The patch set extends the first version of perf-security.rst documentation file [1], [2], [3] with the following topics:
1) perf_events/Perf resource limits and control management that describes RLIMIT_NOFILE and perf_event_mlock_kb settings for processes conducting performance monitoring; 2) categories of system and performance data that can be captured by perf_events/Perf with explicit designation of process sensitive data; 3) possible steps to create perf_event/Perf privileged users groups for the current implementations of perf_events syscall API [4] and Perf tool; --- Alexey Budankov (4): perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst | 253 +++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-) --- Changes in v3: - added two more paragraphs on open fds and memory allocation - applied comments and corrected typos Changes in v2: - addressed comments for v1 - added fourth patch implementing 72 columns paragraph width --- [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=153736008310781&w=2 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/21/156 [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/27/604 [4] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/perf_event_open.2.html
