diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 6349b6c..4e82c19 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@
 -M::
 --disassembler-style=:: Set disassembler style for objdump.
 
+--show-total-period:: Show a column with the sum of periods.
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkperf:perf-stat[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index b125742..c1cc7ab 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -486,6 +486,8 @@
 	OPT_STRING('c', "cpu", &cpu_list, "cpu", "list of cpus to profile"),
 	OPT_STRING('M', "disassembler-style", &disassembler_style, "disassembler style",
 		   "Specify disassembler style (e.g. -M intel for intel syntax)"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "show-total-period", &symbol_conf.show_total_period,
+		    "Show a column with the sum of periods"),
 	OPT_END()
 };
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.c b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
index 24cca0a..32c9086 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/hist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
@@ -664,6 +664,13 @@
 			ret += snprintf(s + ret, size - ret, "%11" PRIu64, nr_events);
 	}
 
+	if (symbol_conf.show_total_period) {
+		if (sep)
+			ret += snprintf(s + ret, size - ret, "%c%" PRIu64, *sep, period);
+		else
+			ret += snprintf(s + ret, size - ret, " %12" PRIu64, period);
+	}
+
 	if (pair_hists) {
 		char bf[32];
 		double old_percent = 0, new_percent = 0, diff;
@@ -770,6 +777,13 @@
 			fputs("  Samples  ", fp);
 	}
 
+	if (symbol_conf.show_total_period) {
+		if (sep)
+			ret += fprintf(fp, "%cPeriod", *sep);
+		else
+			ret += fprintf(fp, "   Period    ");
+	}
+
 	if (symbol_conf.show_cpu_utilization) {
 		if (sep) {
 			ret += fprintf(fp, "%csys", *sep);
@@ -834,6 +848,8 @@
 	fprintf(fp, "# ........");
 	if (symbol_conf.show_nr_samples)
 		fprintf(fp, " ..........");
+	if (symbol_conf.show_total_period)
+		fprintf(fp, " ............");
 	if (pair) {
 		fprintf(fp, " ..........");
 		if (show_displacement)
@@ -917,6 +933,9 @@
 	if (symbol_conf.show_nr_samples)
 		ret += 11;
 
+	if (symbol_conf.show_total_period)
+		ret += 13;
+
 	list_for_each_entry(se, &hist_entry__sort_list, list)
 		if (!se->elide)
 			ret += 2 + hists__col_len(hists, se->se_width_idx);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
index 7733f0b..29f8d74 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
 			use_modules,
 			sort_by_name,
 			show_nr_samples,
+			show_total_period,
 			use_callchain,
 			exclude_other,
 			show_cpu_utilization,