return 0;
 }
 
-static int perf_stat__write(struct perf_stat *stat, void *bf, size_t size)
+static int process_synthesized_event(struct perf_tool *tool __maybe_unused,
+                                    union perf_event *event,
+                                    struct perf_sample *sample __maybe_unused,
+                                    struct machine *machine __maybe_unused)
 {
-       if (perf_data_file__write(stat->session->file, bf, size) < 0) {
+       if (perf_data_file__write(&perf_stat.file, event, event->header.size) < 0) {
                pr_err("failed to write perf data, error: %m\n");
                return -1;
        }
 
-       stat->bytes_written += size;
+       perf_stat.bytes_written += event->header.size;
        return 0;
 }
 
-static int process_synthesized_event(struct perf_tool *tool,
-                                    union perf_event *event,
-                                    struct perf_sample *sample __maybe_unused,
-                                    struct machine *machine __maybe_unused)
-{
-       struct perf_stat *stat = (void *)tool;
-       return perf_stat__write(stat, event, event->header.size);
-}
-
 /*
  * Read out the results of a single counter:
  * do not aggregate counts across CPUs in system-wide mode
        workload_exec_errno = info->si_value.sival_int;
 }
 
+static int perf_stat_synthesize_config(void)
+{
+       int err;
+
+       err = perf_event__synthesize_thread_map2(NULL, evsel_list->threads,
+                                               process_synthesized_event,
+                                               NULL);
+       if (err < 0) {
+               pr_err("Couldn't synthesize thread map.\n");
+               return err;
+       }
+
+       err = perf_event__synthesize_cpu_map(NULL, evsel_list->cpus,
+                                            process_synthesized_event, NULL);
+       if (err < 0) {
+               pr_err("Couldn't synthesize thread map.\n");
+               return err;
+       }
+
+       err = perf_event__synthesize_stat_config(NULL, &stat_config,
+                                                process_synthesized_event, NULL);
+       if (err < 0) {
+               pr_err("Couldn't synthesize config.\n");
+               return err;
+       }
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
 static int __run_perf_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
        int interval = stat_config.interval;
                                                 fd, false);
                if (err < 0)
                        return err;
+
+               err = perf_stat_synthesize_config();
+               if (err < 0)
+                       return err;
        }
 
        /*
                 * a saner message about no samples being in the perf.data file.
                 *
                 * This also serves to suppress a warning about f_header.data.size == 0
-                * in header.c.  -acme
+                * in header.c at the moment 'perf stat record' gets introduced, which
+                * is not really needed once we start adding the stat specific PERF_RECORD_
+                * records, but the need to suppress the kptr_restrict messages in older
+                * tools remain  -acme
                 */
                int fd = perf_data_file__fd(&perf_stat.file);
                int err = perf_event__synthesize_kernel_mmap((void *)&perf_stat,