diff --git a/samples/bpf/Makefile b/samples/bpf/Makefile
index 036998d11ded..ff1932e16bc5 100644
--- a/samples/bpf/Makefile
+++ b/samples/bpf/Makefile
@@ -276,6 +276,11 @@ $(LIBBPF): FORCE
 	$(MAKE) -C $(dir $@) RM='rm -rf' EXTRA_CFLAGS="$(TPROGS_CFLAGS)" \
 		LDFLAGS=$(TPROGS_LDFLAGS) srctree=$(BPF_SAMPLES_PATH)/../../ O=
 
+BPFTOOLDIR := $(TOOLS_PATH)/bpf/bpftool
+BPFTOOL := $(BPFTOOLDIR)/bpftool
+$(BPFTOOL): $(wildcard $(BPFTOOLDIR)/*.[ch] $(BPFTOOLDIR)/Makefile)
+	    $(MAKE) -C $(BPFTOOLDIR) srctree=$(BPF_SAMPLES_PATH)/../../
+
 $(obj)/syscall_nrs.h:	$(obj)/syscall_nrs.s FORCE
 	$(call filechk,offsets,__SYSCALL_NRS_H__)
 
@@ -313,6 +318,26 @@ $(obj)/hbm_edt_kern.o: $(src)/hbm.h $(src)/hbm_kern.h
 
 -include $(BPF_SAMPLES_PATH)/Makefile.target
 
+VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS ?= $(if $(O),$(O)/vmlinux)				\
+		     $(if $(KBUILD_OUTPUT),$(KBUILD_OUTPUT)/vmlinux)	\
+		     ../../../../vmlinux				\
+		     /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux				\
+		     /boot/vmlinux-$(shell uname -r)
+VMLINUX_BTF ?= $(abspath $(firstword $(wildcard $(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS))))
+
+ifeq ($(VMLINUX_BTF),)
+$(error Cannot find a vmlinux for VMLINUX_BTF at any of "$(VMLINUX_BTF_PATHS)")
+endif
+
+$(obj)/vmlinux.h: $(VMLINUX_BTF) $(BPFTOOL)
+ifeq ($(VMLINUX_H),)
+	$(Q)$(BPFTOOL) btf dump file $(VMLINUX_BTF) format c > $@
+else
+	$(Q)cp "$(VMLINUX_H)" $@
+endif
+
+clean-files += vmlinux.h
+
 # asm/sysreg.h - inline assembly used by it is incompatible with llvm.
 # But, there is no easy way to fix it, so just exclude it since it is
 # useless for BPF samples.