[PATCH 02/12] selinux: tag avc cache alloc as non-critical

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Thu May 17 2012 - 10:56:14 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/selinux/avc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c
index 8ee42b2..75c2977 100644
--- a/security/selinux/avc.c
+++ b/security/selinux/avc.c
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ 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;

--
1.7.9.2

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