end;
+	u64 diff;
+	int i;
+
+	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, bench_uprobe_usage, 0);
+
+	clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &start);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < loops; i++) {
+		usleep(USEC_PER_MSEC);
+	}
+
+	clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &end);
+
+	diff = end.tv_sec * NSEC_PER_SEC + end.tv_nsec - (start.tv_sec * NSEC_PER_SEC + start.tv_nsec);
+	diff /= NSEC_PER_USEC;
+
+	switch (bench_format) {
+	case BENCH_FORMAT_DEFAULT:
+		printf("# Executed %'d %s calls\n", loops, name);
+		printf(" %14s: %'" PRIu64 " %ss\n\n", "Total time", diff, unit);
+		printf(" %'.3f %ss/op\n", (double)diff / (double)loops, unit);
+		break;
+
+	case BENCH_FORMAT_SIMPLE:
+		printf("%" PRIu64 "\n", diff);
+		break;
+
+	default:
+		/* reaching here is something of a disaster */
+		fprintf(stderr, "Unknown format:%d\n", bench_format);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int bench_uprobe_baseline(int argc, const char **argv)
+{
+	return bench_uprobe(argc, argv);
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
index db435b791a09b69b..09637aee83413e63 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ static struct bench breakpoint_benchmarks[] = {
 	{ NULL,	NULL, NULL },
 };
 
+static struct bench uprobe_benchmarks[] = {
+	{ "baseline",	"Baseline libc usleep(1000) call",	bench_uprobe_baseline,	},
+	{ NULL,	NULL, NULL },
+};
+
 struct collection {
 	const char	*name;
 	const char	*summary;
@@ -123,6 +128,7 @@ static struct collection collections[] = {
 #endif
 	{ "internals",	"Perf-internals benchmarks",			internals_benchmarks	},
 	{ "breakpoint",	"Breakpoint benchmarks",			breakpoint_benchmarks	},
+	{ "uprobe",	"uprobe benchmarks",				uprobe_benchmarks	},
 	{ "all",	"All benchmarks",				NULL			},
 	{ NULL,		NULL,						NULL			}
 };
