From: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/12] Introduce CAP_PERFMON to secure system performance monitoring and observability
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 20:32:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <369aaea6-3532-859e-7f1a-4df7806351c5@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200407170251.GE12003@kernel.org>
On 07.04.2020 20:02, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 07:52:56PM +0300, Alexey Budankov escreveu:
>>
>> On 07.04.2020 19:36, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>>> Em Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 05:54:27PM +0300, Alexey Budankov escreveu:
>>>> Could makes sense adding cap_ipc_lock to the binary to isolate from this:
>
>>>> kernel/events/core.c: 6101
>>>> if ((locked > lock_limit) && perf_is_paranoid() &&
>>>> !capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK)) {
>>>> ret = -EPERM;
>>>> goto unlock;
>>>> }
>
>>> That did the trick, I'll update the documentation and include in my
>>> "Committer testing" section:
>
>> Looks like top mode somehow reaches perf mmap limit described here [1].
>> Using -m option solves the issue avoiding cap_ipc_lock on my 8 cores machine:
>> perf top -e cycles -m 1
>
> So this would read better?
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst
> index ed33682e26b0..d44dd24b0244 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst
> @@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ taken to create such groups of privileged Perf users.
>
> ::
>
> - # setcap "cap_perfmon,cap_ipc_lock,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_syslog=ep" perf
> - # setcap -v "cap_perfmon,cap_ipc_lock,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_syslog=ep" perf
> + # setcap "cap_perfmon,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_syslog=ep" perf
> + # setcap -v "cap_perfmon,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_syslog=ep" perf
> perf: OK
> # getcap perf
> perf = cap_sys_ptrace,cap_syslog,cap_perfmon+ep
> @@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ i.e.:
>
> # setcap "38,cap_ipc_lock,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_syslog=ep" perf
>
> +Note that you may need to have 'cap_ipc_lock' in the mix for tools such as
> +'perf top', alternatively use 'perf top -m N', to reduce the memory that
> +it uses for the perf ring buffer, see the memory allocation section below.
> +
Let's stay with the first variant of you addition to this patch and also
extend the paragraph below as suggested in other mail in the thread.
> As a result, members of perf_users group are capable of conducting
> performance monitoring and observability by using functionality of the
> configured Perf tool executable that, when executes, passes perf_events
>
Thanks,
Alexey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-07 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-02 8:42 [PATCH v8 00/12] Introduce CAP_PERFMON to secure system performance monitoring and observability Alexey Budankov
2020-04-02 8:45 ` [PATCH v8 01/12] capabilities: introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 12:17 ` [tip: perf/core] capabilities: Introduce " tip-bot2 for Alexey Budankov
2020-04-02 8:46 ` [PATCH v8 02/12] perf/core: open access to the core for CAP_PERFMON privileged process Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 12:17 ` [tip: perf/core] perf/core: Open " tip-bot2 for Alexey Budankov
2020-04-02 8:47 ` [PATCH v8 03/12] perf/core: open access to probes " Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 12:17 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Alexey Budankov
2020-04-02 8:47 ` [PATCH v8 04/12] perf tool: extend Perf tool with CAP_PERFMON capability support Alexey Budankov
2020-04-03 11:08 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-04-03 13:08 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-04-04 2:18 ` Namhyung Kim
2020-04-04 8:18 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 12:17 ` [tip: perf/core] perf tools: Support CAP_PERFMON capability tip-bot2 for Alexey Budankov
2020-04-02 8:48 ` [PATCH v8 05/12] drm/i915/perf: open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 12:17 ` [tip: perf/core] drm/i915/perf: Open " tip-bot2 for Alexey Budankov
2020-04-02 8:48 ` [PATCH v8 06/12] trace/bpf_trace: open " Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 12:17 ` [tip: perf/core] trace/bpf_trace: Open " tip-bot2 for Alexey Budankov
2020-04-02 8:49 ` [PATCH v8 07/12] powerpc/perf: open " Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 12:17 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Alexey Budankov
2020-04-02 8:50 ` [PATCH v8 08/12] parisc/perf: " Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 12:17 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Alexey Budankov
2020-04-02 8:51 ` [PATCH v8 09/12] drivers/perf: " Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 12:17 ` [tip: perf/core] drivers/perf: Open " tip-bot2 for Alexey Budankov
2020-04-02 8:53 ` [PATCH v8 10/12] drivers/oprofile: open " Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 12:17 ` [tip: perf/core] drivers/oprofile: Open " tip-bot2 for Alexey Budankov
2020-04-02 8:54 ` [PATCH v8 11/12] doc/admin-guide: update perf-security.rst with CAP_PERFMON information Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 12:17 ` [tip: perf/core] doc/admin-guide: Update " tip-bot2 for Alexey Budankov
2020-04-02 8:54 ` [PATCH v8 12/12] doc/admin-guide: update kernel.rst " Alexey Budankov
2020-04-05 14:10 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-05 14:41 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-04-05 14:54 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-04-05 15:05 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-05 15:51 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-04-22 12:17 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Alexey Budankov
2020-04-07 14:30 ` [PATCH v8 00/12] Introduce CAP_PERFMON to secure system performance monitoring and observability Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-07 14:35 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-07 14:54 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-04-07 16:36 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-07 16:40 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-07 17:17 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-04-07 16:52 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-04-07 17:02 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-07 17:32 ` Alexey Budankov [this message]
2020-04-07 16:56 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-07 17:23 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-07-10 13:31 ` Ravi Bangoria
2020-07-10 14:30 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-07-10 17:09 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-07-13 9:48 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-07-13 12:17 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-07-13 12:37 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-07-13 18:51 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-07-14 10:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-14 15:27 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-07-21 13:06 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-07-22 11:30 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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