diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index b800fc6f4d..97aef0f344 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -448,13 +448,10 @@ menu "Global build settings"
 			  the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
 			  will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
 
-		config KERNEL_PERF_EVENTS
-			bool
-			default y if KERNEL_CGROUP_PERF
-
 		config KERNEL_CGROUP_PERF
 			bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
 			default n
+			select KERNEL_PERF_EVENTS
 			help
 			  This option extends the per-cpu mode to restrict monitoring to
 			  threads which belong to the cgroup specified and run on the