From: Xiaotian Feng Subject: Re: [PATCH -mmotm 12/30] selinux: tag avc cache alloc as non-critical Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:51:32 +0800 Message-ID: <4C3EF644.1070505@redhat.com> References: <20100713101650.2835.15245.sendpatchset@danny.redhat> <20100713101906.2835.83443.sendpatchset@danny.redhat> <6E38A74E-B033-4D2A-9620-2A8BDF9E0AD1@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, riel@redhat.com, cl@linux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lwang@redhat.com, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, akpm@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net To: Mitchell Erblich Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6E38A74E-B033-4D2A-9620-2A8BDF9E0AD1@earthlink.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 >> 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 >> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman >> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng >> --- >> 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 >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org