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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 18:19:03 +0300
From: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com>
To: Jordan Glover <Golden_Miller83@...tonmail.ch>,
 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
 Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
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 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@...ulin.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2]: Documentation/admin-guide: introduce
 perf-security.rst file

Hi,

On 19.11.2018 13:49, Jordan Glover wrote:
> On Monday, November 19, 2018 11:46 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:35:59AM +0000, Jordan Glover wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday, November 19, 2018 6:42 AM, Alexey Budankov alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> +>=3:
>>>>
>>>> -         Restrict *access* to PCL performance monitoring for unprivileged processes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -         This is the default on Debian and Android [7]_ , [8]_ .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> AFAIK there is no support for '+>=3' in mainline kernel[1].
>>> Debian and Android use out-of-tree patch for that[2].
>>> Maybe someone should upstream it?
>>
>> NAK still stands on that. Alternative's have been proposed but so far
>> nobody that cared seems to care enough to implement those.
> 
> So, I guess we can't document NAKed patches :)

Please stay tuned for v2.

Thanks,
Alexey

> 
> Jordan
> 
>

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