diff -Nru coz-profiler-0.2.2/debian/changelog coz-profiler-0.2.2/debian/changelog
--- coz-profiler-0.2.2/debian/changelog	2020-09-02 16:53:33.000000000 +0000
+++ coz-profiler-0.2.2/debian/changelog	2020-09-05 09:17:25.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+coz-profiler (0.2.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Lluis Vilanova ]
+  * Adjusted autopkgtest checks to not fail when the kernel perf access
+    block them from running.
+
+ -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org>  Sat, 05 Sep 2020 11:17:25 +0200
+
 coz-profiler (0.2.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   [ Lluis Vilanova ]
diff -Nru coz-profiler-0.2.2/debian/tests/test-coz-run-ls coz-profiler-0.2.2/debian/tests/test-coz-run-ls
--- coz-profiler-0.2.2/debian/tests/test-coz-run-ls	2020-09-02 16:24:05.000000000 +0000
+++ coz-profiler-0.2.2/debian/tests/test-coz-run-ls	2020-09-04 16:21:31.000000000 +0000
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 
 set -e
 
+if [ "$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid)" -gt 2 ] ; then \
+    echo
+    echo "***********************************************************"
+    echo "error: not running test suite, /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid value too high"
+    echo "***********************************************************"
+    echo
+    exit 0
+fi
+
 coz run --- /bin/ls
 
 if grep -q 'startup	time=' profile.coz ; then
diff -Nru coz-profiler-0.2.2/debian/tests/test-coz-run-simple coz-profiler-0.2.2/debian/tests/test-coz-run-simple
--- coz-profiler-0.2.2/debian/tests/test-coz-run-simple	2020-09-02 16:24:05.000000000 +0000
+++ coz-profiler-0.2.2/debian/tests/test-coz-run-simple	2020-09-04 16:21:31.000000000 +0000
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 
 set -e
 
+if [ "$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid)" -gt 2 ] ; then \
+    echo
+    echo "***********************************************************"
+    echo "error: not running test suite, /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid value too high"
+    echo "***********************************************************"
+    echo
+    exit 0
+fi
+
 cd $AUTOPKGTEST_TMP
 
 cat > x.c <<'EOF'