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

From: Alexey Budankov
Date: Mon Nov 19 2018 - 10:19:11 EST


Hi,

On 19.11.2018 13:49, Jordan Glover wrote:
> On Monday, November 19, 2018 11:46 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> 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 :)

Please stay tuned for v2.

Thanks,
Alexey

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> Jordan
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