linux/tools
Igor Lubashev aa97293ff1 perf evsel: Kernel profiling is disallowed only when perf_event_paranoid > 1
Perf was too restrictive about sysctl kernel.perf_event_paranoid. The
kernel only disallows profiling when perf_event_paranoid > 1. Make perf
do the same.

Committer testing:

For a non-root user:

  $ id
  uid=1000(acme) gid=1000(acme) groups=1000(acme),10(wheel) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
  $

Before:

We were restricting it to just userspace (:u suffix) even for a
workload started by the user:

  $ perf record sleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.001 MB perf.data (8 samples) ]
  $ perf evlist
  cycles:u
  $ perf evlist -v
  cycles:u: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, exclude_kernel: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1
  $ perf report --stdio
  # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
  #
  # Total Lost Samples: 0
  #
  # Samples: 8  of event 'cycles:u'
  # Event count (approx.): 1040396
  #
  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
  # ........  .......  ................  ......................
  #
      68.36%  sleep    libc-2.29.so      [.] _dl_addr
      27.33%  sleep    ld-2.29.so        [.] dl_main
       3.80%  sleep    ld-2.29.so        [.] _dl_setup_hash
  #
  # (Tip: Order by the overhead of source file name and line number: perf report -s srcline)
  #
  $
  $

After:

When the kernel allows profiling the kernel in that scenario:

  $ perf record sleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.023 MB perf.data (11 samples) ]
  $ perf evlist
  cycles
  $ perf evlist -v
  cycles: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1
  $
  $ perf report --stdio
  # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
  #
  # Total Lost Samples: 0
  #
  # Samples: 11  of event 'cycles'
  # Event count (approx.): 1601964
  #
  # Overhead  Command  Shared Object     Symbol
  # ........  .......  ................  ..........................
  #
      28.14%  sleep    [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] __rb_erase_color
      27.21%  sleep    [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] unmap_page_range
      27.20%  sleep    ld-2.29.so        [.] __tunable_get_val
      15.24%  sleep    [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] thp_get_unmapped_area
       1.96%  perf     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] perf_event_exec
       0.22%  perf     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_sched_clock
       0.02%  perf     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] intel_bts_enable_local
       0.00%  perf     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] native_write_msr
  #
  # (Tip: Boolean options have negative forms, e.g.: perf report --no-children)
  #
  $

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566869956-7154-4-git-send-email-ilubashe@akamai.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-08-28 17:19:05 -03:00
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firmware Driver Core and debugfs changes for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-12 12:24:03 -07:00
gpio Bulk GPIO changes for the v5.3 kernel cycle: 2019-07-09 09:07:00 -07:00
hv Tools: hv: kvp: eliminate 'may be used uninitialized' warning 2019-08-20 11:29:53 -04:00
iio Second set of IIO device support, features, cleanups and minor fixes for 5.3. 2019-07-01 10:58:13 +02:00
include Linux 5.3-rc6 2019-08-26 11:59:57 +02:00
io_uring tools/io_uring: sync with liburing 2019-05-23 10:25:26 -06:00
kvm/kvm_stat treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 499 2019-06-19 17:09:53 +02:00
laptop treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 505 2019-06-19 17:11:22 +02:00
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memory-model tools/memory-model: Improve data-race detection 2019-06-24 09:08:54 -07:00
nfsd
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pci pci-v5.3-changes 2019-07-15 20:44:49 -07:00
pcmcia treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 247 2019-06-19 17:09:08 +02:00
perf perf evsel: Kernel profiling is disallowed only when perf_event_paranoid > 1 2019-08-28 17:19:05 -03:00
power kbuild: create *.mod with full directory path and remove MODVERDIR 2019-07-18 02:19:31 +09:00
scripts perf build: Do not use -Wshadow on gcc < 4.8 2019-07-23 09:04:54 -03:00
spi treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 178 2019-05-30 11:29:19 -07:00
testing * A couple bugfixes, and mostly selftests changes. 2019-08-21 11:48:38 -07:00
thermal/tmon treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 89 2019-05-24 17:37:52 +02:00
time treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 282 2019-06-05 17:36:37 +02:00
usb treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 157 2019-05-30 11:26:37 -07:00
virtio treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 482 2019-06-19 17:09:52 +02:00
vm tools/vm/slabinfo: add sorting info to help menu 2019-07-12 11:05:46 -07:00
wmi treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
Makefile tools: Keep list of tools in alphabetical order 2019-08-14 10:59:59 -03:00