Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3 4/7] drm/i915/perf: open access for CAP_SYS_PERFMON privileged process | From | Lionel Landwerlin <> | Date | Tue, 17 Dec 2019 11:45:20 +0200 |
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On 16/12/2019 22:03, Alexey Budankov wrote: > Open access to i915_perf monitoring for CAP_SYS_PERFMON privileged processes. > For backward compatibility reasons access to i915_perf subsystem remains open > for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN usage for secure > i915_perf monitoring is discouraged with respect to CAP_SYS_PERFMON capability. > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Assuming people are fine with this new cap, I like this idea of a lighter privilege for i915-perf.
-Lionel
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