Commit-ID:  d37a369790774af66a4aee61a188384d21b17a43
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/d37a369790774af66a4aee61a188384d21b17a43
Author:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:08:07 -0300
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:14:48 -0300

perf evsel: Fix attr.exclude_kernel setting for default cycles:p

To allow probing the max attr.precise_ip setting for non-root users
we unconditionally set attr.exclude_kernel, which makes the detection
work but should be done only for !root, fix it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Fixes: 97365e81366f ("perf evsel: Set attr.exclude_kernel when probing max 
attr.precise_ip")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 87b4318..f2a1876 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ struct perf_evsel *perf_evsel__new_cycles(void)
        struct perf_event_attr attr = {
                .type   = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
                .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
-               .exclude_kernel = 1,
+               .exclude_kernel = geteuid() != 0,
        };
        struct perf_evsel *evsel;
 

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