diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/workloads/noploop.c b/tools/perf/tests/workloads/noploop.c
index 940ea5910a84..656e472e6188 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/workloads/noploop.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/workloads/noploop.c
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#include <pthread.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ static int noploop(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
 	int sec = 1;
 
+	pthread_setname_np(pthread_self(), "perf-noploop");
 	if (argc > 0)
 		sec = atoi(argv[0]);