diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c
index f849b1e88d43..477e513972a4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 
+#include <internal/cpumap.h>
 #include "../../../util/cpumap.h"
 #include "../../../util/pmu.h"
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/cpumap.c b/tools/perf/tests/cpumap.c
index 7c873c6ae3eb..3150fc1fed6f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/cpumap.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/cpumap.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #include "util/synthetic-events.h"
 #include <string.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
-#include <perf/cpumap.h>
+#include <internal/cpumap.h>
 #include "debug.h"
 
 struct machine;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
index 6a0f9b98f059..2cf63d377831 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/perf_event.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
-#include <internal/cpumap.h>
+#include <perf/cpumap.h>
 #include <asm/bitsperlong.h>
 #include <asm/barrier.h>
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cpumap.c b/tools/perf/util/cpumap.c
index 6e3fcf523de9..5e564974fba4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cpumap.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cpumap.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/zalloc.h>
+#include <internal/cpumap.h>
 
 static struct perf_cpu max_cpu_num;
 static struct perf_cpu max_present_cpu_num;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cpumap.h b/tools/perf/util/cpumap.h
index da28b3146ef9..c2f5824a3a22 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cpumap.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cpumap.h
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 #include <stdbool.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
-#include <internal/cpumap.h>
 #include <perf/cpumap.h>
+#include <linux/refcount.h>
 
 /** Identify where counts are aggregated, -1 implies not to aggregate. */
 struct aggr_cpu_id {
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index 467bb0b32fef..f3485799ddf9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@
 #include <internal/evsel.h>
 #include <perf/evsel.h>
 #include "symbol_conf.h"
-#include <internal/cpumap.h>
-#include <perf/cpumap.h>
 
 struct bpf_object;
 struct cgroup;