diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
index 18fcc52809fb..980fe2c29275 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -q::
 --quiet::
-	Do not show any message.  (Suppress -v)
+	Do not show any warnings or messages.  (Suppress -v)
 
 -n::
 --show-nr-samples::
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
index be65bd55ab2a..f3067a4af294 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-diff.txt
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -q::
 --quiet::
-	Do not show any message.  (Suppress -v)
+	Do not show any warnings or messages.  (Suppress -v)
 
 -f::
 --force::
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt
index 3b1e16563b79..4958a1ffa1cc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ COMMON OPTIONS
 
 -q::
 --quiet::
-	Do not show any message. (Suppress -v)
+	Do not show any warnings or messages. (Suppress -v)
 
 -D::
 --dump-raw-trace::
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
index 080981d38d7b..7f8e8ba3a787 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -q::
 --quiet::
-	Be quiet (do not show any messages including errors).
+	Do not show any warnings or messages.
 	Can not use with -v.
 
 -a::
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index e41ae950fdc3..9ea6d44aca58 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -q::
 --quiet::
-	Don't print any message, useful for scripting.
+	Don't print any warnings or messages, useful for scripting.
 
 -v::
 --verbose::
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 4533db2ee56b..4fa509b15948 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -q::
 --quiet::
-	Do not show any message.  (Suppress -v)
+	Do not show any warnings or messages.  (Suppress -v)
 
 -n::
 --show-nr-samples::
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index d7ff1867feda..18abdc1dce05 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -354,8 +354,8 @@ forbids the event merging logic from sharing events between groups and
 may be used to increase accuracy in this case.
 
 --quiet::
-Don't print output. This is useful with perf stat record below to only
-write data to the perf.data file.
+Don't print output, warnings or messages. This is useful with perf stat
+record below to only write data to the perf.data file.
 
 STAT RECORD
 -----------
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/numa.c b/tools/perf/bench/numa.c
index e78dedf9e682..9717c6c17433 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/numa.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/numa.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <sched.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <assert.h>
+#include <debug.h>
 #include <malloc.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
@@ -116,7 +117,6 @@ struct params {
 	long			bytes_thread;
 
 	int			nr_tasks;
-	bool			show_quiet;
 
 	bool			show_convergence;
 	bool			measure_convergence;
@@ -197,7 +197,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('c', "show_convergence", &p0.show_convergence, "show convergence details, "
 		    "convergence is reached when each process (all its threads) is running on a single NUMA node."),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('m', "measure_convergence",	&p0.measure_convergence, "measure convergence latency"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet"	, &p0.show_quiet,	"quiet mode"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet"	, &quiet,
+		    "quiet mode (do not show any warnings or messages)"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('S', "serialize-startup", &p0.serialize_startup,"serialize thread startup"),
 
 	/* Special option string parsing callbacks: */
@@ -1474,7 +1475,7 @@ static int init(void)
 	/* char array in count_process_nodes(): */
 	BUG_ON(g->p.nr_nodes < 0);
 
-	if (g->p.show_quiet && !g->p.show_details)
+	if (quiet && !g->p.show_details)
 		g->p.show_details = -1;
 
 	/* Some memory should be specified: */
@@ -1553,7 +1554,7 @@ static void print_res(const char *name, double val,
 	if (!name)
 		name = "main,";
 
