diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index a660022f2c929cd97061848311e24ec4cac5e289..1d14f382f6146f8097cec0d0dfc543f782e1f438 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static int record__open(struct record *rec)
 
 	evlist__for_each(evlist, pos) {
 try_again:
-		if (perf_evsel__open(pos, evlist->cpus, evlist->threads) < 0) {
+		if (perf_evsel__open(pos, pos->cpus, pos->threads) < 0) {
 			if (perf_evsel__fallback(pos, errno, msg, sizeof(msg))) {
 				if (verbose)
 					ui__warning("%s\n", msg);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 8d00039d6a20ab333441dae4816f52ad3fb00149..d51a5200c8af77b76e98c85d55f8acee8db304f0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -1181,6 +1181,10 @@ int perf_evlist__apply_filters(struct perf_evlist *evlist, struct perf_evsel **e
 		if (evsel->filter == NULL)
 			continue;
 
+		/*
+		 * filters only work for tracepoint event, which doesn't have cpu limit.
+		 * So evlist and evsel should always be same.
+		 */
 		err = perf_evsel__apply_filter(evsel, ncpus, nthreads, evsel->filter);
 		if (err) {
 			*err_evsel = evsel;