diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
index 8201c0c..5f0ba7c 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 # libaudit support would need scripting to be enabled
 PACKAGECONFIG[audit] = ",NO_LIBAUDIT=1,audit"
 PACKAGECONFIG[manpages] = ",,xmlto-native asciidoc-native"
+PACKAGECONFIG[cap] = ",,libcap"
 
 # libunwind is not yet ported for some architectures
 PACKAGECONFIG_remove_arc = "libunwind"
@@ -105,7 +106,6 @@
 EXTRA_OEMAKE_append_task-configure = " JOBS=1"
 
 PERF_SRC ?= "Makefile \
-             include \
              tools/arch \
              tools/build \
              tools/include \
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@
              tools/Makefile \
              tools/perf \
              tools/scripts \
+             scripts/ \
+             arch/${ARCH}/Makefile \
 "
 
 PERF_EXTRA_LDFLAGS = ""
@@ -151,6 +153,8 @@
         if os.path.isdir(src):
             oe.path.copyhardlinktree(src, dest)
         else:
+            src_path = os.path.dirname(s)
+            os.makedirs(os.path.join(dest_dir,src_path),exist_ok=True)
             bb.utils.copyfile(src, dest)
 }
 
@@ -243,9 +247,6 @@
     # so we copy it from the sysroot unistd.h to the perf unistd.h
     install -D -m0644 ${STAGING_INCDIR}/asm-generic/unistd.h ${S}/tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
     install -D -m0644 ${STAGING_INCDIR}/asm-generic/unistd.h ${S}/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
-
-    # bits.h can have the same issue as unistd.h, so we make the tools variant take precedence
-    [ -e ${S}/tools/include/linux/bits.h ] && install -D -m0644 ${S}/tools/include/linux/bits.h ${S}/include/linux/bits.h
 }
 
 python do_package_prepend() {