-	if (!g->p.show_quiet)
+	if (!quiet)
 		printf(" %-30s %15.3f, %-15s %s\n", name, val, txt_unit, txt_short);
 	else
 		printf(" %14.3f %s\n", val, txt_long);
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
index f839e69492e8..517d928c00e3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv)
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &data.force, "don't complain, do it"),
 	OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
 		    "be more verbose (show symbol address, etc)"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet, "do now show any message"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet, "do now show any warnings or messages"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('D', "dump-raw-trace", &dump_trace,
 		    "dump raw trace in ASCII"),
 #ifdef HAVE_GTK2_SUPPORT
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c b/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c
index d925096dd7f0..ed07cc6cca56 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c
@@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ static const char * const diff_usage[] = {
 static const struct option options[] = {
 	OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
 		    "be more verbose (show symbol address, etc)"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet, "Do not show any message"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet, "Do not show any warnings or messages"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('b', "baseline-only", &show_baseline_only,
 		    "Show only items with match in baseline"),
 	OPT_CALLBACK('c', "compute", &compute,
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c b/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c
index 9722d4ab2e55..66520712a167 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c
@@ -1869,7 +1869,7 @@ int cmd_lock(int argc, const char **argv)
 		   "file", "vmlinux pathname"),
 	OPT_STRING(0, "kallsyms", &symbol_conf.kallsyms_name,
 		   "file", "kallsyms pathname"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet, "Do not show any message"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet, "Do not show any warnings or messages"),
 	OPT_END()
 	};
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
index f62298f5db3b..2ae50fc9e597 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ static struct {
 	int command;	/* Command short_name */
 	bool list_events;
 	bool uprobes;
-	bool quiet;
 	bool target_used;
 	int nevents;
 	struct perf_probe_event events[MAX_PROBES];
@@ -514,8 +513,8 @@ __cmd_probe(int argc, const char **argv)
 	struct option options[] = {
 	OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
 		    "be more verbose (show parsed arguments, etc)"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &params.quiet,
-		    "be quiet (do not show any messages)"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet,
+		    "be quiet (do not show any warnings or messages)"),
 	OPT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT('l', "list", NULL, "[GROUP:]EVENT",
 			     "list up probe events",
 			     opt_set_filter_with_command, DEFAULT_LIST_FILTER),
@@ -634,7 +633,7 @@ __cmd_probe(int argc, const char **argv)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	if (params.quiet) {
+	if (quiet) {
 		if (verbose != 0) {
 			pr_err("  Error: -v and -q are exclusive.\n");
 			return -EINVAL;
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 52d254b1530c..81dd0917920f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -3379,7 +3379,7 @@ static struct option __record_options[] = {
 		     &record_parse_callchain_opt),
 	OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
 		    "be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc)"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet, "don't print any message"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet, "don't print any warnings or messages"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('s', "stat", &record.opts.inherit_stat,
 		    "per thread counts"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('d', "data", &record.opts.sample_address, "Record the sample addresses"),
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index 8361890176c2..b6d77d3da64f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv)
 		    "input file name"),
 	OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
 		    "be more verbose (show symbol address, etc)"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet, "Do not show any message"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet, "Do not show any warnings or messages"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('D', "dump-raw-trace", &dump_trace,
 		    "dump raw trace in ASCII"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "stats", &report.stats_mode, "Display event stats"),
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 265b05157972..e3531a1fe08e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ static void print_counters(struct timespec *ts, int argc, const char **argv)
 	/* Do not print anything if we record to the pipe. */
 	if (STAT_RECORD && perf_stat.data.is_pipe)
 		return;
-	if (stat_config.quiet)
+	if (quiet)
 		return;
 
 	evlist__print_counters(evsel_list, &stat_config, &target, ts, argc, argv);
@@ -1273,8 +1273,8 @@ static struct option stat_options[] = {
 		       "print summary for interval mode"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "no-csv-summary", &stat_config.no_csv_summary,
 		       "don't print 'summary' for CSV summary output"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "quiet", &stat_config.quiet,
-			"don't print output (useful with record)"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "quiet", &quiet,
+			"don't print any output, messages or warnings (useful with record)"),
 	OPT_CALLBACK(0, "cputype", &evsel_list, "hybrid cpu type",
 		     "Only enable events on applying cpu with this type "
 		     "for hybrid platform (e.g. core or atom)",
@@ -2277,7 +2277,7 @@ int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (!output && !stat_config.quiet) {
+	if (!output && !quiet) {
 		struct timespec tm;
 		mode = append_file ? "a" : "w";
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat.h b/tools/perf/util/stat.h
index b0899c6e002f..35c940d7f29c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat.h
@@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ struct perf_stat_config {
 	bool			 metric_no_group;
 	bool			 metric_no_merge;
 	bool			 stop_read_counter;
-	bool			 quiet;
 	bool			 iostat_run;
 	char			 *user_requested_cpu_list;
 	bool			 system_wide;
