diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/pyperf180.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/pyperf180.c
index c39f559d3100e..3c38f3e128360 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/pyperf180.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/pyperf180.c
@@ -1,4 +1,17 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 // Copyright (c) 2019 Facebook
 #define STACK_MAX_LEN 180
+
+/* llvm upstream commit at llvm18
+ *   https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/1a2e77cf9e11dbf56b5720c607313a566eebb16e
+ * changed inlining behavior and caused compilation failure as some branch
+ * target distance exceeded 16bit representation which is the maximum for
+ * cpu v1/v2/v3. To workaround this, for llvm18 and later, let us set unroll_count
+ * to be 90, which reduced some branch target distances and resolved the
+ * compilation failure.
+ */
+#if __clang_major__ >= 18
+#define UNROLL_COUNT 90
+#endif
+
 #include "pyperf.h"