diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
index b3b072f..888ce99 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
@@ -36,6 +36,18 @@ struct perf_pmu perf_pmu__fake = {
 
 #define UNIT_MAX_LEN	31 /* max length for event unit name */
 
+enum event_source {
+	/* An event loaded from /sys/devices/<pmu>/events. */
+	EVENT_SRC_SYSFS,
+	/* An event loaded from a CPUID matched json file. */
+	EVENT_SRC_CPU_JSON,
+	/*
+	 * An event loaded from a /sys/devices/<pmu>/identifier matched json
+	 * file.
+	 */
+	EVENT_SRC_SYS_JSON,
+};
+
 /**
  * struct perf_pmu_alias - An event either read from sysfs or builtin in
  * pmu-events.c, created by parsing the pmu-events json files.
@@ -521,7 +533,7 @@ static int update_alias(const struct pmu_event *pe,
 
 static int perf_pmu__new_alias(struct perf_pmu *pmu, const char *name,
 				const char *desc, const char *val, FILE *val_fd,
-				const struct pmu_event *pe)
+			        const struct pmu_event *pe, enum event_source src)
 {
 	struct perf_pmu_alias *alias;
 	int ret;
@@ -574,25 +586,30 @@ static int perf_pmu__new_alias(struct perf_pmu *pmu, const char *name,
 		}
 		snprintf(alias->unit, sizeof(alias->unit), "%s", unit);
 	}
-	if (!pe) {
-		/* Update an event from sysfs with json data. */
-		struct update_alias_data data = {
-			.pmu = pmu,
-			.alias = alias,
-		};
-
+	switch (src) {
+	default:
+	case EVENT_SRC_SYSFS:
 		alias->from_sysfs = true;
 		if (pmu->events_table) {
+			/* Update an event from sysfs with json data. */
+			struct update_alias_data data = {
+				.pmu = pmu,
+				.alias = alias,
+			};
 			if (pmu_events_table__find_event(pmu->events_table, pmu, name,
 							 update_alias, &data) == 0)
-				pmu->loaded_json_aliases++;
+				pmu->cpu_json_aliases++;
 		}
-	}
-
-	if (!pe)
 		pmu->sysfs_aliases++;
-	else
-		pmu->loaded_json_aliases++;
+		break;
+	case  EVENT_SRC_CPU_JSON:
+		pmu->cpu_json_aliases++;
+		break;
+	case  EVENT_SRC_SYS_JSON:
+		pmu->sys_json_aliases++;
+		break;
+
+	}
 	list_add_tail(&alias->list, &pmu->aliases);
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -653,7 +670,8 @@ static int __pmu_aliases_parse(struct perf_pmu *pmu, int events_dir_fd)
 		}
 
 		if (perf_pmu__new_alias(pmu, name, /*desc=*/ NULL,
-					/*val=*/ NULL, file, /*pe=*/ NULL) < 0)
+					/*val=*/ NULL, file, /*pe=*/ NULL,
+					EVENT_SRC_SYSFS) < 0)
 			pr_debug("Cannot set up %s\n", name);
 		fclose(file);
 	}
@@ -946,7 +964,8 @@ static int pmu_add_cpu_aliases_map_callback(const struct pmu_event *pe,
 {
 	struct perf_pmu *pmu = vdata;
 
-	perf_pmu__new_alias(pmu, pe->name, pe->desc, pe->event, /*val_fd=*/ NULL, pe);
+	perf_pmu__new_alias(pmu, pe->name, pe->desc, pe->event, /*val_fd=*/ NULL,
+			    pe, EVENT_SRC_CPU_JSON);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -981,13 +1000,14 @@ static int pmu_add_sys_aliases_iter_fn(const struct pmu_event *pe,
 		return 0;
 
 	if (pmu_uncore_alias_match(pe->pmu, pmu->name) &&
-			pmu_uncore_identifier_match(pe->compat, pmu->id)) {
+	    pmu_uncore_identifier_match(pe->compat, pmu->id)) {
 		perf_pmu__new_alias(pmu,
 				pe->name,
 				pe->desc,
 				pe->event,
 				/*val_fd=*/ NULL,
-				pe);
+				pe,
+				EVENT_SRC_SYS_JSON);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1082,6 +1102,12 @@ struct perf_pmu *perf_pmu__lookup(struct list_head *pmus, int dirfd, const char
 	pmu->max_precise = pmu_max_precise(dirfd, pmu);
 	pmu->alias_name = pmu_find_alias_name(pmu, dirfd);
 	pmu->events_table = perf_pmu__find_events_table(pmu);
+	/*
+	 * Load the sys json events/aliases when loading the PMU as each event
+	 * may have a different compat regular expression. We therefore can't
+	 * know the number of sys json events/aliases without computing the
+	 * regular expressions for them all.
+	 */
 	pmu_add_sys_aliases(pmu);
 	list_add_tail(&pmu->list, pmus);
 
@@ -1739,12 +1765,14 @@ size_t perf_pmu__num_events(struct perf_pmu *pmu)
 	size_t nr;
 
 	pmu_aliases_parse(pmu);
-	nr = pmu->sysfs_aliases;
+	nr = pmu->sysfs_aliases + pmu->sys_json_aliases;;
 
 	if (pmu->cpu_aliases_added)
-		 nr += pmu->loaded_json_aliases;
+		 nr += pmu->cpu_json_aliases;
 	else if (pmu->events_table)
-		nr += pmu_events_table__num_events(pmu->events_table, pmu) - pmu->loaded_json_aliases;
+		nr += pmu_events_table__num_events(pmu->events_table, pmu) - pmu->cpu_json_aliases;
+	else
+		assert(pmu->cpu_json_aliases == 0);
 
 	return pmu->selectable ? nr + 1 : nr;
 }
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.h b/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
index 561716a..b2d3fd2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
@@ -123,8 +123,10 @@ struct perf_pmu {
 	const struct pmu_events_table *events_table;
 	/** @sysfs_aliases: Number of sysfs aliases loaded. */
 	uint32_t sysfs_aliases;
-	/** @sysfs_aliases: Number of json event aliases loaded. */
-	uint32_t loaded_json_aliases;
+	/** @cpu_json_aliases: Number of json event aliases loaded specific to the CPUID. */
+	uint32_t cpu_json_aliases;
+	/** @sys_json_aliases: Number of json event aliases loaded matching the PMU's identifier. */
+	uint32_t sys_json_aliases;
 	/** @sysfs_aliases_loaded: Are sysfs aliases loaded from disk? */
 	bool sysfs_aliases_loaded;
 	/**