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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index b1845f799d81..fd865002cbbd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -2502,8 +2502,10 @@ int evsel__open_strerror(struct evsel *evsel, struct target *target,
return scnprintf(msg + printed, size - printed,
"Consider adjusting /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid setting to open\n"
- "access to performance monitoring and observability operations for users\n"
- "without CAP_PERFMON or CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capability.\n"
+ "access to performance monitoring and observability operations for processes\n"
+ "without CAP_PERFMON, CAP_SYS_PTRACE or CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capability.\n"
+ "More information can be found at 'Perf events and tool security' document:\n"
+ "https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/perf-security.html\n"
"perf_event_paranoid setting is %d:\n"
" -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users\n"
" Ignore mlock limit after perf_event_mlock_kb without CAP_IPC_LOCK\n"