Re: [PATCH v1 2/2]: Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file

From: Jordan Glover
Date: Mon Nov 19 2018 - 05:49:45 EST


On Monday, November 19, 2018 11:46 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:35:59AM +0000, Jordan Glover wrote:
>
> > On Monday, November 19, 2018 6:42 AM, Alexey Budankov alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > +>=3:
> > >
> > > - Restrict *access* to PCL performance monitoring for unprivileged processes.
> > >
> > >
> > > - This is the default on Debian and Android [7]_ , [8]_ .
> > >
> > >
> >
> > AFAIK there is no support for '+>=3' in mainline kernel[1].
> > Debian and Android use out-of-tree patch for that[2].
> > Maybe someone should upstream it?
>
> NAK still stands on that. Alternative's have been proposed but so far
> nobody that cared seems to care enough to implement those.

So, I guess we can't document NAKed patches :)

Jordan