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From: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"selinux@vger.kernel.org" <selinux@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org" 
	<linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/4] perf docs: substitute CAP_SYS_ADMIN with CAP_PERFMON where needed
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:44:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1b48de9-e2b7-d20b-3686-3a15b73ef45c@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66f2975b-4a69-b428-7dc5-d9aa40b3c673@linux.intel.com>


Substitute CAP_SYS_ADMIN with CAP_PERFMON in the docs where admin
is mentioned. CAP_SYS_ADMIN still works in keeping with user space
backward compatibility approach.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt | 2 +-
 tools/perf/design.txt                      | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt
index 456fdcbf26ac..176597be0755 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ The v4.2 kernel introduced support for a context switch metadata event,
 PERF_RECORD_SWITCH, which allows unprivileged users to see when their processes
 are scheduled out and in, just not by whom, which is left for the
 PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE, that is only accessible in system wide context,
-which in turn requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
+which in turn requires CAP_PERFMON.
 
 Please see the 45ac1403f564 ("perf: Add PERF_RECORD_SWITCH to indicate context
 switches") commit, that introduces these metadata events for further info.
diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt
index a42fab308ff6..6fd879440c40 100644
--- a/tools/perf/design.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/design.txt
@@ -258,8 +258,7 @@ gets schedule to. Per task counters can be created by any user, for
 their own tasks.
 
 A 'pid == -1' and 'cpu == x' counter is a per CPU counter that counts
-all events on CPU-x. Per CPU counters need CAP_PERFMON or CAP_SYS_ADMIN
-privilege.
+all events on CPU-x. Per CPU counters need CAP_PERFMON privilege.
 
 The 'flags' parameter is currently unused and must be zero.
 
-- 
2.24.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-22 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-22 14:40 [PATCH v2 0/4] perf: make Perf tool aware of SELinux access control Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 14:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] perf trace: substitute CAP_SYS_ADMIN with CAP_PERFMON in error message Alexey Budankov
2020-04-23 13:20   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-23 14:49     ` Alexey Budankov
2020-04-23 18:10       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-22 14:44 ` Alexey Budankov [this message]
2020-04-23 13:22   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] perf docs: substitute CAP_SYS_ADMIN with CAP_PERFMON where needed Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-23 14:51     ` Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 14:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] perf tool: make Perf tool aware of SELinux access control Alexey Budankov
2020-04-23 13:27   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-23 14:58     ` Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 14:47 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] perf docs: introduce security.txt file to document related issues Alexey Budankov

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