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Commit 98481e79 authored by Len Brown's avatar Len Brown
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tools/power turbostat: relax dependency on root permission



For turbostat to run as non-root, it needs to permissions:

1. read access to /dev/cpu/*/msr
	via standard user/group/world file permissions

2. CAP_SYS_RAWIO
	eg.  # setcap cap_sys_rawio=ep turbostat

Yes, running as root still works.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
parent bfa76d49
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