Re: [PATCH v5 12/20] x86: perf: intel_pt: Intel PT PMU driver

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 04:45:40PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> +static bool pt_event_valid(struct perf_event *event)
> +{
> +	u64 config = event->attr.config;
> +
> +	/* admin can set any packet generation parameters */
> +	if (capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && (config & PT_BYPASS_MASK) == config)
> +		return true;
> +
> +	if ((config & PT_CONFIG_MASK) != config)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	return true;
> +}

This seems to suggest PT is available to !priv users, is this right?
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