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diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 1e67ab9c7eb..6ce4042421b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -1247,6 +1247,8 @@ try_again:
die("Permission error - are you root?\n"
"\t Consider tweaking"
" /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.\n");
+ if (err == ENOENT)
+ die("%s event is not supported. ", event_name(evsel));
/*
* If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer
* based cpu-clock-tick sw counter, which