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doc/admin-guide: update kernel.rst with CAP_PERFMON information 

Update the kernel.rst documentation file with the information related to
usage of CAP_PERFMON capability to secure performance monitoring and
observability operations in system.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/84c32383-14a2-fa35-16b6-f9e59bd37240@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Alexey Budankov 2020-04-02 11:54:39 +03:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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@ -730,7 +730,13 @@ perf_event_paranoid
===================
Controls use of the performance events system by unprivileged
users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN). The default value is 2.
users (without CAP_PERFMON). The default value is 2.
For backward compatibility reasons access to system performance
monitoring and observability remains open for CAP_SYS_ADMIN
privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN usage for secure system
performance monitoring and observability operations is discouraged
with respect to CAP_PERFMON use cases.
=== ==================================================================
-1 Allow use of (almost) all events by all users.
@ -739,13 +745,13 @@ users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN). The default value is 2.
``CAP_IPC_LOCK``.
>=0 Disallow ftrace function tracepoint by users without
``CAP_SYS_ADMIN``.
``CAP_PERFMON``.
Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without ``CAP_SYS_ADMIN``.
Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without ``CAP_PERFMON``.
>=1 Disallow CPU event access by users without ``CAP_SYS_ADMIN``.
>=1 Disallow CPU event access by users without ``CAP_PERFMON``.
>=2 Disallow kernel profiling by users without ``CAP_SYS_ADMIN``.
>=2 Disallow kernel profiling by users without ``CAP_PERFMON``.
=== ==================================================================