From 459ec28ab404d7afcd512ce9b855959ad301605a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:33:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf_counter: Allow mmap if paranoid checks are turned off Before: $ perf sched record -f sleep 1 Error: failed to mmap with 1 (Operation not permitted) After: $ perf sched record -f sleep 1 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.095 MB perf.data (~4161 samples) ] Note, this is only allowed if perfcounter_paranoid is set to the most permissive (non-default) value of -1. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/perf_counter.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c index e0d91fdf0c3c..667ab25ad3d5 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_counter.c +++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c @@ -2315,7 +2315,8 @@ static int perf_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma) lock_limit >>= PAGE_SHIFT; locked = vma->vm_mm->locked_vm + extra; - if ((locked > lock_limit) && !capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK)) { + if ((locked > lock_limit) && perf_paranoid_tracepoint_raw() && + !capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK)) { ret = -EPERM; goto unlock; } -- 2.30.2