Re: [PATCH 7/9] ftrace, perf: Add support to use functiontracepoint in perf

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Nov 28 2011 - 15:04:13 EST


On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 14:58 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > perf stat -e ftrace:function ls
>
> Question. This is a root only command, correct? Otherwise, we are
> allowing any user to create a large performance impact to the system.

Typically not, although I haven't looked at Jiri's implementation of the
function tracepoint.


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