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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-19 18:59:47 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-19 18:59:47 -0700
commit044aea9b83614948c98564000db07d1d32b2d29b (patch)
treeb1f13ed2f4bb0bd40f7915a89aafaf449b6145cd /security/selinux
parent39ab05c8e0b519ff0a04a869f065746e6e8c3d95 (diff)
downloadlinux-044aea9b83614948c98564000db07d1d32b2d29b.tar.gz
selinux: de-crapify avc cache stat code generation
You can turn off the avc cache stats, but distributions seem to not do
that (perhaps because several performance tuning how-to's talk about the
avc cache statistics).

Which is sad, because the code it generates is truly horrendous, with
the statistics update being sandwitched between get_cpu/put_cpu which in
turn causes preemption disables etc.  We're talking ten+ instructions
just to increment a per-cpu variable in some pretty hot code.

Fix the craziness by just using 'this_cpu_inc()' instead.  Suddenly we
only need a single 'inc' instruction to increment the statistics.  This
is quite noticeable in the incredibly hot avc_has_perm_noaudit()
function (which triggers all the statistics by virtue of doing an
avc_lookup() call).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/selinux')
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/avc.c6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c
index 1d027e29ce8d..5971e30e8239 100644
--- a/security/selinux/avc.c
+++ b/security/selinux/avc.c
@@ -38,11 +38,7 @@
 #define AVC_CACHE_RECLAIM		16
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_AVC_STATS
-#define avc_cache_stats_incr(field)				\
-do {								\
-	per_cpu(avc_cache_stats, get_cpu()).field++;		\
-	put_cpu();						\
-} while (0)
+#define avc_cache_stats_incr(field)	this_cpu_inc(avc_cache_stats.field)
 #else
 #define avc_cache_stats_incr(field)	do {} while (0)
 #endif