diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 87eebf3f55ae..91f31518948e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -792,10 +792,7 @@ static int __run_perf_stat(int argc, const char **argv, int run_idx)
 		if (interval || timeout) {
 			while (!waitpid(child_pid, &status, WNOHANG)) {
 				nanosleep(&ts, NULL);
-				if (timeout)
-					break;
-				process_interval();
-				if (interval_count && !(--times))
+				if (timeout || handle_interval(interval, &times))
 					break;
 			}
 		}