diff --git a/platforms/posix/src/px4_layer/drv_hrt.cpp b/platforms/posix/src/px4_layer/drv_hrt.cpp
index e17e6b364571659d6edd7f8b1a39f8836a5b8a54..407c9a16735774f8ccdd1387cf69b4fe4787f75a 100644
--- a/platforms/posix/src/px4_layer/drv_hrt.cpp
+++ b/platforms/posix/src/px4_layer/drv_hrt.cpp
@@ -54,11 +54,6 @@
 
 static struct sq_queue_s	callout_queue;
 
-/* latency histogram */
-#define LATENCY_BUCKET_COUNT 8
-__EXPORT const uint16_t latency_bucket_count = LATENCY_BUCKET_COUNT;
-__EXPORT const uint16_t	latency_buckets[LATENCY_BUCKET_COUNT] = { 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 1000 };
-__EXPORT uint32_t	latency_counters[LATENCY_BUCKET_COUNT + 1];
 
 static void		hrt_call_reschedule(void);
 
diff --git a/src/systemcmds/perf/perf.c b/src/systemcmds/perf/perf.c
index 8daa4a6bba50d212c96c845ed4faa11e7fb0b0db..7e0f083f2a0190edcd4372692b10623db921c60a 100644
--- a/src/systemcmds/perf/perf.c
+++ b/src/systemcmds/perf/perf.c
@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@
 __EXPORT int perf_main(int argc, char *argv[]);
 
 
+/* latency histogram */
+#define LATENCY_BUCKET_COUNT 8
+__EXPORT const uint16_t latency_bucket_count = LATENCY_BUCKET_COUNT;
+__EXPORT const uint16_t	latency_buckets[LATENCY_BUCKET_COUNT] = { 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 1000 };
+__EXPORT uint32_t	latency_counters[LATENCY_BUCKET_COUNT + 1];
+
+
 static void print_usage(void)
 {
 	PRINT_MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Tool to print performance counters");