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    perf tools: Add helpers to use capabilities if present · c22e150e
    Igor Lubashev 提交于
    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: NIgor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>
    Acked-by: NJiri 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.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    c22e150e
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