diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 58c089461f08..2de02bacb651 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: a1bca6cc87fee26f3d9120b3f3418b7edfc91ec2
+refs/heads/master: d4ffd04df175f8cab711d7857173285d971a406a
diff --git a/trunk/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/trunk/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 076eda53cfba..0ffbd97fb74f 100644
--- a/trunk/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/trunk/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -1198,9 +1198,11 @@ int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (csv_sep)
+	if (csv_sep) {
 		csv_output = true;
-	else
+		if (!strcmp(csv_sep, "\\t"))
+			csv_sep = "\t";
+	} else
 		csv_sep = DEFAULT_SEPARATOR;
 
 	/*