diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind-3.6.0/fix_unsupporting_kernel_3.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind-3.6.0/fix_unsupporting_kernel_3.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..346ffebb3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind-3.6.0/fix_unsupporting_kernel_3.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+valgrind: Add 3.x statements to "case" for supporting the kernel 3.x
+
+Signed-off-by: Lin Tong <tong.lin@intel.com>
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
+index 3878619..1cb7dc7 100644
+--- a/configure.in
++++ b/configure.in
+@@ -229,10 +229,14 @@ case "${host_os}" in
+         	    AC_MSG_RESULT([2.4 family (${kernel})])
+         	    AC_DEFINE([KERNEL_2_4], 1, [Define to 1 if you're using Linux 2.4.x])
+         	    ;;
++             3.*)
++                    AC_MSG_RESULT([3 family (${kernel})])
++                    AC_DEFINE([KERNEL_3], 1, [Define to 1 if you're using Linux 3.x])
++                    ;;
+ 
+              *) 
+         	    AC_MSG_RESULT([unsupported (${kernel})])
+-        	    AC_MSG_ERROR([Valgrind works on kernels 2.4, 2.6])
++        	    AC_MSG_ERROR([Valgrind works on kernels 2.4, 2.6, 3.x])
+         	    ;;
+         esac
+ 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind_3.6.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind_3.6.0.bb
index a33a540198..066c16d0bc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind_3.6.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind_3.6.0.bb
@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c46082167a314d785d012a244748d803 \
                     file://include/valgrind.h;beginline=1;endline=56;md5=13a71cedba99112334d8596162aec37e \
                     file://COPYING.DOCS;md5=8fdeb5abdb235a08e76835f8f3260215"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/libx11"
-PR = "r0"
+PR = "r1"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
 	   file://fix_issue_caused_by_ccache.patch \
-           file://fixed-perl-path.patch"
+           file://fixed-perl-path.patch \
+	   file://fix_unsupporting_kernel_3.patch"
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "b289c5f4ab8e39741602445f1dd09b34"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "bc0f0153b5a47b986f1d8efa2c488e0aea85a1cf2c4b11c52be127903080285f"