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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-02 21:46:00 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-02 21:53:02 +0200
commit0fbdea19e9394a5cb5f2f5081b028c50b558910a (patch)
treec3eae68d53504ed1f1615dcb7b5de58ce5d6ff98 /kernel
parentf76bd108e5031202bb40849306f98c4afebe4ef6 (diff)
perf_counter: Introduce new (non-)paranoia level to allow raw tracepoint access
I want to sample inherited tracepoint workloads as a normal user and the CAP_SYS_ADMIN check prevents me from doing that right now. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_counter.c13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index d988dfb4bba..0aa609f6910 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -46,12 +46,18 @@ static atomic_t nr_task_counters __read_mostly;
/*
* perf counter paranoia level:
- * 0 - not paranoid
- * 1 - disallow cpu counters to unpriv
- * 2 - disallow kernel profiling to unpriv
+ * -1 - not paranoid at all
+ * 0 - disallow raw tracepoint access for unpriv
+ * 1 - disallow cpu counters for unpriv
+ * 2 - disallow kernel profiling for unpriv
*/
int sysctl_perf_counter_paranoid __read_mostly = 1;
+static inline bool perf_paranoid_tracepoint_raw(void)
+{
+ return sysctl_perf_counter_paranoid > -1;
+}
+
static inline bool perf_paranoid_cpu(void)
{
return sysctl_perf_counter_paranoid > 0;
@@ -3971,6 +3977,7 @@ static const struct pmu *tp_perf_counter_init(struct perf_counter *counter)
* have these.
*/
if ((counter->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW) &&
+ perf_paranoid_tracepoint_raw() &&
!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);