Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] admin-guide: extend perf-security with resource control, data categories and privileged users

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Sun Feb 17 2019 - 18:15:10 EST


On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:32:33 +0300
Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The patch set extends the first version of perf-security.rst documentation
> file [1], [2], [3] with the following topics:
>
> 1) perf_events/Perf resource limits and control management that describes
> RLIMIT_NOFILE and perf_event_mlock_kb settings for processes conducting
> performance monitoring;
>
> 2) categories of system and performance data that can be captured by
> perf_events/Perf with explicit designation of process sensitive data;
>
> 3) possible steps to create perf_event/Perf privileged users groups for
> the current implementations of perf_events syscall API [4] and Perf tool;

I've applied the set, thanks.

jon