diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/pyperf180.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/pyperf180.c
index c39f559d3100..42c4a8b62e36 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/pyperf180.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/pyperf180.c
@@ -1,4 +1,26 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 // Copyright (c) 2019 Facebook
 #define STACK_MAX_LEN 180
+
+/* llvm upstream commit at clang18
+ *   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. Macro __BPF_CPU_VERSION__ is later implemented in clang18
+ * to specify which cpu version is used for compilation. So a smaller
+ * unroll_count can be set if __BPF_CPU_VERSION__ is less than 4, which
+ * reduced some branch target distances and resolved the compilation failure.
+ *
+ * To capture the case where a developer/ci uses clang18 but the corresponding
+ * repo checkpoint does not have __BPF_CPU_VERSION__, a smaller unroll_count
+ * will be set as well to prevent potential compilation failures.
+ */
+#ifdef __BPF_CPU_VERSION__
+#if __BPF_CPU_VERSION__ < 4
+#define UNROLL_COUNT 90
+#endif
+#elif __clang_major__ == 18
+#define UNROLL_COUNT 90
+#endif
+
 #include "pyperf.h"