New: support for PERFMON capability, silent mode and some extra env

debug variables

deployment/pcm/README.md

@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ Helm chart instructions
 - Support for bare-metal and VM host configurations (files: [values-metal.yaml](values-metal.yaml), [values-vm.yaml](values-vm.yaml)),
 - Ability to deploy multiple releases alongside configured differently to handle different kinds of machines (bare-metal, VM) at the [same time](#heterogeneous-mixed-vmmetal-instances-cluster),
 - Linux Watchdog handling (controlled with `PCM_KEEP_NMI_WATCHDOG`, `PCM_NO_AWS_WORKAROUND`, `nmiWatchdogMount` values).
-- Deploy to own namespace with "helm install ... **-n pcm --create-namespace**"
-- Silent mode (value: `silent=false`, default)
+- Deploy to own namespace with "helm install ... **-n pcm --create-namespace**".
+- Silent mode (value: `silent=false`, default).
+- Backward compatbile with older Linux kernels (<5.8) - (value: cap_perfmon).
 
 Here are available methods in this chart of metrics collection w.r.t interfaces and required access:
 
@@ -87,7 +88,6 @@ More information here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/security/ns-level-ps
 #### 1) (Optionally) mount resctrl filesystem (for RDT metrics) to unload "msr" kernel module for validation
 
 ```
-echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid
 mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
 ```
 

deployment/pcm/templates/_helpers.tpl

@@ -60,9 +60,8 @@ securityContext:
   */}}
   capabilities:
     add:
-    - SYS_ADMIN
+    - {{ if .Values.cap_perfmon }}PERFMON{{ else }}SYS_ADMIN{{ end }} 
     - SYS_RAWIO
-    #- PERFMON
 {{- end }}
 {{- end }}
 

deployment/pcm/templates/daemonset.yaml

@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ spec:
           value: {{ .Values.PCM_KEEP_NMI_WATCHDOG | quote }} 
         - name: PCM_NO_AWS_WORKAROUND
           value: {{ .Values.PCM_NO_AWS_WORKAROUND | quote }} 
+        - name: PCM_NO_UNCORE_PMU_DISCOVERY
+          value: {{ .Values.PCM_NO_UNCORE_PMU_DISCOVERY | quote }} 
+        - name: PCM_PRINT_UNCORE_PMU_DISCOVERY
+          value: {{ .Values.PCM_PRINT_UNCORE_PMU_DISCOVERY | quote }} 
+        - name: PCM_PRINT_TOPOLOGY
+          value: {{ .Values.PCM_PRINT_TOPOLOGY | quote }} 
+
         {{- with .Values.probes }}
         livenessProbe:
           {{- include "pcm.probe" . | nindent 12 }}

deployment/pcm/values.yaml

@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ imagePullSecrets: {}
 # Configures SecurityContext to not privileged (by default) so SYS_ADMIN/SYS_RAWIO capabilietes are required for running pod
 privileged: false
 
+# Use new kernel 5.8+ PERFMON (least privileged) instead of generic SYS_ADMIN capability
+# !Warning requires kernel 5.8+ 
+# more info here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/perf-security.html#perf-events-access-control
+cap_perfmon: true
+
 # Run pcm in silent mode (additional -silent argument to pcm-sensor-server binary)
 # Removes some of debug outputs (like warnings about unability to open some /sys... /proc... files)
 silent: false
@@ -72,6 +77,11 @@ PCM_NO_AWS_WORKAROUND: 0
 # mounting watchdog is recommened when PCM_KEEP_NMI_WATCHDOG=0 or we expect AWS workaround to be applied
 nmiWatchdogMount: true
 
+### -------------- Other (Debugging options for uncore pmu discovery)
+PCM_NO_UNCORE_PMU_DISCOVERY: 0      #  skip 1: this is not required for direct privileged access and with 0 ends with WARNING enumaration failed
+PCM_PRINT_UNCORE_PMU_DISCOVERY: 1   #  show: discovered pmu 
+PCM_PRINT_TOPOLOGY: 0               #  show individual CPU topology  for each core (plenty of lines)
+
 ### =============================== Optional POD fields no related to PCM ===============================
 # Pod level
 podAnnotations: {}