diff --git a/fs/tracefs/Makefile b/fs/tracefs/Makefile
index 7c35a282b484..73c56da8e284 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/Makefile
+++ b/fs/tracefs/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 tracefs-objs	:= inode.o
+tracefs-objs	+= event_inode.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING)	+= tracefs.o
 
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4e7a8eccaa0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -0,0 +1,217 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ *  event_inode.c - part of tracefs, a pseudo file system for activating tracing
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 2020-22 VMware Inc, author: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
+ *  Copyright (C) 2020-22 VMware Inc, author: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com>
+ *
+ *  eventfs is used to show trace events with one set of dentries
+ *
+ *  eventfs stores meta-data of files/dirs and skip to create object of
+ *  inodes/dentries. As and when requires, eventfs will create the
+ *  inodes/dentries for only required files/directories. Also eventfs
+ *  would delete the inodes/dentries once no more requires but preserve
+ *  the meta data.
+ */
+#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/namei.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
+#include <linux/tracefs.h>
+#include <linux/kref.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include "internal.h"
+
+struct eventfs_inode {
+	struct list_head	e_top_files;
+};
+
+struct eventfs_file {
+	const char			*name;
+	struct dentry			*d_parent;
+	struct dentry			*dentry;
+	struct list_head		list;
+	struct eventfs_inode		*ei;
+	const struct file_operations	*fop;
+	const struct inode_operations	*iop;
+	union {
+		struct rcu_head		rcu;
+		struct llist_node	llist;  /* For freeing after RCU */
+	};
+	void				*data;
+	umode_t				mode;
+	bool				created;
+};
+
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(eventfs_mutex);
+
+static const struct file_operations eventfs_file_operations = {
+};
+
+static const struct inode_operations eventfs_root_dir_inode_operations = {
+};
+
+/**
+ * eventfs_prepare_ef - helper function to prepare eventfs_file
+ * @name: the name of the file/directory to create.
+ * @mode: the permission that the file should have.
+ * @fop: struct file_operations that should be used for this file/directory.
+ * @iop: struct inode_operations that should be used for this file/directory.
+ * @data: something that the caller will want to get to later on. The
+ *        inode.i_private pointer will point to this value on the open() call.
+ *
+ * This function allocates and fills the eventfs_file structure.
+ */
+static struct eventfs_file *eventfs_prepare_ef(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+					const struct file_operations *fop,
+					const struct inode_operations *iop,
+					void *data)
+{
+	struct eventfs_file *ef;
+
+	ef = kzalloc(sizeof(*ef), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ef)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+	ef->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ef->name) {
+		kfree(ef);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	}
+
+	if (S_ISDIR(mode)) {
+		ef->ei = kzalloc(sizeof(*ef->ei), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!ef->ei) {
+			kfree(ef->name);
+			kfree(ef);
+			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+		}
+		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ef->ei->e_top_files);
+	} else {
+		ef->ei = NULL;
+	}
+
+	ef->iop = iop;
+	ef->fop = fop;
+	ef->mode = mode;
+	ef->data = data;
+	return ef;
+}
+
+/**
+ * eventfs_create_events_dir - create the trace event structure
+ * @name: the name of the directory to create.
+ * @parent: parent dentry for this file.  This should be a directory dentry
+ *          if set.  If this parameter is NULL, then the directory will be
+ *          created in the root of the tracefs filesystem.
+ *
+ * This function creates the top of the trace event directory.
+ */
+struct dentry *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name,
+					 struct dentry *parent)
+{
+	struct dentry *dentry = tracefs_start_creating(name, parent);
+	struct eventfs_inode *ei;
+	struct tracefs_inode *ti;
+	struct inode *inode;
+
+	if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+		return dentry;
+
+	ei = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ei)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	inode = tracefs_get_inode(dentry->d_sb);
+	if (unlikely(!inode)) {
+		kfree(ei);
+		tracefs_failed_creating(dentry);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	}
+
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ei->e_top_files);
+
+	ti = get_tracefs(inode);
+	ti->flags |= TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE;
+	ti->private = ei;
+
+	inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO;
+	inode->i_op = &eventfs_root_dir_inode_operations;
+	inode->i_fop = &eventfs_file_operations;
+
+	/* directory inodes start off with i_nlink == 2 (for "." entry) */
+	inc_nlink(inode);
+	d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
+	inc_nlink(dentry->d_parent->d_inode);
+	fsnotify_mkdir(dentry->d_parent->d_inode, dentry);
+	return tracefs_end_creating(dentry);
+}
+
+/**
+ * eventfs_add_subsystem_dir - add eventfs subsystem_dir to list to create later
+ * @name: the name of the file to create.
+ * @parent: parent dentry for this dir.
+ *
+ * This function adds eventfs subsystem dir to list.
+ * And all these dirs are created on the fly when they are looked up,
+ * and the dentry and inodes will be removed when they are done.
+ */
+struct eventfs_file *eventfs_add_subsystem_dir(const char *name,
+					       struct dentry *parent)
+{
+	struct tracefs_inode *ti_parent;
+	struct eventfs_inode *ei_parent;
+	struct eventfs_file *ef;
+
+	if (!parent)
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
+	ti_parent = get_tracefs(parent->d_inode);
+	ei_parent = ti_parent->private;
+
+	ef = eventfs_prepare_ef(name,
+		S_IFDIR | S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO,
+		&eventfs_file_operations,
+		&eventfs_root_dir_inode_operations, NULL);
+
+	if (IS_ERR(ef))
+		return ef;
+
+	mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
+	list_add_tail(&ef->list, &ei_parent->e_top_files);
+	ef->d_parent = parent;
+	mutex_unlock(&eventfs_mutex);
+	return ef;
+}
+
+/**
+ * eventfs_add_dir - add eventfs dir to list to create later
+ * @name: the name of the file to create.
+ * @ef_parent: parent eventfs_file for this dir.
+ *
+ * This function adds eventfs dir to list.
+ * And all these dirs are created on the fly when they are looked up,
+ * and the dentry and inodes will be removed when they are done.
+ */
+struct eventfs_file *eventfs_add_dir(const char *name,
+				     struct eventfs_file *ef_parent)
+{
+	struct eventfs_file *ef;
+
+	if (!ef_parent)
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
+	ef = eventfs_prepare_ef(name,
+		S_IFDIR | S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO,
+		&eventfs_file_operations,
+		&eventfs_root_dir_inode_operations, NULL);
+
+	if (IS_ERR(ef))
+		return ef;
+
+	mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
+	list_add_tail(&ef->list, &ef_parent->ei->e_top_files);
+	ef->d_parent = ef_parent->dentry;
+	mutex_unlock(&eventfs_mutex);
+	return ef;
+}
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/inode.c b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
index b0348efc0238..7ef3a02766f5 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ static const struct inode_operations tracefs_dir_inode_operations = {
 	.rmdir		= tracefs_syscall_rmdir,
 };
 
