arm64: perf: Add userspace counter access disable switch
commit e2012600 upstream Like x86, some users may want to disable userspace PMU counter altogether. Add a sysctl 'perf_user_access' file to control userspace counter access. The default is '0' which is disabled. Writing '1' enables access. Note that x86 supports globally enabling user access by writing '2' to /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/rdpmc. As there's not existing userspace support to worry about, this shouldn't be necessary for Arm. It could be added later if the need arises. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208201124.310740-4-robh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> [AZ: backport of e2012600 from master branch of linux-mainline] Signed-off-by: Adrian Zaharia <Adrian.Zaharia@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ruiqiang Hao <Ruiqiang.Hao@windriver.com>
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