diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 3eea6de35a38dd34593868e54dc2896a6c18f8cd..76bc2181d214185e885bfe2ae1d827e9a3e4b600 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -308,7 +308,11 @@ can be provided. Each cgroup is applied to the corresponding event, i.e., first
 to first event, second cgroup to second event and so on. It is possible to provide
 an empty cgroup (monitor all the time) using, e.g., -G foo,,bar. Cgroups must have
 corresponding events, i.e., they always refer to events defined earlier on the command
-line.
+line. If the user wants to track multiple events for a specific cgroup, the user can
+use '-e e1 -e e2 -G foo,foo' or just use '-e e1 -e e2 -G foo'.
+
+If wanting to monitor, say, 'cycles' for a cgroup and also for system wide, this
+command line can be used: 'perf stat -e cycles -G cgroup_name -a -e cycles'.
 
 -b::
 --branch-any::
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index 2bbe79a50d3c6462d545316e30d51c381b44a834..2b38e222016af251c7872fb6335a7303dc863d2e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -118,7 +118,11 @@ can be provided. Each cgroup is applied to the corresponding event, i.e., first
 to first event, second cgroup to second event and so on. It is possible to provide
 an empty cgroup (monitor all the time) using, e.g., -G foo,,bar. Cgroups must have
 corresponding events, i.e., they always refer to events defined earlier on the command
-line.
+line. If the user wants to track multiple events for a specific cgroup, the user can
+use '-e e1 -e e2 -G foo,foo' or just use '-e e1 -e e2 -G foo'.
+
+If wanting to monitor, say, 'cycles' for a cgroup and also for system wide, this
+command line can be used: 'perf stat -e cycles -G cgroup_name -a -e cycles'.
 
 -o file::
 --output file::
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cgroup.c b/tools/perf/util/cgroup.c
index 984f69144f87e2dfef2bf5123537d36d4eeeaa28..5dd9b5ea314de756b4a54cbce0543e20a8033a84 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cgroup.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cgroup.c
@@ -157,9 +157,11 @@ int parse_cgroups(const struct option *opt __maybe_unused, const char *str,
 		  int unset __maybe_unused)
 {
 	struct perf_evlist *evlist = *(struct perf_evlist **)opt->value;
+	struct perf_evsel *counter;
+	struct cgroup_sel *cgrp = NULL;
 	const char *p, *e, *eos = str + strlen(str);
 	char *s;
-	int ret;
+	int ret, i;
 
 	if (list_empty(&evlist->entries)) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "must define events before cgroups\n");
@@ -188,5 +190,18 @@ int parse_cgroups(const struct option *opt __maybe_unused, const char *str,
 			break;
 		str = p+1;
 	}
+	/* for the case one cgroup combine to multiple events */
+	i = 0;
+	if (nr_cgroups == 1) {
+		evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, counter) {
+			if (i == 0)
+				cgrp = counter->cgrp;
+			else {
+				counter->cgrp = cgrp;
+				refcount_inc(&cgrp->refcnt);
+			}
+			i++;
+		}
+	}
 	return 0;
 }