Re: Port the period data column to centos6.7 for perf script

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:24:15AM +0800, çèé wrote:
>    Hi, all.
>    I want to draw off-cpu flamegraph using perf script on centos6.7(kernel
>    version, 2.6.32-573), and I found perf script lacks the period data column
>    on that version. IÃÂ found two related patches, and modifed
>    builin-script.c in reference to those patches.
>    perf script:Add period data column authorJiri Olsa 2014-08-25 16:45:42
>    +0200 commit535aeaae7de821ba5d43ee2a204ee667ca95aae4
>    perf script: Add period as a default output column
>    commite8564b710c6df2c3aeb56c507c22f4bcfa4c0b2d)
> 

I would just compile the newer perf binary for Centos6 and use that. It should
work with older kernels too. That's much easier than backporting, and you get
many more features.

-Andi