Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:51:57 +0200 | From | "stephane eranian" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/1] x86, ptrace: PEBS support |
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > > > Should we skip the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK check if capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK)? > > FWIW I don't think we should. They are not really related. > That is true even though I see in mlock() that both are actually used. I don't check against capabilities in perfmon, but I check RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for the sampling buffer.
I see the capset()/capget() syscalls, however, I am still not clear as to how a sysadmin could set up the capabilities for users via PAM or other security interface.
> > > It's a fairly large patch. > > The original version was much smaller -- a lot of the increase came out of > review feedback for "more infrastructure" etc. I don't think you can blame > Markus for that. > I believe the patch could potentially be broken into multiple pieces: ds/bts, pebs, ptrace.
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