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perf, x86: Restrict the ANY flag

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The ANY flag can show SMT data of another task (like 'top'),
so we want to disable it when system-wide profiling is
disabled.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-02 12:35:37 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent bb1165d688
commit 320ebf09cb
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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
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@ -503,6 +503,9 @@ static int __hw_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
*/
if (attr->type == PERF_TYPE_RAW) {
hwc->config |= x86_pmu.raw_event(attr->config);
if ((hwc->config & ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ANY) &&
perf_paranoid_cpu() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EACCES;
return 0;
}