diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/trigger/inter-event/trigger-trace-action-hist.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/trigger/inter-event/trigger-trace-action-hist.tc
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+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+# description: event trigger - test inter-event histogram trigger trace action
+
+fail() { #msg
+    echo $1
+    exit_fail
+}
+
+if [ ! -f set_event ]; then
+    echo "event tracing is not supported"
+    exit_unsupported
+fi
+
+if [ ! -f synthetic_events ]; then
+    echo "synthetic event is not supported"
+    exit_unsupported
+fi
+
+grep -q "trace(<synthetic_event>" README || exit_unsupported # version issue
+
+echo "Test create synthetic event"
+
+echo 'wakeup_latency  u64 lat pid_t pid char comm[16]' > synthetic_events
+if [ ! -d events/synthetic/wakeup_latency ]; then
+    fail "Failed to create wakeup_latency synthetic event"
+fi
+
+echo "Test create histogram for synthetic event using trace action"
+echo "Test histogram variables,simple expression support and trace action"
+
+echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs if comm=="ping"' > events/sched/sched_wakeup/trigger
+echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0:onmatch(sched.sched_wakeup).trace(wakeup_latency,$wakeup_lat,next_pid,next_comm) if next_comm=="ping"' > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
+echo 'hist:keys=comm,pid,lat:wakeup_lat=lat:sort=lat' > events/synthetic/wakeup_latency/trigger
+
+ping $LOCALHOST -c 5
+
+if ! grep -q "ping" events/synthetic/wakeup_latency/hist; then
+    fail "Failed to create trace action inter-event histogram"
+fi
+
+exit 0