diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1c044eb320cc4fb6ed4f269ebaaa763794c485e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+* ARM Performance Monitor Units
+
+ARM cores often have a PMU for counting cpu and cache events like cache misses
+and hits. The interface to the PMU is part of the ARM ARM. The ARM PMU
+representation in the device tree should be done as under:-
+
+Required properties:
+
+- compatible : should be one of
+	"arm,cortex-a9-pmu"
+	"arm,cortex-a8-pmu"
+	"arm,arm1176-pmu"
+	"arm,arm1136-pmu"
+- interrupts : 1 combined interrupt or 1 per core.
+
+Example:
+
+pmu {
+        compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-pmu";
+        interrupts = <100 101>;
+};
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c b/arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c
index de6b1b0860c2b2cd97f407410ba31f9381b019f1..2ce00be697eaa668ce453db78782660800b1f1d8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/of_device.h>
 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
 
 #include <asm/pmu.h>
@@ -45,14 +46,45 @@ static int __devinit pmu_register(struct platform_device *pdev,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#define OF_MATCH_PMU(_name, _type) {	\
+	.compatible = _name,		\
+	.data = (void *)_type,		\
+}
+
+#define OF_MATCH_CPU(name)	OF_MATCH_PMU(name, ARM_PMU_DEVICE_CPU)
+
+static struct of_device_id armpmu_of_device_ids[] = {
+	OF_MATCH_CPU("arm,cortex-a9-pmu"),
+	OF_MATCH_CPU("arm,cortex-a8-pmu"),
+	OF_MATCH_CPU("arm,arm1136-pmu"),
+	OF_MATCH_CPU("arm,arm1176-pmu"),
+	{},
+};
+
+enum arm_pmu_type armpmu_device_type(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+	const struct of_device_id	*of_id;
+
+	/* provided by of_device_id table */
+	if (pdev->dev.of_node) {
+		of_id = of_match_device(armpmu_of_device_ids, &pdev->dev);
+		BUG_ON(!of_id);
+		return (enum arm_pmu_type)of_id->data;
+	}
+
+	/* Provided by a 'legacy' platform_device */
+	return ARM_PMU_DEVICE_CPU;
+}
+
 static int __devinit armpmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
-	return pmu_register(pdev, ARM_PMU_DEVICE_CPU);
+	return pmu_register(pdev, armpmu_device_type(pdev));
 }
 
 static struct platform_driver armpmu_driver = {
 	.driver		= {
 		.name	= "arm-pmu",
+		.of_match_table = armpmu_of_device_ids,
 	},
 	.probe		= armpmu_device_probe,
 };