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@@ -905,6 +905,17 @@ enabled, otherwise writing to this file will return ``-EBUSY``.
The default value is 8.
+perf_user_access (arm64 only)
+=================================
+
+Controls user space access for reading perf event counters. When set to 1,
+user space can read performance monitor counter registers directly.
+
+The default value is 0 (access disabled).
+
+See Documentation/arm64/perf.rst for more information.
+
+
pid_max
=======
@@ -1099,7 +1110,7 @@ task_delayacct
===============
Enables/disables task delay accounting (see
-:doc:`accounting/delay-accounting.rst`). Enabling this feature incurs
+Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst. Enabling this feature incurs
a small amount of overhead in the scheduler but is useful for debugging
and performance tuning. It is required by some tools such as iotop.