From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07118C43381 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:15:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C82BD206C0 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727218AbfBQXPI (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:15:08 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:38146 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726283AbfBQXPI (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:15:08 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 690392DC; Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:14:52 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:14:28 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Alexey Budankov Cc: Kees Cook , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Jann Horn , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Alexander Shishkin , Andi Kleen , Mark Rutland , Tvrtko Ursulin , "kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] admin-guide: extend perf-security with resource control, data categories and privileged users Message-ID: <20190217161428.6b43608a@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <784bbe0d-56c1-bd63-1879-b7db988e40c0@linux.intel.com> References: <784bbe0d-56c1-bd63-1879-b7db988e40c0@linux.intel.com> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.3 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:32:33 +0300 Alexey Budankov 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