5 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Alexey Budankov	e85a198e30	perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns ... Implemented formatting of paragraphs to be not wider than 72 columns. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>	2019-02-17 16:05:00 -07:00
Alexey Budankov	e152c7b7bf	perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users ... Elaborate on possible perf_event/Perf privileged users groups and document steps about creating such groups. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>	2019-02-17 16:04:56 -07:00
Alexey Budankov	68570ca0b4	perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories ... Document and categorize system and performance data into groups that can be captured by perf_events/Perf and explicitly indicate the group that can contain process sensitive data. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>	2019-02-17 16:04:51 -07:00
Alexey Budankov	9d87bbae2d	perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control ... Extend perf-security.rst file with perf_events/Perf resource control section describing RLIMIT_NOFILE and perf_event_mlock_kb settings for performance monitoring user processes. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>	2019-02-17 16:04:45 -07:00
Alexey Budankov	76e7fd843e	Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file ... Implement initial version of perf-security.rst documentation file covering security concerns of perf_event_paranoid settings. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>	2018-12-06 09:50:33 -07:00