diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/mem-events.c b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/mem-events.c
index d08311f04e95..07fb5e049488 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/mem-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/mem-events.c
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include "map_symbol.h"
 #include "mem-events.h"
 
 /* PowerPC does not support 'ldlat' parameter. */
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
index 7135b77a18e7..4e4d2e76232e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
 #include "util/data.h"
 #include "arch/common.h"
 #include "util/block-range.h"
+#include "util/map_symbol.h"
+#include "util/branch.h"
 
 #include <dlfcn.h>
 #include <errno.h>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
index 0d76b2cb8c0a..b09b12e0976b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include "builtin.h"
 #include <subcmd/pager.h>
 #include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
+#include "map_symbol.h"
 #include "mem-events.h"
 #include "session.h"
 #include "hist.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-mem.c b/tools/perf/builtin-mem.c
index c5f3b9e9509d..27d2bde943a8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-mem.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-mem.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include "util/tool.h"
 #include "util/session.h"
 #include "util/data.h"
+#include "util/map_symbol.h"
 #include "util/mem-events.h"
 #include "util/debug.h"
 #include "util/dso.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index d7a345667945..b18fab94d38d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 #include <linux/zalloc.h>
 #include "util/map.h"
 #include "util/symbol.h"
+#include "util/map_symbol.h"
+#include "util/mem-events.h"
+#include "util/branch.h"
 #include "util/callchain.h"
 #include "util/values.h"
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-version.c b/tools/perf/builtin-version.c
index bf114ca9ca87..05cf2af9e2c2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-version.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-version.c
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 #include "builtin.h"
 #include "perf.h"
 #include "color.h"
-#include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <tools/config.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/mem.c b/tools/perf/tests/mem.c
index efe3397824d2..673a11a6cd1b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/mem.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/mem.c
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include "util/map_symbol.h"
 #include "util/mem-events.h"
 #include "util/symbol.h"
 #include "linux/perf_event.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c b/tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c
index 0c09dc15a059..5fcc06817076 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 
+#include "map_symbol.h"
 #include "branch.h"
 #include "util.h"
 #include "event.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
index f7e54c16e594..589168ca9f62 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 #include "../../util/hist.h"
 #include "../../util/map.h"
 #include "../../util/symbol.h"
+#include "../../util/map_symbol.h"
+#include "../../util/branch.h"
 #include "../../util/pstack.h"
 #include "../../util/sort.h"
 #include "../../util/top.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/branch.c b/tools/perf/util/branch.c
index 30642e1f2b1b..9d1e090084a2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/branch.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/branch.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include "util/util.h"
 #include "util/debug.h"
+#include "util/map_symbol.h"
 #include "util/branch.h"
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/branch.h b/tools/perf/util/branch.h
index 64f96b79f1d7..06f66dad0b79 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/branch.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/branch.h
@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ struct branch_flags {
 	u64 reserved:40;
 };
 
+struct branch_info {
+	struct addr_map_symbol from;
+	struct addr_map_symbol to;
+	struct branch_flags    flags;
+	char		       *srcline_from;
+	char		       *srcline_to;
+};
+
 struct branch_entry {
 	u64			from;
 	u64			to;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
index 0174ecf757d7..707afdbd9529 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 #include "map.h"
 #include "perf.h"
 #include "session.h"
+#include "map_symbol.h"
+#include "branch.h"
 #include "symbol.h"
 #include "tool.h"
 #include "thread.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.c b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
index 0978dc4a33db..679a1d75090c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/hist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 #include "build-id.h"
 #include "hist.h"
 #include "map.h"
+#include "map_symbol.h"
+#include "branch.h"
+#include "mem-events.h"
 #include "session.h"
 #include "namespaces.h"
 #include "sort.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
index 6a77aefbe319..b4749d3eed08 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
 #include "hist.h"
 #include "machine.h"
 #include "map.h"
+#include "map_symbol.h"
+#include "branch.h"
+#include "mem-events.h"
 #include "srcline.h"
 #include "symbol.h"
 #include "sort.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/map.c b/tools/perf/util/map.c
index 623a63cd1eec..5b83ed1ebbd6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/map.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/map.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <uapi/linux/mman.h> /* To get things like MAP_HUGETLB even on older libc headers */
 #include "dso.h"
 #include "map.h"
+#include "map_symbol.h"
 #include "thread.h"
 #include "vdso.h"
 #include "build-id.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/mem-events.c b/tools/perf/util/mem-events.c
index 3a8d38ce3b54..3d391583f2ae 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/mem-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/mem-events.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <api/fs/fs.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include "map_symbol.h"
 #include "mem-events.h"
 #include "debug.h"
 #include "symbol.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/mem-events.h b/tools/perf/util/mem-events.h
index a889ec2fa9f5..f1389bdae7bf 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/mem-events.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/mem-events.h
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/refcount.h>
+#include <linux/perf_event.h>
 #include "stat.h"
 
 struct perf_mem_event {
@@ -16,6 +18,13 @@ struct perf_mem_event {
 	const char	*sysfs_name;
 };
 
+struct mem_info {
+	struct addr_map_symbol	iaddr;
+	struct addr_map_symbol	daddr;
+	union perf_mem_data_src	data_src;
+	refcount_t		refcnt;
+};
+
 enum {
 	PERF_MEM_EVENTS__LOAD,
 	PERF_MEM_EVENTS__STORE,
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/s390-sample-raw.c b/tools/perf/util/s390-sample-raw.c
index 0ddfa7b3e4f2..4d9593e331ea 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/s390-sample-raw.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/s390-sample-raw.c
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
 #include "util.h"
 #include "session.h"
 #include "evlist.h"
-#include "config.h"
 #include "color.h"
 #include "sample-raw.h"
 #include "s390-cpumcf-kernel.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index e5ac5f3c94d4..e9e4a04f15db 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 #include <perf/cpumap.h>
 
+#include "map_symbol.h"
+#include "branch.h"
 #include "debug.h"
 #include "evlist.h"
 #include "evsel.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
index b974a2c3a3c5..a2308eb77681 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 #include "comm.h"
 #include "map.h"
 #include "symbol.h"
+#include "map_symbol.h"
+#include "branch.h"
 #include "thread.h"
 #include "evsel.h"
 #include "evlist.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index e5ffe61ad66b..765c75df2904 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 #include "machine.h"
 #include "map.h"
 #include "symbol.h"
+#include "map_symbol.h"
+#include "mem-events.h"
 #include "symsrc.h"
 #include "strlist.h"
 #include "intlist.h"
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
index 5a58407c2945..0b0c6b5b1899 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/rbtree.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
-#include "map_symbol.h"
-#include "branch.h"
 #include "path.h"
 #include "symbol_conf.h"
 
@@ -107,21 +105,6 @@ struct ref_reloc_sym {
 	u64		unrelocated_addr;
 };
 
-struct branch_info {
-	struct addr_map_symbol from;
-	struct addr_map_symbol to;
-	struct branch_flags flags;
-	char			*srcline_from;
-	char			*srcline_to;
-};
-
-struct mem_info {
-	struct addr_map_symbol	iaddr;
-	struct addr_map_symbol	daddr;
-	union perf_mem_data_src	data_src;
-	refcount_t		refcnt;
-};
-
 struct block_info {
 	struct symbol		*sym;
 	u64			start;