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

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Nov 19 2018 - 05:47:34 EST


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.