diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
index e86e210bf5146..b7945e5a543ba 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 perf-y += header.o
+perf-y += machine.o
 perf-y += kvm-stat.o
 perf-y += perf_regs.o
 perf-y += mem-events.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/machine.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..c30e5cc88c167
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/machine.c
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <internal/lib.h> // page_size
+#include "debug.h"
+#include "symbol.h"
+
+/* On powerpc kernel text segment start at memory addresses, 0xc000000000000000
+ * whereas the modules are located at very high memory addresses,
+ * for example 0xc00800000xxxxxxx. The gap between end of kernel text segment
+ * and beginning of first module's text segment is very high.
+ * Therefore do not fill this gap and do not assign it to the kernel dso map.
+ */
+
+void arch__symbols__fixup_end(struct symbol *p, struct symbol *c)
+{
+	if (strchr(p->name, '[') == NULL && strchr(c->name, '['))
+		/* Limit the range of last kernel symbol */
+		p->end += page_size;
+	else
+		p->end = c->start;
+	pr_debug4("%s sym:%s end:%#lx\n", __func__, p->name, p->end);
+}