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On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 12:33:51AM +0100, Andreas Hollmann wrote:
> Thanks, this is what I was looking for!
> 
> Why was the formula language abandoned? To restricted?
> It would be still useful for interval prints.

yea the python script interface is way more powerful
then whatever we would come with

> 
> perf stat record und perf stat report work,
> but I get with perf script the following output/error. (Kernel 4.4,
> perf 4.5-rc2)
> 
> $ perf script -s scripts/python/stat-cpi.py
> Display of symbols requested but neither sample IP nor sample address
> is selected. Hence, no addresses to convert to symbols.

hum, what was the record command? so I could recreate..

thanks,
jirka