diff --git a/tools/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h b/tools/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
index c317d3e6867a3770e0e3f8e4ed679172adef1d71..ea6a255ae61f7268ada806820ecafb258ca6b0eb 100644
--- a/tools/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
+++ b/tools/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@
 #define MAP_NONBLOCK	0x40000
 #define MAP_NORESERVE	0x10000
 #define MAP_POPULATE	0x20000
-#define MAP_PRIVATE	0x02
-#define MAP_SHARED	0x01
 #define MAP_STACK	0x80000
 #define PROT_EXEC	0x4
 #define PROT_GROWSDOWN	0x01000000
diff --git a/tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/mman.h b/tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
index de2206883abc0f83f21e59f9f7edf17e4ce2b85a..c8acaa138d466934a9d9adfd7934ca41da5e3279 100644
--- a/tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
+++ b/tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@
 #define MAP_NONBLOCK	0x20000
 #define MAP_NORESERVE	0x0400
 #define MAP_POPULATE	0x10000
-#define MAP_PRIVATE	0x002
-#define MAP_SHARED	0x001
 #define MAP_STACK	0x40000
 #define PROT_EXEC	0x04
 #define PROT_GROWSDOWN	0x01000000
diff --git a/tools/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h b/tools/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
index 1bd78758bde9815b067d705fdec7157ca3860b34..f9fd1325f5bda746d3393857f4603ae46d7e845e 100644
--- a/tools/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
+++ b/tools/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@
 #define MAP_NONBLOCK	0x20000
 #define MAP_NORESERVE	0x4000
 #define MAP_POPULATE	0x10000
-#define MAP_PRIVATE	0x02
-#define MAP_SHARED	0x01
 #define MAP_STACK	0x40000
 #define PROT_EXEC	0x4
 #define PROT_GROWSDOWN	0x01000000
diff --git a/tools/arch/xtensa/include/uapi/asm/mman.h b/tools/arch/xtensa/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
index 34dde6f44dae517a119e9cff65261753a75b8fdc..f2b08c990afc846ed3901d94cb4cf9b5c1a8d9ed 100644
--- a/tools/arch/xtensa/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
+++ b/tools/arch/xtensa/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@
 #define MAP_NONBLOCK	0x20000
 #define MAP_NORESERVE	0x0400
 #define MAP_POPULATE	0x10000
-#define MAP_PRIVATE	0x002
-#define MAP_SHARED	0x001
 #define MAP_STACK	0x40000
 #define PROT_EXEC	0x4
 #define PROT_GROWSDOWN	0x01000000
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common-tools.h b/tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common-tools.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..af7d0d3a31829c48b775405ce88614dfd5b9ddf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common-tools.h
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
+#ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_MMAN_COMMON_TOOLS_ONLY_H
+#define __ASM_GENERIC_MMAN_COMMON_TOOLS_ONLY_H
+
+#include <asm-generic/mman-common.h>
+
+/* We need this because we need to have tools/include/uapi/ included in the tools
+ * header search path to get access to stuff that is not yet in the system's
+ * copy of the files in that directory, but since this cset:
+ *
+ *     746c9398f5ac ("arch: move common mmap flags to linux/mman.h")
+ *
+ * We end up making sys/mman.h, that is in the system headers, to not find the
+ * MAP_SHARED and MAP_PRIVATE defines because they are not anymore in our copy
+ * of asm-generic/mman-common.h. So we define them here and include this header
+ * from each of the per arch mman.h headers.
+ */
+#ifndef MAP_SHARED
+#define MAP_SHARED	0x01		/* Share changes */
+#define MAP_PRIVATE	0x02		/* Changes are private */
+#define MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE 0x03	/* share + validate extension flags */
+#endif
+#endif // __ASM_GENERIC_MMAN_COMMON_TOOLS_ONLY_H
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h b/tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h
index e7ee32861d51d4b2e47b9182a48c05fe837b8d21..abd238d0f7a48d718728cacde7853c60846bc539 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h
@@ -15,9 +15,7 @@
 #define PROT_GROWSDOWN	0x01000000	/* mprotect flag: extend change to start of growsdown vma */
 #define PROT_GROWSUP	0x02000000	/* mprotect flag: extend change to end of growsup vma */
 
-#define MAP_SHARED	0x01		/* Share changes */
-#define MAP_PRIVATE	0x02		/* Changes are private */
-#define MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE 0x03	/* share + validate extension flags */
+/* 0x01 - 0x03 are defined in linux/mman.h */
 #define MAP_TYPE	0x0f		/* Mask for type of mapping */
 #define MAP_FIXED	0x10		/* Interpret addr exactly */
 #define MAP_ANONYMOUS	0x20		/* don't use a file */
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman.h b/tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman.h
index 653687d9771b9d0e824fe4b25eee079f7fcec1cc..36c197fc44a0d5df08110715f11cb8b3eb6caff7 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_MMAN_H
 #define __ASM_GENERIC_MMAN_H
 
-#include <asm-generic/mman-common.h>
+#include <asm-generic/mman-common-tools.h>
 
