Does anybody know of any good general profiling tools that I can use for Rust programs that don't require root access on the machine?
perf is pretty great and generally doesn't require root unless the kernel is configured to require that.
It doesn't open up threats for privilege escalation by allowing it to be run as non-root users, right?
If you believe perf introduces privilege escalation vulnerabilities you should probably report that to the Linux kernel security team.
I didn't have any reason too, I just wanted to make sure it was a safe thing to allow for normal users as I wasn't sure why it would be something you would want disabled.
The setting is called perf_event_paranoid
, if that tells you anything...
LOL, well I'm certainly not that paranoid about my users.
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