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Igor Lubashev authored
Perf was too restrictive about sysctl kernel.perf_event_paranoid. The kernel only disallows profiling when perf_event_paranoid > 1. Make perf do the same. Committer testing: For a non-root user: $ id uid=1000(acme) gid=1000(acme) groups=1000(acme),10(wheel) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 $ Before: We were restricting it to just userspace (:u suffix) even for a workload started by the user: $ perf record sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.001 MB perf.data (8 samples) ] $ perf evlist cycles:u $ perf evlist -v cycles:u: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, exclude_kernel: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1 $ perf report --stdio # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 8 of event 'cycles:u' # Event count (approx.): 1040396 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................ ...................... # 68.36% sleep libc-2.29.so [.] _dl_addr 27.33% sleep ld-2.29.so [.] dl_main 3.80% sleep ld-2.29.so [.] _dl_setup_hash # # (Tip: Order by the overhead of source file name and line number: perf report -s srcline) # $ $ After: When the kernel allows profiling the kernel in that scenario: $ perf record sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.023 MB perf.data (11 samples) ] $ perf evlist cycles $ perf evlist -v cycles: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1 $ $ perf report --stdio # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 11 of event 'cycles' # Event count (approx.): 1601964 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................ .......................... # 28.14% sleep [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __rb_erase_color 27.21% sleep [kernel.vmlinux] [k] unmap_page_range 27.20% sleep ld-2.29.so [.] __tunable_get_val 15.24% sleep [kernel.vmlinux] [k] thp_get_unmapped_area 1.96% perf [kernel.vmlinux] [k] perf_event_exec 0.22% perf [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_sched_clock 0.02% perf [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_bts_enable_local 0.00% perf [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr # # (Tip: Boolean options have negative forms, e.g.: perf report --no-children) # $ Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566869956-7154-4-git-send-email-ilubashe@akamai.comSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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