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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-02-03 10:58:46 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-02-03 10:58:46 +0100
commit402e8db5c1e65b115f15f0c28cabe209647b1ee5 (patch)
treec5f14a1d5620c0f2067cb88a6fb6d84f18ab4d58 /Documentation
parent34229b277480f46c1e9a19f027f30b074512e68b (diff)
parent5ac76283b32b116c58e362e99542182ddcfc8262 (diff)
Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: User visible changes: - Rename the "colors.code" ~/.perfconfig variable to "colors.jump_arrows", as it controls just the that UI element in the annotate browser (Taeung Song) - Avoid trying to read ELF symtabs from device files, noticed while doing memory profiling work (Jiri Olsa) - Improve context detection when offering options in the hists browser, i.e. some options don't make sense when the browser is not working with a perf.data file ('perf top' mode), only in 'perf report' mode, like scripting (Namhyung Kim) Infrastructure changes: - Elliminate duplication in the hists browser filter functions, getting the common part into a function that receives callbacks for filtering by DSO, thread, etc. (Namhyung Kim) - Fix misleadingly indented assignment, found using gcc6 -Wmisleading-indentation (Markus Trippelsdorf) - Handle LLVM relocation oddities in libbpf, introducing a 'perf test' that detects such problems and then fixing the problem, so that the test now passes (Wang Nan) - More improvements to the build infrastructure to allow reusing the feature detection facilities (Wang Nan) - Auto initialize the globals needed by cpu__max_{cpu,node}() routines (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Documentation changes: - Document the perf sysctls in Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt (Ben Hutchings) - Document a bunch more ~/.perfconfig knobs (Taeung Song) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt13
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index a93b414672a7..f886fbb1ad05 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
- panic_on_stackoverflow
- panic_on_unrecovered_nmi
- panic_on_warn
+- perf_cpu_time_max_percent
+- perf_event_paranoid
- pid_max
- powersave-nap [ PPC only ]
- printk
@@ -639,6 +641,17 @@ allowed to execute.
==============================================================
+perf_event_paranoid:
+
+Controls use of the performance events system by unprivileged
+users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN). The default value is 1.
+
+ -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users
+>=0: Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without CAP_IOC_LOCK
+>=1: Disallow CPU event access by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+>=2: Disallow kernel profiling by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+
+==============================================================
pid_max: