diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index f61c2dc8c7e8..942ebfd8ef2e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -171,8 +171,6 @@ static bool			interval_count;
 static const char		*output_name;
 static int			output_fd;
 static u64			*walltime_run;
-static bool			ru_display			= false;
-static struct rusage		ru_data;
 
 struct perf_stat {
 	bool			 record;
@@ -583,7 +581,7 @@ try_again:
 					break;
 			}
 		}
-		wait4(child_pid, &status, 0, &ru_data);
+		wait4(child_pid, &status, 0, &stat_config.ru_data);
 
 		if (workload_exec_errno) {
 			const char *emsg = str_error_r(workload_exec_errno, msg, sizeof(msg));
@@ -1679,9 +1677,9 @@ static void print_footer(struct perf_stat_config *config)
 	if (config->run_count == 1) {
 		fprintf(output, " %17.9f seconds time elapsed", avg);
 
-		if (ru_display) {
-			double ru_utime = timeval2double(&ru_data.ru_utime);
-			double ru_stime = timeval2double(&ru_data.ru_stime);
+		if (config->ru_display) {
+			double ru_utime = timeval2double(&config->ru_data.ru_utime);
+			double ru_stime = timeval2double(&config->ru_data.ru_stime);
 
 			fprintf(output, "\n\n");
 			fprintf(output, " %17.9f seconds user\n", ru_utime);
@@ -2855,7 +2853,7 @@ int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
 	 * run and when there's specified tracee.
 	 */
 	if ((stat_config.run_count == 1) && target__none(&target))
-		ru_display = true;
+		stat_config.ru_display = true;
 
 	if (stat_config.run_count < 0) {
 		pr_err("Run count must be a positive number\n");
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat.h b/tools/perf/util/stat.h
index 6fb4dac26ccc..1fd0b7e196c6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat.h
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
 #include "xyarray.h"
 #include "rblist.h"
 #include "perf.h"
@@ -95,6 +99,7 @@ struct perf_stat_config {
 	bool			 interval_clear;
 	bool			 metric_only;
 	bool			 null_run;
+	bool			 ru_display;
 	FILE			*output;
 	unsigned int		 interval;
 	unsigned int		 timeout;
@@ -109,6 +114,7 @@ struct perf_stat_config {
 	int			 stats_num;
 	const char		*csv_sep;
 	struct stats		*walltime_nsecs_stats;
+	struct rusage		 ru_data;
 };
 
 void update_stats(struct stats *stats, u64 val);