diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index 39c05f89104e..1e312c2672e4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ report::
 	  param1 and param2 are defined as formats for the PMU in
 	  /sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/format/*
 
+	  'percore' is a event qualifier that sums up the event counts for both
+	  hardware threads in a core. For example:
+	  perf stat -A -a -e cpu/event,percore=1/,otherevent ...
+
 	- a symbolically formed event like 'pmu/config=M,config1=N,config2=K/'
 	  where M, N, K are numbers (in decimal, hex, octal format).
 	  Acceptable values for each of 'config', 'config1' and 'config2'
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index a3c060878faa..24b8e690fb69 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -847,6 +847,18 @@ static int perf_stat__get_core_cached(struct perf_stat_config *config,
 	return perf_stat__get_aggr(config, perf_stat__get_core, map, idx);
 }
 
+static bool term_percore_set(void)
+{
+	struct perf_evsel *counter;
+
+	evlist__for_each_entry(evsel_list, counter) {
+		if (counter->percore)
+			return true;
+	}
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 static int perf_stat_init_aggr_mode(void)
 {
 	int nr;
@@ -867,6 +879,15 @@ static int perf_stat_init_aggr_mode(void)
 		stat_config.aggr_get_id = perf_stat__get_core_cached;
 		break;
 	case AGGR_NONE:
+		if (term_percore_set()) {
+			if (cpu_map__build_core_map(evsel_list->cpus,
+						    &stat_config.aggr_map)) {
+				perror("cannot build core map");
+				return -1;
+			}
+			stat_config.aggr_get_id = perf_stat__get_core_cached;
+		}
+		break;
 	case AGGR_GLOBAL:
 	case AGGR_THREAD:
 	case AGGR_UNSET:
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
index f5b4ee79568c..4c53bae5644b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
@@ -88,9 +88,17 @@ static void aggr_printout(struct perf_stat_config *config,
 			config->csv_sep);
 			break;
 	case AGGR_NONE:
-		fprintf(config->output, "CPU%*d%s",
-			config->csv_output ? 0 : -4,
-			perf_evsel__cpus(evsel)->map[id], config->csv_sep);
+		if (evsel->percore) {
+			fprintf(config->output, "S%d-C%*d%s",
+				cpu_map__id_to_socket(id),
+				config->csv_output ? 0 : -5,
+				cpu_map__id_to_cpu(id), config->csv_sep);
+		} else {
+			fprintf(config->output, "CPU%*d%s ",
+				config->csv_output ? 0 : -5,
+				perf_evsel__cpus(evsel)->map[id],
+				config->csv_sep);
+		}
 		break;
 	case AGGR_THREAD:
 		fprintf(config->output, "%*s-%*d%s",
@@ -1103,6 +1111,30 @@ static void print_footer(struct perf_stat_config *config)
 			"the same PMU. Try reorganizing the group.\n");
 }
 
+static void print_percore(struct perf_stat_config *config,
+			  struct perf_evsel *counter, char *prefix)
+{
+	bool metric_only = config->metric_only;
+	FILE *output = config->output;
+	int s;
+	bool first = true;
+
+	if (!(config->aggr_map || config->aggr_get_id))
+		return;
+
+	for (s = 0; s < config->aggr_map->nr; s++) {
+		if (prefix && metric_only)
+			fprintf(output, "%s", prefix);
+
+		print_counter_aggrdata(config, counter, s,
+				       prefix, metric_only,
+				       &first);
+	}
+
+	if (metric_only)
+		fputc('\n', output);
+}
+
 void
 perf_evlist__print_counters(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
 			    struct perf_stat_config *config,
@@ -1153,7 +1185,10 @@ perf_evlist__print_counters(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
 			print_no_aggr_metric(config, evlist, prefix);
 		else {
 			evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, counter) {
-				print_counter(config, counter, prefix);
+				if (counter->percore)
+					print_percore(config, counter, prefix);
+				else
+					print_counter(config, counter, prefix);
 			}
 		}
 		break;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat.c b/tools/perf/util/stat.c
index 2856cc9d5a31..c3115d939b0b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat.c
@@ -277,9 +277,11 @@ process_counter_values(struct perf_stat_config *config, struct perf_evsel *evsel
 		if (!evsel->snapshot)
 			perf_evsel__compute_deltas(evsel, cpu, thread, count);
 		perf_counts_values__scale(count, config->scale, NULL);
-		if (config->aggr_mode == AGGR_NONE)
-			perf_stat__update_shadow_stats(evsel, count->val, cpu,
-						       &rt_stat);
+		if ((config->aggr_mode == AGGR_NONE) && (!evsel->percore)) {
+			perf_stat__update_shadow_stats(evsel, count->val,
+						       cpu, &rt_stat);
+		}
+
 		if (config->aggr_mode == AGGR_THREAD) {
 			if (config->stats)
 				perf_stat__update_shadow_stats(evsel,