Open access to monitoring for CAP_SYS_PERFMON privileged processes. For backward compatibility reasons access to the monitoring remains open for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN usage for secure monitoring is discouraged with respect to CAP_SYS_PERFMON capability. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c index 4e4984a55cd1..5dff81bc3324 100644 --- a/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static u64 arm_spe_event_to_pmscr(struct perf_event *event) if (!attr->exclude_kernel) reg |= BIT(SYS_PMSCR_EL1_E1SPE_SHIFT); - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PID_IN_CONTEXTIDR) && capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PID_IN_CONTEXTIDR) && perfmon_capable()) reg |= BIT(SYS_PMSCR_EL1_CX_SHIFT); return reg; @@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ static int arm_spe_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event) return -EOPNOTSUPP; reg = arm_spe_event_to_pmscr(event); - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && + if (!perfmon_capable() && (reg & (BIT(SYS_PMSCR_EL1_PA_SHIFT) | BIT(SYS_PMSCR_EL1_CX_SHIFT) | BIT(SYS_PMSCR_EL1_PCT_SHIFT)))) -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
