From: Igor Lubashev <[email protected]> The kernel requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN instead of euid==0 to mount debugfs for ftrace. Make perf do the same.
Signed-off-by: Igor Lubashev <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]> Cc: James Morris <[email protected]> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bd8763b72ed4d58d0b42d44fbc7eb474d32e53a3.1565188228.git.iluba...@akamai.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c index 20d4c0ce8b53..01a5bb58eb04 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ #include <signal.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <poll.h> +#include <linux/capability.h> #include "debug.h" #include <subcmd/parse-options.h> @@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ #include "target.h" #include "cpumap.h" #include "thread_map.h" +#include "util/cap.h" #include "util/config.h" @@ -281,7 +283,7 @@ static int __cmd_ftrace(struct perf_ftrace *ftrace, int argc, const char **argv) .events = POLLIN, }; - if (geteuid() != 0) { + if (!perf_cap__capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) { pr_err("ftrace only works for root!\n"); return -1; } -- 2.21.0
