capabilities · Supported

Maintainers

• M Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/capability.h
• F include/trace/events/capability.h
• F include/uapi/linux/capability.h
• F kernel/capability.c
• F security/commoncap.c
• F security/commoncap_test.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 9 patches in this subsystem on linux-perf-users, ordered by date desc.

• STALE438d [PATCH v5 3/3] treewide: Switch from tsk->comm to tsk->comm_str which is 64 bytes long
  2025-07-16 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE1922d [PATCH] perf: Require CAP_KILL if sigtrap is requested
  2021-06-30 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE2341d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH 05/60] capabilities: Introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space
  2020-04-20 · Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
• STALE2365d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH 05/26] capabilities: Introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space
  2020-04-13 · Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
• STALE2377d [PATCH v6 01/10] capabilities: introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space
  2020-01-28 · Alexey Budankov <hidden>
• STALE2419d [PATCH v5 01/10] capabilities: introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space
  2020-01-20 · Alexey Budankov <hidden>
• STALE2376d [PATCH v4 1/9] capabilities: introduce CAP_SYS_PERFMON to kernel and user space
  2019-12-18 · Alexey Budankov <hidden>
• STALE2484d [PATCH v3 1/7] capabilities: introduce CAP_SYS_PERFMON to kernel and user space
  2019-12-16 · Alexey Budankov <hidden>
• STALE2484d [PATCH v2 1/7] capabilities: introduce CAP_SYS_PERFMON to kernel and user space
  2019-12-16 · Alexey Budankov <hidden>