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@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ like cycles and instructions and some software events.
Other PMUs and global measurements are normally root only.
Some event qualifiers, such as "any", are also root only.
-This can be overriden by setting the kernel.perf_event_paranoid
+This can be overridden by setting the kernel.perf_event_paranoid
sysctl to -1, which allows non root to use these events.
For accessing trace point events perf needs to have read access to