diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index 930c51c01201..a9af4e440e80 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -323,6 +323,12 @@ The output is SMI cycles%, equals to (aperf - unhalted core cycles) / aperf
 
 Users who wants to get the actual value can apply --no-metric-only.
 
+--all-kernel::
+Configure all used events to run in kernel space.
+
+--all-user::
+Configure all used events to run in user space.
+
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 468fc49420ce..c88d4e118409 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -803,6 +803,12 @@ static struct option stat_options[] = {
 	OPT_CALLBACK('M', "metrics", &evsel_list, "metric/metric group list",
 		     "monitor specified metrics or metric groups (separated by ,)",
 		     parse_metric_groups),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN_FLAG(0, "all-kernel", &stat_config.all_kernel,
+			 "Configure all used events to run in kernel space.",
+			 PARSE_OPT_EXCLUSIVE),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN_FLAG(0, "all-user", &stat_config.all_user,
+			 "Configure all used events to run in user space.",
+			 PARSE_OPT_EXCLUSIVE),
 	OPT_END()
 };
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat.c b/tools/perf/util/stat.c
index ebdd130557fb..6822e4ffe224 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat.c
@@ -490,6 +490,16 @@ int create_perf_stat_counter(struct evsel *evsel,
 	if (config->identifier)
 		attr->sample_type = PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER;
 
+	if (config->all_user) {
+		attr->exclude_kernel = 1;
+		attr->exclude_user   = 0;
+	}
+
+	if (config->all_kernel) {
+		attr->exclude_kernel = 0;
+		attr->exclude_user   = 1;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Disabling all counters initially, they will be enabled
 	 * either manually by us or by kernel via enable_on_exec
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat.h b/tools/perf/util/stat.h
index edbeb2f63e8d..081c4a5113c6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat.h
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ struct perf_stat_config {
 	bool			 big_num;
 	bool			 no_merge;
 	bool			 walltime_run_table;
+	bool			 all_kernel;
+	bool			 all_user;
 	FILE			*output;
 	unsigned int		 interval;
 	unsigned int		 timeout;