diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 7a2345ce8521..85242fdd3b8c 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1890,6 +1890,7 @@ F:	Documentation/trace/coresight/*
 F:	drivers/hwtracing/coresight/*
 F:	include/dt-bindings/arm/coresight-cti-dt.h
 F:	include/linux/coresight*
+F:	samples/coresight/*
 F:	tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c
 F:	tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c
 F:	tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.h
diff --git a/samples/Kconfig b/samples/Kconfig
index bec3528aa2de..fe8b56d576ce 100644
--- a/samples/Kconfig
+++ b/samples/Kconfig
@@ -232,6 +232,15 @@ config SAMPLE_WATCH_QUEUE
 	  Build example userspace program to use the new mount_notify(),
 	  sb_notify() syscalls and the KEYCTL_WATCH_KEY keyctl() function.
 
+config SAMPLE_CORESIGHT_SYSCFG
+	tristate "Build example loadable module for CoreSight config"
+	depends on CORESIGHT && m
+	help
+	  Build an example loadable module that adds new CoreSight features
+	  and configuration using the CoreSight system configuration API.
+	  This demonstrates how a user may create their own CoreSight
+	  configurations and easily load them into the system at runtime.
+
 endif # SAMPLES
 
 config HAVE_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT
diff --git a/samples/Makefile b/samples/Makefile
index b7b98307c2b4..c148ada64beb 100644
--- a/samples/Makefile
+++ b/samples/Makefile
@@ -32,3 +32,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_INTEL_MEI)		+= mei/
 subdir-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_WATCHDOG)	+= watchdog
 subdir-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_WATCH_QUEUE)	+= watch_queue
 obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST)	+= kmemleak/
+obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_CORESIGHT_SYSCFG)	+= coresight/
diff --git a/samples/coresight/Makefile b/samples/coresight/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b3fce4af2347
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/coresight/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_CORESIGHT_SYSCFG) += coresight-cfg-sample.o
+ccflags-y += -I$(srctree)/drivers/hwtracing/coresight
diff --git a/samples/coresight/coresight-cfg-sample.c b/samples/coresight/coresight-cfg-sample.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..25485c80b5e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/coresight/coresight-cfg-sample.c
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Copyright(C) 2020 Linaro Limited. All rights reserved.
+ * Author: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
+ */
+
+#include "coresight-config.h"
+#include "coresight-syscfg.h"
+
+/* create an alternate autofdo configuration */
+
+/* we will provide 4 sets of preset parameter values */
+#define AFDO2_NR_PRESETS	4
+/* the total number of parameters in used features - strobing has 2 */
+#define AFDO2_NR_PARAM_SUM	2
+
+static const char *afdo2_ref_names[] = {
+	"strobing",
+};
+
+/*
+ * set of presets leaves strobing window constant while varying period to allow
+ * experimentation with mark / space ratios for various workloads
+ */
+static u64 afdo2_presets[AFDO2_NR_PRESETS][AFDO2_NR_PARAM_SUM] = {
+	{ 1000, 100 },
+	{ 1000, 1000 },
+	{ 1000, 5000 },
+	{ 1000, 10000 },
+};
+
+struct cscfg_config_desc afdo2 = {
+	.name = "autofdo2",
+	.description = "Setup ETMs with strobing for autofdo\n"
+	"Supplied presets allow experimentation with mark-space ratio for various loads\n",
+	.nr_feat_refs = ARRAY_SIZE(afdo2_ref_names),
+	.feat_ref_names = afdo2_ref_names,
+	.nr_presets = AFDO2_NR_PRESETS,
+	.nr_total_params = AFDO2_NR_PARAM_SUM,
+	.presets = &afdo2_presets[0][0],
+};
+
+static struct cscfg_feature_desc *sample_feats[] = {
+	NULL
+};
+
+static struct cscfg_config_desc *sample_cfgs[] = {
+	&afdo2,
+	NULL
+};
+
+static struct cscfg_load_owner_info mod_owner = {
+	.type = CSCFG_OWNER_MODULE,
+	.owner_handle = THIS_MODULE,
+};
+
+/* module init and exit - just load and unload configs */
+static int __init cscfg_sample_init(void)
+{
+	return cscfg_load_config_sets(sample_cfgs, sample_feats, &mod_owner);
+}
+
+static void __exit cscfg_sample_exit(void)
+{
+	cscfg_unload_config_sets(&mod_owner);
+}
+
+module_init(cscfg_sample_init);
+module_exit(cscfg_sample_exit);
+
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CoreSight Syscfg Example");