 #define MAP_GROWSDOWN	0x0100		/* stack-like segment */
 #define MAP_DENYWRITE	0x0800		/* ETXTBSY */
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/mman.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/mman.h
index d0f515d53299ea5784ffdb61dd1b829b04fd045c..fc1a64c3447bf6e329bba5e155053332794a0187 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/mman.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/mman.h
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 #define OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS		1
 #define OVERCOMMIT_NEVER		2
 
+#define MAP_SHARED	0x01		/* Share changes */
+#define MAP_PRIVATE	0x02		/* Changes are private */
+#define MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE 0x03	/* share + validate extension flags */
+
 /*
  * Huge page size encoding when MAP_HUGETLB is specified, and a huge page
  * size other than the default is desired.  See hugetlb_encode.h.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index 01f7555fd93369a60d8abe6bee7198eb1cbd3e12..e8c9f77e9010748fc81695965441439cd15780c5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -481,8 +481,8 @@ $(madvise_behavior_array): $(madvise_hdr_dir)/mman-common.h $(madvise_behavior_t
 mmap_flags_array := $(beauty_outdir)/mmap_flags_array.c
 mmap_flags_tbl := $(srctree)/tools/perf/trace/beauty/mmap_flags.sh
 
-$(mmap_flags_array): $(asm_generic_uapi_dir)/mman.h $(asm_generic_uapi_dir)/mman-common.h $(mmap_flags_tbl)
-	$(Q)$(SHELL) '$(mmap_flags_tbl)' $(asm_generic_uapi_dir) $(arch_asm_uapi_dir) > $@
+$(mmap_flags_array): $(linux_uapi_dir)/mman.h $(asm_generic_uapi_dir)/mman.h $(asm_generic_uapi_dir)/mman-common.h $(mmap_flags_tbl)
+	$(Q)$(SHELL) '$(mmap_flags_tbl)' $(linux_uapi_dir) $(asm_generic_uapi_dir) $(arch_asm_uapi_dir) > $@
 
 mount_flags_array := $(beauty_outdir)/mount_flags_array.c
 mount_flags_tbl := $(srctree)/tools/perf/trace/beauty/mount_flags.sh
diff --git a/tools/perf/check-headers.sh b/tools/perf/check-headers.sh
index 7b55613924ded7a0f965c80799b1d9230bc320d9..c68ee06cae637fe5aad2c51e2dba1e16af0b5064 100755
--- a/tools/perf/check-headers.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/check-headers.sh
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ done
 # diff with extra ignore lines
 check arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S        '-I "^EXPORT_SYMBOL" -I "^#include <asm/export.h>"'
 check arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S        '-I "^EXPORT_SYMBOL" -I "^#include <asm/export.h>"'
-check include/uapi/asm-generic/mman.h '-I "^#include <\(uapi/\)*asm-generic/mman-common.h>"'
+check include/uapi/asm-generic/mman.h '-I "^#include <\(uapi/\)*asm-generic/mman-common\(-tools\)*.h>"'
 check include/uapi/linux/mman.h       '-I "^#include <\(uapi/\)*asm/mman.h>"'
 
 # diff non-symmetric files
diff --git a/tools/perf/trace/beauty/mmap_flags.sh b/tools/perf/trace/beauty/mmap_flags.sh
index 32bac9c0d6947e68b65a240cd12bab853a8b6bfe..5f5eefcb3c748c13a7fe8a3cd9cd0abba9a1c538 100755
--- a/tools/perf/trace/beauty/mmap_flags.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/trace/beauty/mmap_flags.sh
@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1
 
-if [ $# -ne 2 ] ; then
+if [ $# -ne 3 ] ; then
 	[ $# -eq 1 ] && hostarch=$1 || hostarch=`uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/x86/ -e s/x86_64/x86/`
+	linux_header_dir=tools/include/uapi/linux
 	header_dir=tools/include/uapi/asm-generic
 	arch_header_dir=tools/arch/${hostarch}/include/uapi/asm
 else
-	header_dir=$1
-	arch_header_dir=$2
+	linux_header_dir=$1
+	header_dir=$2
+	arch_header_dir=$3
 fi
 
+linux_mman=${linux_header_dir}/mman.h
 arch_mman=${arch_header_dir}/mman.h
 
 # those in egrep -vw are flags, we want just the bits
@@ -20,6 +23,11 @@ egrep -q $regex ${arch_mman} && \
 (egrep $regex ${arch_mman} | \
 	sed -r "s/$regex/\2 \1/g"	| \
 	xargs printf "\t[ilog2(%s) + 1] = \"%s\",\n")
+egrep -q $regex ${linux_mman} && \
+(egrep $regex ${linux_mman} | \
+	egrep -vw 'MAP_(UNINITIALIZED|TYPE|SHARED_VALIDATE)' | \
+	sed -r "s/$regex/\2 \1/g"	| \
+	xargs printf "\t[ilog2(%s) + 1] = \"%s\",\n")
 ([ ! -f ${arch_mman} ] || egrep -q '#[[:space:]]*include[[:space:]]+<uapi/asm-generic/mman.*' ${arch_mman}) &&
 (egrep $regex ${header_dir}/mman-common.h | \
 	egrep -vw 'MAP_(UNINITIALIZED|TYPE|SHARED_VALIDATE)' | \