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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2009-02-12 14:50:43 -0500
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2009-02-14 09:22:37 +1100
commit906d27d9d28fd50fb40026e56842d8f6806a7a04 (patch)
tree4f73e1396a09349a307f38b1de19767f558bedb1 /security/selinux
parenta5dda683328f99c781f92c66cc52ffc0639bef58 (diff)
downloadlinux-906d27d9d28fd50fb40026e56842d8f6806a7a04.tar.gz
SELinux: remove the unused ae.used
Currently SELinux code has an atomic which was intended to track how many
times an avc entry was used and to evict entries when they haven't been
used recently.  Instead we never let this atomic get above 1 and evict when
it is first checked for eviction since it hits zero.  This is a total waste
of time so I'm completely dropping ae.used.

This change resulted in about a 3% faster avc_has_perm_noaudit when running
oprofile against a tbench benchmark.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Reviewed by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/selinux')
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/avc.c28
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c
index 0d00f4874f32..0afb990fdfa4 100644
--- a/security/selinux/avc.c
+++ b/security/selinux/avc.c
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ struct avc_entry {
 	u32			tsid;
 	u16			tclass;
 	struct av_decision	avd;
-	atomic_t		used;	/* used recently */
 };
 
 struct avc_node {
@@ -316,16 +315,13 @@ static inline int avc_reclaim_node(void)
 
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		list_for_each_entry(node, &avc_cache.slots[hvalue], list) {
-			if (atomic_dec_and_test(&node->ae.used)) {
-				/* Recently Unused */
-				avc_node_delete(node);
-				avc_cache_stats_incr(reclaims);
-				ecx++;
-				if (ecx >= AVC_CACHE_RECLAIM) {
-					rcu_read_unlock();
-					spin_unlock_irqrestore(&avc_cache.slots_lock[hvalue], flags);
-					goto out;
-				}
+			avc_node_delete(node);
+			avc_cache_stats_incr(reclaims);
+			ecx++;
+			if (ecx >= AVC_CACHE_RECLAIM) {
+				rcu_read_unlock();
+				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&avc_cache.slots_lock[hvalue], flags);
+				goto out;
 			}
 		}
 		rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -345,7 +341,6 @@ static struct avc_node *avc_alloc_node(void)
 
 	INIT_RCU_HEAD(&node->rhead);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&node->list);
-	atomic_set(&node->ae.used, 1);
 	avc_cache_stats_incr(allocations);
 
 	if (atomic_inc_return(&avc_cache.active_nodes) > avc_cache_threshold)
@@ -378,15 +373,6 @@ static inline struct avc_node *avc_search_node(u32 ssid, u32 tsid, u16 tclass)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (ret == NULL) {
-		/* cache miss */
-		goto out;
-	}
-
-	/* cache hit */
-	if (atomic_read(&ret->ae.used) != 1)
-		atomic_set(&ret->ae.used, 1);
-out:
 	return ret;
 }