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perf_counter: sysctl for system wide perf counters

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Impact: add sysctl for paranoid/relaxed perfcounters policy

Allow the use of system wide perf counters to everybody, but provide
a sysctl to disable it for the paranoid security minded.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409085524.514046352@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra 2009-04-09 10:53:45 +02:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 9ee318a782
commit 1ccd154978
3 changed files with 16 additions and 1 deletions
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kernel/sysctl.c
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@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
#include <linux/reboot.h>
#include <linux/ftrace.h>
#include <linux/slow-work.h>
#include <linux/perf_counter.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
@ -920,6 +921,16 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.child = slow_work_sysctls,
},
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
.procname = "perf_counter_privileged",
.data = &sysctl_perf_counter_priv,
.maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_perf_counter_priv),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
#endif
/*
* NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read
* Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt