Hi,

Is there any plans or may be even progress on that so far?

Thanks,
Alexey

On 26.06.2018 18:36, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <[email protected]>
> 
> For situations where sysadmins might want to allow different level of
> access control for different PMUs, we start creating per-PMU
> perf_event_paranoid controls in sysfs.
> 
> These work in equivalent fashion as the existing perf_event_paranoid
> sysctl, which now becomes the parent control for each PMU.
> 
> On PMU registration the global/parent value will be inherited by each PMU,
> as it will be propagated to all registered PMUs when the sysctl is
> updated.
> 
> At any later point individual PMU access controls, located in
> <sysfs>/device/<pmu-name>/perf_event_paranoid, can be adjusted to achieve
> fine grained access control.
> 
> Discussion from previous posting:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/21/156
> 
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> 
> Tvrtko Ursulin (4):
>   perf: Move some access checks later in perf_event_open
>   perf: Pass pmu pointer to perf_paranoid_* helpers
>   perf: Allow per PMU access control
>   perf Documentation: Document the per PMU perf_event_paranoid interface
> 
>  .../sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-events     |  14 +++
>  arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c               |   2 +-
>  arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c                   |   2 +-
>  arch/x86/events/intel/core.c                  |   2 +-
>  arch/x86/events/intel/p4.c                    |   2 +-
>  include/linux/perf_event.h                    |  18 ++-
>  kernel/events/core.c                          | 104 +++++++++++++++---
>  kernel/sysctl.c                               |   4 +-
>  kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c               |   6 +-
>  9 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 

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