ERR_NVGPUCTRPERM: Permission issue with Performance Counters

What happened

nv-nsight-cu and nv-nsight-cu-cli said 
ERR_NVGPUCTRPERM: Permission issue with Performance Counters

==ERROR== The application returned an error code (6)
==WARNING== No kernels were profiled
==WARNING== Profiling kernels launched by child processes requires the --target-processes all option

Environment

uname -a
Linux shiki.momo86.net 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 18 16:35:19 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
cat /etc/os-release
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="7 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="7"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:7"
HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/"

CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT="CentOS-7"
CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="7"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="centos"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="7"
nvcc --version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2019 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Wed_Apr_24_19:10:27_PDT_2019
Cuda compilation tools, release 10.1, V10.1.168

The error does not occur with sudo execution.

solution

  1. Create a module config file 
    echo 'options nvidia "NVreg_RestrictProfilingToAdminUsers=0"' > /etc/modprobe.d/nsight-privilege.conf
  2. Reboot
Date:2019-07-13