-static struct inode *tracefs_get_inode(struct super_block *sb)
+struct inode *tracefs_get_inode(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = new_inode(sb);
 	if (inode) {
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ static struct file_system_type trace_fs_type = {
 };
 MODULE_ALIAS_FS("tracefs");
 
-static struct dentry *tracefs_start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent)
+struct dentry *tracefs_start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent)
 {
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	int error;
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ static struct dentry *tracefs_start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *pa
 	return dentry;
 }
 
-static struct dentry *tracefs_failed_creating(struct dentry *dentry)
+struct dentry *tracefs_failed_creating(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
 	inode_unlock(d_inode(dentry->d_parent));
 	dput(dentry);
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ static struct dentry *tracefs_failed_creating(struct dentry *dentry)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-static struct dentry *tracefs_end_creating(struct dentry *dentry)
+struct dentry *tracefs_end_creating(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
 	inode_unlock(d_inode(dentry->d_parent));
 	return dentry;
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/internal.h b/fs/tracefs/internal.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c443a0c32a8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/tracefs/internal.h
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _TRACEFS_INTERNAL_H
+#define _TRACEFS_INTERNAL_H
+
+enum {
+	TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE     = BIT(1),
+};
+
+struct tracefs_inode {
+	unsigned long           flags;
+	void                    *private;
+	struct inode            vfs_inode;
+};
+
+static inline struct tracefs_inode *get_tracefs(const struct inode *inode)
+{
+	return container_of(inode, struct tracefs_inode, vfs_inode);
+}
+
+struct dentry *tracefs_start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent);
+struct dentry *tracefs_end_creating(struct dentry *dentry);
+struct dentry *tracefs_failed_creating(struct dentry *dentry);
+struct inode *tracefs_get_inode(struct super_block *sb);
+
+#endif /* _TRACEFS_INTERNAL_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/tracefs.h b/include/linux/tracefs.h
index 99912445974c..432e5e6f7901 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracefs.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracefs.h
@@ -21,6 +21,17 @@ struct file_operations;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
 
+struct eventfs_file;
+
+struct dentry *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name,
+					 struct dentry *parent);
+
+struct eventfs_file *eventfs_add_subsystem_dir(const char *name,
+					       struct dentry *parent);
+
+struct eventfs_file *eventfs_add_dir(const char *name,
+				     struct eventfs_file *ef_parent);
+
 struct dentry *tracefs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode,
 				   struct dentry *parent, void *data,
 				   const struct file_operations *fops);
