doc/admin-guide: Note credentials consolidation under CAP_PERFMON
authorAlexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:16:49 +0000 (20:16 +0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 4 Nov 2020 12:42:40 +0000 (09:42 -0300)
commit4cb3fb1cd96f9e9a2c5095db42c2d7adbd5c5af9
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parent4ef8451b332662d004df269d4cdeb7d9f31419b5
doc/admin-guide: Note credentials consolidation under CAP_PERFMON

Add note that starting from Linux v5.9 CAP_PERFMON Linux capability is
enough to conduct performance monitoring and observability using
perf_events API.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2b1a92a1-84ce-5c70-837d-8ffe96849588@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst