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2024-10-28perf cap: Add __NR_capget to arch/x86 unistdIan Rogers
As there are duplicated kernel headers in tools/include libc can pick up the wrong definitions. This was causing the wrong system call for capget in perf. Reported-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Fixes: e25ebda78e230283 ("perf cap: Tidy up and improve capability testing") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cc7d6bdf-1aeb-4179-9029-4baf50b59342@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Tested-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241026055448.312247-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2024-08-20perf cap: Tidy up and improve capability testingIan Rogers
Remove dependence on libcap. libcap is only used to query whether a capability is supported, which is just 1 capget system call. If the capget system call fails, fall back on root permission checking. Previously if libcap fails then the permission is assumed not present which may be pessimistic/wrong. Add a used_root out argument to perf_cap__capable to say whether the fall back root check was used. This allows the correct error message, "root" vs "users with the CAP_PERFMON or CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability", to be selected. Tidy uses of perf_cap__capable so that tests aren't repeated if capget isn't supported. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240806220614.831914-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-08-14perf tools: Add helpers to use capabilities if presentIgor Lubashev
Add utilities to help checking capabilities of the running procss. Make perf link with libcap, if it is available. If no libcap-dev[el], fallback to the geteuid() == 0 test used before. Committer notes: $ perf test python 18: 'import perf' in python : FAILED! $ perf test -v python Couldn't bump rlimit(MEMLOCK), failures may take place when creating BPF maps, etc 18: 'import perf' in python : --- start --- test child forked, pid 23288 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: /tmp/build/perf/python/perf.so: undefined symbol: cap_get_flag test child finished with -1 ---- end ---- 'import perf' in python: FAILED! $ This happens because differently from the perf binary generated with this patch applied: $ ldd /tmp/build/perf/perf | grep libcap libcap.so.2 => /lib64/libcap.so.2 (0x00007f724a4ef000) $ The python binding isn't linking with libcap: $ ldd /tmp/build/perf/python/perf.so | grep libcap $ So add 'cap' to the 'extra_libraries' variable in tools/perf/util/setup.py, and rebuild: $ perf test python 18: 'import perf' in python : Ok $ If we explicitely disable libcap it also continues to work: $ make NO_LIBCAP=1 -C tools/perf O=/tmp/build/perf install-bin $ ldd /tmp/build/perf/perf | grep libcap $ ldd /tmp/build/perf/python/perf.so | grep libcap $ perf test python 18: 'import perf' in python : Ok $ Signed-off-by: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org [ split from a larger patch ] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8a1e76cf5c7c9796d0d4d240fbaa85305298aafa.1565188228.git.ilubashe@akamai.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>