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capabilities.7: Add CAP_PERFMON 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2020-06-12 11:50:57 +02:00
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@ -265,6 +265,23 @@ bind to any address for transparent proxying.
.PD
.\" Also various IP options and setsockopt(SO_BINDTODEVICE)
.TP
.BR CAP_PERFMON " (since Linux 5.8)"
Employ various performance-monitoring mechanisms, including:
.PD 0
.RS
.IP *2
call
.BR perf_event_open (2);
.IP *
employ various BPF operations that have performance implications.
.RE
.PD
.IP
This capability was added in Linux 5.8 to separate out
performance monitoring functionality from the overloaded
.BR CAP_SYS_ADMIN
capability.
.TP
.B CAP_SETGID
.RS
.PD 0
@ -399,8 +416,8 @@ and
(but, since Linux 3.8,
creating user namespaces does not require any capability);
.IP *
call
.BR perf_event_open (2);
employ various performance monitoring mechanisms (as for
.BR CAP_PERFMON );
.IP *
access privileged
.I perf