diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/sched-pipe.c b/tools/perf/bench/sched-pipe.c
index 07a8d7646a1549c61699f7311285238ef5ef93cf..005cc283790cfb7cf4db014362cb5d56f2a89ca2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/sched-pipe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/sched-pipe.c
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
-#include <linux/unistd.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <assert.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
 
 #include <pthread.h>
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 961cea183a832fb831fc40ae4d88a96e661c197e..616f0fcb47010abf68ac7e4a9e256fa559af4499 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@
 #include <sys/utsname.h>
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 
-#include <linux/unistd.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 
 static volatile int done;
diff --git a/tools/perf/perf-sys.h b/tools/perf/perf-sys.h
index a3b13d7dc1d43f3caf301b4d9f941c60d88ed37c..6ef68165c9db628d23bbe85b48945ac2581ec979 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf-sys.h
+++ b/tools/perf/perf-sys.h
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 #include <sys/syscall.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/perf_event.h>
-#include <asm/unistd.h>
 
 #if defined(__i386__)
 #define mb()		asm volatile("lock; addl $0,0(%%esp)" ::: "memory")