Re: [PATCH 05/11] selinux: use dlist for isec inode list

[Paul Moore]

On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 1:07 AM Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Because it's a horrible point of lock contention under heavily
> concurrent directory traversals...
>
>   - 12.14% d_instantiate
>      - 12.06% security_d_instantiate
>         - 12.13% selinux_d_instantiate
>            - 12.16% inode_doinit_with_dentry
>               - 15.45% _raw_spin_lock
>                  - do_raw_spin_lock
>                       14.68% __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/dlock-list.h        |  9 ++++
>  security/selinux/hooks.c          | 72 +++++++++++++++----------------
>  security/selinux/include/objsec.h |  6 +--
>  3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

In the cover letter you talk about testing, but I didn't see any
mention of testing with SELinux enabled.  Given the lock contention
stats in the description above I'm going to assume you did test this
and pass along my ACK, but if you haven't tested the changes below
please do before sending this anywhere important.

Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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