diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
index 3f8fd127d31e..cb891e5c2969 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
@@ -724,6 +724,7 @@ static void generic_metric(struct perf_stat_config *config,
 	double ratio;
 	int i;
 	void *ctxp = out->ctx;
+	char *n, *pn;
 
 	expr__ctx_init(&pctx);
 	expr__add_id(&pctx, name, avg);
@@ -743,7 +744,19 @@ static void generic_metric(struct perf_stat_config *config,
 			stats = &v->stats;
 			scale = 1.0;
 		}
-		expr__add_id(&pctx, metric_events[i]->name, avg_stats(stats)*scale);
+
+		n = strdup(metric_events[i]->name);
+		if (!n)
+			return;
+		/*
+		 * This display code with --no-merge adds [cpu] postfixes.
+		 * These are not supported by the parser. Remove everything
+		 * after the space.
+		 */
+		pn = strchr(n, ' ');
+		if (pn)
+			*pn = 0;
+		expr__add_id(&pctx, n, avg_stats(stats)*scale);
 	}
 	if (!metric_events[i]) {
 		const char *p = metric_expr;
@@ -760,6 +773,9 @@ static void generic_metric(struct perf_stat_config *config,
 				     (metric_name ? metric_name : name) : "", 0);
 	} else
 		print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, NULL, "", 0);
+
+	for (i = 1; i < pctx.num_ids; i++)
+		free((void *)pctx.ids[i].name);
 }
 
 void perf_stat__print_shadow_stats(struct perf_stat_config *config,