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perf_counter: Introduce new (non-)paranoia level to allow raw tracepoint access
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:46:00 +0000 (21:46 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:53:02 +0000 (21:53 +0200)
commit0fbdea19e9394a5cb5f2f5081b028c50b558910a
treec3eae68d53504ed1f1615dcb7b5de58ce5d6ff98tree | snapshot
parentf76bd108e5031202bb40849306f98c4afebe4ef6commit | 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>
kernel/perf_counter.c diff | blob | history
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