diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
index 8853c95ef0d4e378882a126362f16e53a48dfda3..f40c4b5a181b4f610f78a8215a0b040ebe358249 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ problems and bugs in particular.
    ramoops
    dynamic-debug-howto
    init
+   perf/index
 
 This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
 application developers.  Documents covering various aspects of the kernel
diff --git a/Documentation/perf/arm-ccn.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/arm-ccn.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/perf/arm-ccn.rst
rename to Documentation/admin-guide/perf/arm-ccn.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/perf/arm_dsu_pmu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/arm_dsu_pmu.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/perf/arm_dsu_pmu.rst
rename to Documentation/admin-guide/perf/arm_dsu_pmu.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/perf/hisi-pmu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/perf/hisi-pmu.rst
rename to Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/perf/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/index.rst
similarity index 95%
rename from Documentation/perf/index.rst
rename to Documentation/admin-guide/perf/index.rst
index 4bf848e27f26f32ccc3dd11b26094e4a69ef8c89..9d445451ea1884984b5e2e882941413fa86099db 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/index.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-:orphan:
-
 ===========================
 Performance monitor support
 ===========================
diff --git a/Documentation/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.rst
rename to Documentation/admin-guide/perf/qcom_l2_pmu.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.rst
rename to Documentation/admin-guide/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/perf/thunderx2-pmu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/thunderx2-pmu.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/perf/thunderx2-pmu.rst
rename to Documentation/admin-guide/perf/thunderx2-pmu.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/perf/xgene-pmu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/xgene-pmu.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/perf/xgene-pmu.rst
rename to Documentation/admin-guide/perf/xgene-pmu.rst
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index db96cd4a229bd357be9033a73878ae67fe947e95..b8ce346d5254e3bcd96b700989f7d4dcfc3b70f3 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ APPLIED MICRO (APM) X-GENE SOC PMU
 M:	Khuong Dinh <khuong@os.amperecomputing.com>
 S:	Supported
 F:	drivers/perf/xgene_pmu.c
-F:	Documentation/perf/xgene-pmu.rst
+F:	Documentation/admin-guide/perf/xgene-pmu.rst
 F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/perf/apm-xgene-pmu.txt
 
 APTINA CAMERA SENSOR PLL
@@ -7262,7 +7262,7 @@ M:	Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com>
 W:	http://www.hisilicon.com
 S:	Supported
 F:	drivers/perf/hisilicon
-F:	Documentation/perf/hisi-pmu.rst
+F:	Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst
 
 HISILICON ROCE DRIVER
 M:	Lijun Ou <oulijun@huawei.com>
diff --git a/drivers/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.c
index 90f88ce5192bef3de48dd9c58a278c216370bd7e..656e830798d9e79ce9bcd050407b0df117a31ff3 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  * the slices. User space needs to aggregate to individual counts to provide
  * a global picture.
  *
- * See Documentation/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.rst for more details.
+ * See Documentation/admin-guide/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.rst for more details.
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2015-2017, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
  */