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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:49:34 +0900
From: Miles Bader <miles@....org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tools/perf: "perf record" restricted to root in latest kernel?
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org> writes:
>> Next I updated to the latest linus tree (c5974b835a), and recompiled perf.
>> It still seems to work, and has obviously had a lot of features added, but
>> now it only wants to let me run "perf record" if I'm root.
>
> Don't recall noticing such problem, here it works just fine:
>
> [acme@...pio linux-2.6-tip]$ mkdir tmp
> [acme@...pio linux-2.6-tip]$ cd tmp
> [acme@...pio tmp]$ time perf record find ~/git/ > /dev/null
> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.053 MB perf.data (~2312 samples) ]
Weird... if I try your recipe, I get:
$ cd /usr/local/tmp
$ ls
gstlfilt.zip q2.jpg q3.jpg
$ time perf record find /usr/local/src/git/ > /dev/null
Fatal: Permission error - are you root?
real 0m0.032s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.012s
> [acme@...pio linux-2.6-tip]$ uname -r
> 2.6.33-rc3-tip+
Perhaps the newer version of perf works better with newer kernels, or
with some specific option enabled? [Since it's a fairly new tool, I
suppose it may not work well unless the perf version and the kernel
version are in sync.]
I'm using a standard debian kernel:
$ uname -r
2.6.32-trunk-amd64
$ grep PERF_ /boot/config-2.6.32-trunk-amd64
CONFIG_HAVE_PERF_EVENTS=y
CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y
# CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC is not set
I notice that the system call which results in an error for me changed
between the two versions of perf -- from "sys_perf_counter_open" to
"sys_perf_event_open" -- though I don't understand the difference.
Thanks,
-Miles
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