From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 08:02:57 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: perf_counter: x86: Allow unpriviliged use of NMIs
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc1~383^2~279
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a026dfecc035f213c1cfa0bf6407ce3155f6a9df;p=pandora-kernel.git

perf_counter: x86: Allow unpriviliged use of NMIs

Apply sysctl_perf_counter_priv to NMIs. Also, fail the counter
creation instead of silently down-grading to regular interrupts.

[ Impact: allow wider perf-counter usage ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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