linux/tools/perf/util/cap.h
Ian Rogers e25ebda78e perf cap: Tidy up and improve capability testing
Remove dependence on libcap. libcap is only used to query whether a
capability is supported, which is just 1 capget system call.

If the capget system call fails, fall back on root permission
checking. Previously if libcap fails then the permission is assumed
not present which may be pessimistic/wrong.

Add a used_root out argument to perf_cap__capable to say whether the
fall back root check was used. This allows the correct error message,
"root" vs "users with the CAP_PERFMON or CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability", to
be selected.

Tidy uses of perf_cap__capable so that tests aren't repeated if capget
isn't supported.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240806220614.831914-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2024-08-20 17:53:12 -03:00

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
#ifndef __PERF_CAP_H
#define __PERF_CAP_H
#include <stdbool.h>
/* For older systems */
#ifndef CAP_SYSLOG
#define CAP_SYSLOG 34
#endif
#ifndef CAP_PERFMON
#define CAP_PERFMON 38
#endif
/* Query if a capability is supported, used_root is set if the fallback root check was used. */
bool perf_cap__capable(int cap, bool *used_root);
#endif /* __PERF_CAP_H */