3 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/Build b/tools/perf/util/Build
index ecd9f9ceda77..b7bf201fe8a8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/util/Build
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ libperf-y += evlist.o
 libperf-y += evsel.o
 libperf-y += evsel_fprintf.o
 libperf-y += find_bit.o
+libperf-y += get_current_dir_name.o
 libperf-y += kallsyms.o
 libperf-y += levenshtein.o
 libperf-y += llvm-utils.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/get_current_dir_name.c b/tools/perf/util/get_current_dir_name.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..267aa609a582
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/util/get_current_dir_name.c
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+// Copyright (C) 2018, Red Hat Inc, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
+//
+#ifndef HAVE_GET_CURRENT_DIR_NAME
+#include "util.h"
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+/* Android's 'bionic' library, for one, doesn't have this */
+
+char *get_current_dir_name(void)
+{
+	char pwd[PATH_MAX];
+
+	return getcwd(pwd, sizeof(pwd)) == NULL ? NULL : strdup(pwd);
+}
+#endif // HAVE_GET_CURRENT_DIR_NAME
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.h b/tools/perf/util/util.h
index 14508ee7707a..ece040b799f6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.h
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ int fetch_kernel_version(unsigned int *puint,
 
 const char *perf_tip(const char *dirpath);
 
+#ifndef HAVE_GET_CURRENT_DIR_NAME
+char *get_current_dir_name(void);
+#endif
+
 #ifndef HAVE_SCHED_GETCPU_SUPPORT
 int sched_getcpu(void);
 #endif