diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
index d00f0d51cab8..c57904a526ce 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
@@ -153,10 +153,18 @@ struct {
 	HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY = 13,
 
 String lists defining the core and CPU threads topology.
+The string lists are followed by a variable length array
+which contains core_id and socket_id of each cpu.
+The number of entries can be determined by the size of the
+section minus the sizes of both string lists.
 
 struct {
        struct perf_header_string_list cores; /* Variable length */
        struct perf_header_string_list threads; /* Variable length */
+       struct {
+	      uint32_t core_id;
+	      uint32_t socket_id;
+       } cpus[nr]; /* Variable length records */
 };
 
 Example: