diff --git a/tools/perf/.gitignore b/tools/perf/.gitignore
index 4b9c71faa01a..faa23b5d32f5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/perf/.gitignore
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ perf*.1
 perf*.xml
 perf*.html
 common-cmds.h
-perf.data
-perf.data.old
+perf*.data
+perf*.data.old
 output.svg
 perf-archive
 perf-iostat