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| author | Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> | 2017-08-20 14:39:20 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2017-08-22 13:24:54 -0300 |
| commit | ac0bb6b72f4bbab08f270a919406d971e73698b5 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d287b876d31e0e4cb27401bc222aee61e177fb7 /Documentation/sysctl | |
| parent | 2826478a6660158d261bc49ad8954a8f5c39be07 (diff) | |
perf: Fix documentation for sysctls perf_event_paranoid and perf_event_mlock_kb
Fix misprint CAP_IOC_LOCK -> CAP_IPC_LOCK. This capability have nothing
to do with raw tracepoints. This part is about bypassing mlock limits.
Sysctl kernel.perf_event_paranoid = -1 allows raw and ftrace function
tracepoints without CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150322916080.129746.11285255474738558340.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index bac23c198360..ce61d1fe08ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - perf_cpu_time_max_percent - perf_event_paranoid - perf_event_max_stack +- perf_event_mlock_kb - perf_event_max_contexts_per_stack - pid_max - powersave-nap [ PPC only ] @@ -654,7 +655,9 @@ Controls use of the performance events system by unprivileged users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN). The default value is 2. -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users ->=0: Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without CAP_IOC_LOCK + Ignore mlock limit after perf_event_mlock_kb without CAP_IPC_LOCK +>=0: Disallow ftrace function tracepoint by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN + Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN >=1: Disallow CPU event access by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN >=2: Disallow kernel profiling by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN @@ -673,6 +676,14 @@ The default value is 127. ============================================================== +perf_event_mlock_kb: + +Control size of per-cpu ring buffer not counted agains mlock limit. + +The default value is 512 + 1 page + +============================================================== + perf_event_max_contexts_per_stack: Controls maximum number of stack frame context entries for |