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>
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