const char **ids;
        const char *metric_name;
        const char *metric_expr;
+       const char *metric_unit;
 };
 
 static bool record_evsel(int *ind, struct evsel **start,
                }
                expr->metric_expr = eg->metric_expr;
                expr->metric_name = eg->metric_name;
+               expr->metric_unit = eg->metric_unit;
                expr->metric_events = metric_events;
                list_add(&expr->nd, &me->head);
        }
                        eg->idnum = idnum;
                        eg->metric_name = pe->metric_name;
                        eg->metric_expr = pe->metric_expr;
+                       eg->metric_unit = pe->unit;
                        list_add_tail(&eg->nd, group_list);
                        ret = 0;
                }
 
                           struct evsel **metric_events,
                           char *name,
                           const char *metric_name,
+                          const char *metric_unit,
                           double avg,
                           int cpu,
                           struct perf_stat_output_ctx *out,
 {
        print_metric_t print_metric = out->print_metric;
        struct parse_ctx pctx;
-       double ratio;
+       double ratio, scale;
        int i;
        void *ctxp = out->ctx;
        char *n, *pn;
        for (i = 0; metric_events[i]; i++) {
                struct saved_value *v;
                struct stats *stats;
-               double scale;
 
                if (!strcmp(metric_events[i]->name, "duration_time")) {
                        stats = &walltime_nsecs_stats;
        if (!metric_events[i]) {
                const char *p = metric_expr;
 
-               if (expr__parse(&ratio, &pctx, &p) == 0)
-                       print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, "%8.1f",
-                               metric_name ?
-                               metric_name :
-                               out->force_header ?  name : "",
-                               ratio);
-               else
+               if (expr__parse(&ratio, &pctx, &p) == 0) {
+                       char *unit;
+                       char metric_bf[64];
+
+                       if (metric_unit && metric_name) {
+                               if (perf_pmu__convert_scale(metric_unit,
+                                       &unit, &scale) >= 0) {
+                                       ratio *= scale;
+                               }
+
+                               scnprintf(metric_bf, sizeof(metric_bf),
+                                         "%s  %s", unit, metric_name);
+                               print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, "%8.1f",
+                                            metric_bf, ratio);
+                       } else {
+                               print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, "%8.1f",
+                                       metric_name ?
+                                       metric_name :
+                                       out->force_header ?  name : "",
+                                       ratio);
+                       }
+               } else {
                        print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, NULL,
                                     out->force_header ?
                                     (metric_name ? metric_name : name) : "", 0);
+               }
        } else
                print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, NULL, "", 0);
 
                        print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, NULL, name, 0);
        } else if (evsel->metric_expr) {
                generic_metric(config, evsel->metric_expr, evsel->metric_events, evsel->name,
-                               evsel->metric_name, avg, cpu, out, st);
+                               evsel->metric_name, NULL, avg, cpu, out, st);
        } else if (runtime_stat_n(st, STAT_NSECS, 0, cpu) != 0) {
                char unit = 'M';
                char unit_buf[10];
                                out->new_line(config, ctxp);
                        generic_metric(config, mexp->metric_expr, mexp->metric_events,
                                        evsel->name, mexp->metric_name,
-                                       avg, cpu, out, st);
+                                       mexp->metric_unit, avg, cpu, out, st);
                }
        }
        if (num == 0)