diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-help.c b/tools/perf/builtin-help.c
index 25d20628212e..36486eade1ef 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-help.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-help.c
@@ -437,7 +437,18 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 			HELP_FORMAT_INFO),
 	OPT_END(),
 	};
-	const char * const builtin_help_usage[] = {
+	const char * const builtin_help_subcommands[] = {
+		"buildid-cache", "buildid-list", "diff", "evlist", "help", "list",
+		"record", "report", "bench", "stat", "timechart", "top", "annotate",
+		"script", "sched", "kmem", "lock", "kvm", "test", "inject", "mem", "data",
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
+		"probe",
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBAUDIT_SUPPORT
+		"trace",
+#endif
+	NULL };
+	const char *builtin_help_usage[] = {
 		"perf help [--all] [--man|--web|--info] [command]",
 		NULL
 	};
@@ -448,8 +459,8 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 
 	perf_config(perf_help_config, &help_format);
 
-	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, builtin_help_options,
-			builtin_help_usage, 0);
+	argc = parse_options_subcommand(argc, argv, builtin_help_options,
+			builtin_help_subcommands, builtin_help_usage, 0);
 
 	if (show_all) {
 		printf("\n usage: %s\n\n", perf_usage_string);
diff --git a/tools/perf/perf-completion.sh b/tools/perf/perf-completion.sh
index 535ff72babc7..dbca6a66f401 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf-completion.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/perf-completion.sh
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ __perf_main ()
 		__perfcomp_colon "$evts" "$cur"
 	else
 		# List subcommands for perf commands
-		if [[ $prev_skip_opts == @(kvm|kmem|mem|lock|sched|data) ]]; then
+		if [[ $prev_skip_opts == @(kvm|kmem|mem|lock|sched|data|help) ]]; then
 			subcmds=$($cmd $prev_skip_opts --list-cmds)
 			__perfcomp_colon "$subcmds" "$cur"
 		fi