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From: Mitchell Erblich on 13 Jul 2010 07:00

On Jul 13, 2010, at 3:19 AM, Xiaotian Feng wrote:

> From 6c3a91091b2910c23908a9f9953efcf3df14e522 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng(a)redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:02:41 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH 12/30] selinux: tag avc cache alloc as non-critical
>
> Failing to allocate a cache entry will only harm performance not correctness.
> Do not consume valuable reserve pages for something like that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman(a)suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng(a)redhat.com>
> ---
> security/selinux/avc.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c
> index 3662b0f..9029395 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/avc.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/avc.c
> @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static struct avc_node *avc_alloc_node(void)
> {
> struct avc_node *node;
>
> - node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC);
> + node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC);
> if (!node)
> goto out;
>
> --
> 1.7.1.1
>

Why not just replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_NOWAIT?

This would NOT consume the valuable last pages.

Mitchell Erblich
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From: Xiaotian Feng on 15 Jul 2010 08:00
On 07/13/2010 06:55 PM, Mitchell Erblich wrote:
>
> On Jul 13, 2010, at 3:19 AM, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
>
>> From 6c3a91091b2910c23908a9f9953efcf3df14e522 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Xiaotian Feng<dfeng(a)redhat.com>
>> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:02:41 +0800
>> Subject: [PATCH 12/30] selinux: tag avc cache alloc as non-critical
>>
>> Failing to allocate a cache entry will only harm performance not correctness.
>> Do not consume valuable reserve pages for something like that.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra<a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl>
>> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman<sjayaraman(a)suse.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng<dfeng(a)redhat.com>
>> ---
>> security/selinux/avc.c | 2 +-
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c
>> index 3662b0f..9029395 100644
>> --- a/security/selinux/avc.c
>> +++ b/security/selinux/avc.c
>> @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static struct avc_node *avc_alloc_node(void)
>> {
>> struct avc_node *node;
>>
>> - node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC);
>> + node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC);
>> if (!node)
>> goto out;
>>
>> --
>> 1.7.1.1
>>
>
> Why not just replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_NOWAIT?
>
> This would NOT consume the valuable last pages.

But replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_NOWAIT can not prevent avc_alloc_node
consume reserved pages.

>
> Mitchell Erblich
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