diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index 972695e359eb..bd7b64d252dc 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ config MIPS
 	select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
 	select HAVE_IDE
 	select HAVE_OPROFILE
+	select HAVE_IRQ_WORK
 	select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
 	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
 	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/perf_event.h
index e00007cf8162..d0c77496c728 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/perf_event.h
@@ -11,15 +11,5 @@
 
 #ifndef __MIPS_PERF_EVENT_H__
 #define __MIPS_PERF_EVENT_H__
-
-/*
- * MIPS performance counters do not raise NMI upon overflow, a regular
- * interrupt will be signaled. Hence we can do the pending perf event
- * work at the tail of the irq handler.
- */
-static inline void
-set_perf_event_pending(void)
-{
-}
-
+/* Leave it empty here. The file is required by linux/perf_event.h */
 #endif /* __MIPS_PERF_EVENT_H__ */
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event_mipsxx.c b/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event_mipsxx.c
index 183e0d226669..d45ea37062bc 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event_mipsxx.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/perf_event_mipsxx.c
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ static int mipsxx_pmu_handle_shared_irq(void)
 	 * interrupt, not NMI.
 	 */
 	if (handled == IRQ_HANDLED)
-		perf_event_do_pending();
+		irq_work_run();
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_MT_SMP
 	read_unlock(&pmuint_rwlock);