perf evsel: Handle EACCESS + perf_event_paranoid=2 in fallback()
Now with the default for the kernel.perf_event_paranoid sysctl being 2 [1] we need to fall back to :u, i.e. to set perf_event_attr.exclude_kernel to 1. Before: [acme@jouet linux]$ perf record usleep 1 Error: You may not have permission to collect stats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid, which controls use of the performance events system by unprivileged users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN). The current value is 2: -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users >= 0: Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without CAP_IOC_LOCK >= 1: Disallow CPU event access by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN >= 2: Disallow kernel profiling by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN [acme@jouet linux]$ After: [acme@jouet linux]$ perf record usleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.016 MB perf.data (7 samples) ] [acme@jouet linux]$ perf evlist cycles:u [acme@jouet linux]$ perf evlist -v cycles:u: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, exclude_kernel: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 [acme@jouet linux]$ And if the user turns on verbose mode, an explanation will appear: [acme@jouet linux]$ perf record -v usleep 1 Warning: kernel.perf_event_paranoid=2, trying to fall back to excluding kernel samples mmap size 528384B [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long) Using /lib/modules/4.6.0-rc7+/build/vmlinux for symbols [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.016 MB perf.data (7 samples) ] [acme@jouet linux]$ [1] 0161028b ("perf/core: Change the default paranoia level to 2") Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-b20jmx4dxt5hpaa9t2rroi0o@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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