diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
index e20c1c6acc7315b26f807b48b18ffd034aa23932..a3954be7b1f3bf738f9d36cea23fcc0c85fd2d1e 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
@@ -1253,8 +1253,18 @@ static void arm_trbe_register_coresight_cpu(struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata, int cp
 	desc.name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "trbe%d", cpu);
 	if (!desc.name)
 		goto cpu_clear;
-
-	desc.pdata = coresight_get_platform_data(dev);
+	/*
+	 * TRBE coresight devices do not need regular connections
+	 * information, as the paths get built between all percpu
+	 * source and their respective percpu sink devices. Though
+	 * coresight_register() expect device connections via the
+	 * platform_data, which TRBE devices do not have. As they
+	 * are not real ACPI devices, coresight_get_platform_data()
+	 * ends up failing. Instead let's allocate a dummy zeroed
+	 * coresight_platform_data structure and assign that back
+	 * into the device for that purpose.
+	 */
+	desc.pdata = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*desc.pdata), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (IS_ERR(desc.pdata))
 		goto cpu_clear;
 
@@ -1536,7 +1546,16 @@ static const struct of_device_id arm_trbe_of_match[] = {
 };
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, arm_trbe_of_match);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
+static const struct platform_device_id arm_trbe_acpi_match[] = {
+	{ ARMV8_TRBE_PDEV_NAME, 0 },
+	{ }
+};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, arm_trbe_acpi_match);
+#endif
+
 static struct platform_driver arm_trbe_driver = {
+	.id_table = ACPI_PTR(arm_trbe_acpi_match),
 	.driver	= {
 		.name = DRVNAME,
 		.of_match_table = of_match_ptr(arm_trbe_of_match),
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.h b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.h
index e915e749be55150d95f44e19fd1a874d190174b2..45202c48accec7c86ba56130e2737bc2d1830fae 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.h
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.h
@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@
  *
  * Author: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
  */
+#include <linux/acpi.h>
 #include <linux/coresight.h>
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/irq.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/of.h>
+#include <linux/perf/arm_pmu.h>
 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>