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SubjectRe: tools/perf: "perf record" restricted to root in latest kernel?
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On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 05:48 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 11:49 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
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> > Perhaps the newer version of perf works better with newer kernels
>
> Yup. Bisects back to 60ab271617cec607380099f3ed8e84916e48323b. If
> running latest kernel, normal user can record fine. Running 31 or 32
> kernel with latest perf though, I see the same permission error. Not
> immediately obvious to me why reverting this commit does indeed fix it.

That commit will do something the old perf doesn't support and will fail
to create the counters.



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