linux/security/apparmor
Vinicius Costa Gomes 2516fde1fa apparmor: Optimize retrieving current task secid
When running will-it-scale[1] open2_process testcase, in a system with a
large number of cores, a bottleneck in retrieving the current task
secid was detected:

27.73% ima_file_check;do_open (inlined);path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_x64 (inlined);do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (inlined);__libc_open64 (inlined)
    27.72%     0.01%  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] security_current_getsecid_subj             -      -
27.71% security_current_getsecid_subj;ima_file_check;do_open (inlined);path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_x64 (inlined);do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (inlined);__libc_open64 (inlined)
    27.71%    27.68%  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] apparmor_current_getsecid_subj             -      -
19.94% __refcount_add (inlined);__refcount_inc (inlined);refcount_inc (inlined);kref_get (inlined);aa_get_label (inlined);aa_get_label (inlined);aa_get_current_label (inlined);apparmor_current_getsecid_subj;security_current_getsecid_subj;ima_file_check;do_open (inlined);path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_x64 (inlined);do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (inlined);__libc_open64 (inlined)
7.72% __refcount_sub_and_test (inlined);__refcount_dec_and_test (inlined);refcount_dec_and_test (inlined);kref_put (inlined);aa_put_label (inlined);aa_put_label (inlined);apparmor_current_getsecid_subj;security_current_getsecid_subj;ima_file_check;do_open (inlined);path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_x64 (inlined);do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (inlined);__libc_open64 (inlined)

A large amount of time was spent in the refcount.

The most common case is that the current task label is available, and
no need to take references for that one. That is exactly what the
critical section helpers do, make use of them.

New perf output:

39.12% vfs_open;path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe;__libc_open64 (inlined)
    39.07%     0.13%  [kernel.vmlinux]          [k] do_dentry_open                                                               -      -
39.05% do_dentry_open;vfs_open;path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe;__libc_open64 (inlined)
    38.71%     0.01%  [kernel.vmlinux]          [k] security_file_open                                                           -      -
38.70% security_file_open;do_dentry_open;vfs_open;path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe;__libc_open64 (inlined)
    38.65%    38.60%  [kernel.vmlinux]          [k] apparmor_file_open                                                           -      -
38.65% apparmor_file_open;security_file_open;do_dentry_open;vfs_open;path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe;__libc_open64 (inlined)

The result is a throughput improvement of around 20% across the board
on the open2 testcase. On more realistic workloads the impact should
be much less.

[1] https://github.com/antonblanchard/will-it-scale

Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2023-10-15 21:44:31 -07:00
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include apparmor: remove unused functions in policy_ns.c/.h 2023-10-15 21:44:31 -07:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
apparmorfs.c apparmor: remove unneeded #ifdef in decompress_zstd() 2023-10-15 21:44:31 -07:00
audit.c apparmor: Fix kernel-doc warnings in apparmor/audit.c 2023-07-10 01:05:25 -07:00
capability.c apparmor: Fix kernel-doc warnings in apparmor/capability.c 2023-07-10 01:05:41 -07:00
crypto.c apparmor: Return directly after a failed kzalloc() in two functions 2023-07-06 10:58:49 -07:00
domain.c apparmor: Fix kernel-doc warnings in apparmor/domain.c 2023-07-10 01:06:04 -07:00
file.c apparmor: Fix kernel-doc warnings in apparmor/file.c 2023-07-10 01:07:54 -07:00
ipc.c AppArmor: Fix kernel-doc 2022-10-25 00:15:18 -07:00
Kconfig + Features 2022-12-14 13:42:09 -08:00
label.c apparmor: fixup return comments for kernel doc cleanups by Gaosheng Cui 2023-08-08 13:12:19 -07:00
lib.c apparmor: Fix kernel-doc warnings in apparmor/lib.c 2023-07-10 01:13:52 -07:00
lsm.c apparmor: Optimize retrieving current task secid 2023-10-15 21:44:31 -07:00
Makefile + Features 2022-12-14 13:42:09 -08:00
match.c apparmor: Fix kernel-doc warnings in apparmor/match.c 2023-07-10 01:14:51 -07:00
mount.c apparmor: rework profile->rules to be a list 2022-10-03 14:49:04 -07:00
net.c apparmor: rework profile->rules to be a list 2022-10-03 14:49:04 -07:00
nulldfa.in apparmor: cleanup add proper line wrapping to nulldfa.in 2018-02-09 11:30:01 -08:00
path.c security: apparmor: delete repeated words in comments 2021-02-07 04:15:46 -08:00
policy_compat.c apparmor: fixup return comments for kernel doc cleanups by Gaosheng Cui 2023-08-08 13:12:19 -07:00
policy_ns.c apparmor: remove unused functions in policy_ns.c/.h 2023-10-15 21:44:31 -07:00
policy_unpack_test.c apparmor: fix use of strcpy in policy_unpack_test 2023-07-06 10:58:49 -07:00
policy_unpack.c apparmor: fix invalid reference on profile->disconnected 2023-08-22 12:16:54 -07:00
policy.c apparmor: fix invalid reference on profile->disconnected 2023-08-22 12:16:54 -07:00
procattr.c apparmor: fix obsoleted comments for aa_getprocattr() and audit_resource() 2022-10-24 22:35:23 -07:00
resource.c apparmor: Fix kernel-doc warnings in apparmor/resource.c 2023-07-10 01:15:17 -07:00
secid.c apparmor: fix kernel-doc complaints 2023-01-10 10:04:35 -08:00
stacksplitdfa.in apparmor: use the dfa to do label parse string splitting 2018-02-09 11:30:01 -08:00
task.c apparmor: make aa_set_current_onexec return void 2023-07-09 17:30:51 -07:00