diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build
index 47f9c56e744f8c3751e6cf22ec9f738182ea8370..347c39b960eba845be4d84893145bbe50f7522b5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ perf-y += tsc.o
 perf-y += pmu.o
 perf-y += kvm-stat.o
 perf-y += perf_regs.o
-perf-y += group.o
+perf-y += topdown.o
 perf-y += machine.o
 perf-y += event.o
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/group.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c
similarity index 95%
rename from tools/perf/arch/x86/util/group.c
rename to tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c
index e2f8034b89733200f81e3cc76f9b522b114ef080..597e963fb3e7daec3e8de5b8d20a1f258c4ba5c2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/group.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include "api/fs/fs.h"
-#include "util/group.h"
+#include "util/topdown.h"
 
 /*
  * Check whether we can use a group for top down.
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 7f8d756d9408ffdfece3c10a79ccc011ad9b29dd..a39bb28b44f93484f8d83cda3b946e5a0fccc031 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 #include "util/cpumap.h"
 #include "util/thread_map.h"
 #include "util/counts.h"
-#include "util/group.h"
+#include "util/topdown.h"
 #include "util/session.h"
 #include "util/tool.h"
 #include "util/string2.h"
@@ -1481,55 +1481,6 @@ static int perf_stat_init_aggr_mode_file(struct perf_stat *st)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int topdown_filter_events(const char **attr, char **str, bool use_group)
-{
-	int off = 0;
-	int i;
-	int len = 0;
-	char *s;
-
-	for (i = 0; attr[i]; i++) {
-		if (pmu_have_event("cpu", attr[i])) {
-			len += strlen(attr[i]) + 1;
-			attr[i - off] = attr[i];
-		} else
-			off++;
-	}
-	attr[i - off] = NULL;
-
-	*str = malloc(len + 1 + 2);
-	if (!*str)
-		return -1;
-	s = *str;
-	if (i - off == 0) {
-		*s = 0;
-		return 0;
-	}
-	if (use_group)
-		*s++ = '{';
-	for (i = 0; attr[i]; i++) {
-		strcpy(s, attr[i]);
-		s += strlen(s);
-		*s++ = ',';
-	}
-	if (use_group) {
-		s[-1] = '}';
-		*s = 0;
-	} else
-		s[-1] = 0;
-	return 0;
-}
-
-__weak bool arch_topdown_check_group(bool *warn)
-{
-	*warn = false;
-	return false;
-}
-
-__weak void arch_topdown_group_warn(void)
-{
-}
-
 /*
  * Add default attributes, if there were no attributes specified or
  * if -d/--detailed, -d -d or -d -d -d is used:
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/Build b/tools/perf/util/Build
index cd5e41960e64accc89eebc02b0f3349096db9ba7..eebbd5223caee11ea4ca8cba7ae64d53cecc1d37 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/util/Build
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ perf-y += call-path.o
 perf-y += rwsem.o
 perf-y += thread-stack.o
 perf-y += spark.o
+perf-y += topdown.o
 perf-$(CONFIG_AUXTRACE) += auxtrace.o
 perf-$(CONFIG_AUXTRACE) += intel-pt-decoder/
 perf-$(CONFIG_AUXTRACE) += intel-pt.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/topdown.c b/tools/perf/util/topdown.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a085b3c77c27366058db7195e3f97b3389f6a5db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/util/topdown.c
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include "pmu.h"
+#include "topdown.h"
+
+int topdown_filter_events(const char **attr, char **str, bool use_group)
+{
+	int off = 0;
+	int i;
+	int len = 0;
+	char *s;
+
+	for (i = 0; attr[i]; i++) {
+		if (pmu_have_event("cpu", attr[i])) {
+			len += strlen(attr[i]) + 1;
+			attr[i - off] = attr[i];
+		} else
+			off++;
+	}
+	attr[i - off] = NULL;
+
+	*str = malloc(len + 1 + 2);
+	if (!*str)
+		return -1;
+	s = *str;
+	if (i - off == 0) {
+		*s = 0;
+		return 0;
+	}
+	if (use_group)
+		*s++ = '{';
+	for (i = 0; attr[i]; i++) {
+		strcpy(s, attr[i]);
+		s += strlen(s);
+		*s++ = ',';
+	}
+	if (use_group) {
+		s[-1] = '}';
+		*s = 0;
+	} else
+		s[-1] = 0;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+__weak bool arch_topdown_check_group(bool *warn)
+{
+	*warn = false;
+	return false;
+}
+
+__weak void arch_topdown_group_warn(void)
+{
+}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/group.h b/tools/perf/util/topdown.h
similarity index 52%
rename from tools/perf/util/group.h
rename to tools/perf/util/topdown.h
index f36c7e31780a9b58a92ce47850f4c64635d92511..e3d70e95f4f161d28e06bf92ffb1e3fc77a182a7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/group.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/topdown.h
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-#ifndef GROUP_H
-#define GROUP_H 1
+#ifndef TOPDOWN_H
+#define TOPDOWN_H 1
 
 bool arch_topdown_check_group(bool *warn);
 void arch_topdown_group_warn(void);
 
+int topdown_filter_events(const char **attr, char **str, bool use_group);
+
 #endif