From a026dfecc035f213c1cfa0bf6407ce3155f6a9df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 10:02:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] perf_counter: x86: Allow unpriviliged use of NMIs

Apply sysctl_perf_counter_priv to NMIs. Also, fail the counter
creation instead of silently down-grading to regular interrupts.

[ Impact: allow wider perf-counter usage ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
index 88ae8cebf3c1..c19e927b6979 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
@@ -280,8 +280,11 @@ static int __hw_perf_counter_init(struct perf_counter *counter)
 	 * If privileged enough, allow NMI events:
 	 */
 	hwc->nmi = 0;
-	if (capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && hw_event->nmi)
+	if (hw_event->nmi) {
+		if (sysctl_perf_counter_priv && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+			return -EACCES;
 		hwc->nmi = 1;
+	}
 
 	hwc->irq_period	= hw_event->irq_period;
 	if ((s64)hwc->irq_period <= 0 || hwc->irq_period > x86_pmu.max_period)
-- 
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