diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/test/arch-std-events.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/test/arch-std-events.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..43f6f729d6ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/test/arch-std-events.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[
+    {
+        "PublicDescription": "Attributable Level 3 cache access, read",
+        "EventCode": "0x40",
+        "EventName": "L3_CACHE_RD",
+        "BriefDescription": "L3 cache access, read"
+    }
+]
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/test/test_cpu/cache.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/test/test_cpu/cache.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..036d0efdb2bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/test/test_cpu/cache.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[
+    {
+	 "ArchStdEvent": "L3_CACHE_RD"
+    }
+]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
index 7326c14c4623..72cfa3b5046d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
@@ -1162,6 +1162,10 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	sprintf(ldirname, "%s/test", start_dirname);
 
+	rc = nftw(ldirname, preprocess_arch_std_files, maxfds, 0);
+	if (rc)
+		goto err_processing_std_arch_event_dir;
+
 	rc = nftw(ldirname, process_one_file, maxfds, 0);
 	if (rc)
 		goto err_processing_dir;
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c b/tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c
index d3517a74d95e..ad2b21591275 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c
@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@
 #include "util/parse-events.h"
 
 struct perf_pmu_test_event {
+	/* used for matching against events from generated pmu-events.c */
 	struct pmu_event event;
 
+	/* used for matching against event aliases */
 	/* extra events for aliases */
 	const char *alias_str;
 
@@ -78,6 +80,17 @@ static struct perf_pmu_test_event test_cpu_events[] = {
 		.alias_str = "umask=0,(null)=0x30d40,event=0x3a",
 		.alias_long_desc = "Number of Enhanced Intel SpeedStep(R) Technology (EIST) transitions",
 	},
+	{
+		.event = {
+			.name = "l3_cache_rd",
+			.event = "event=0x40",
+			.desc = "L3 cache access, read",
+			.long_desc = "Attributable Level 3 cache access, read",
+			.topic = "cache",
+		},
+		.alias_str = "event=0x40",
+		.alias_long_desc = "Attributable Level 3 cache access, read",
+	},
 	{ /* sentinel */
 		.event = {
 			.name = NULL,
@@ -357,6 +370,7 @@ static int __test__pmu_event_aliases(char *pmu_name, int *count)
 }
 
 
+/* Test that aliases generated are as expected */
 static int test_aliases(void)
 {
 	struct perf_pmu *pmu = NULL;