linux/security
Ondrej Mosnacek e0de8a9aeb selinux: mark selinux_xfrm_refcount as __read_mostly
This is motivated by a perfomance regression of selinux_xfrm_enabled()
that happened on a RHEL kernel due to false sharing between
selinux_xfrm_refcount and (the late) selinux_ss.policy_rwlock (i.e. the
.bss section memory layout changed such that they happened to share the
same cacheline). Since the policy rwlock's memory region was modified
upon each read-side critical section, the readers of
selinux_xfrm_refcount had frequent cache misses, eventually leading to a
significant performance degradation under a TCP SYN flood on a system
with many cores (32 in this case, but it's detectable on less cores as
well).

While upstream has since switched to RCU locking, so the same can no
longer happen here, selinux_xfrm_refcount could still share a cacheline
with another frequently written region, thus marking it __read_mostly
still makes sense. __read_mostly helps, because it will put the symbol
in a separate section along with other read-mostly variables, so there
should never be a clash with frequently written data.

Since selinux_xfrm_refcount is modified only in case of an explicit
action, it should be safe to do this (i.e. it shouldn't disrupt other
read-mostly variables too much).

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2021-01-12 10:12:58 -05:00
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apparmor apparmor: remove duplicate macro list_entry_is_head() 2020-12-15 22:46:19 -08:00
bpf bpf: Implement task local storage 2020-11-06 08:08:37 -08:00
integrity EFI updates collected by Ard Biesheuvel: 2020-12-24 12:40:07 -08:00
keys Networking updates for 5.11 2020-12-15 13:22:29 -08:00
loadpin LSM: Add "contents" flag to kernel_read_file hook 2020-10-05 13:37:03 +02:00
lockdown Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2020-06-02 17:36:24 -07:00
safesetid LSM: SafeSetID: Fix warnings reported by test bot 2020-10-13 09:17:36 -07:00
selinux selinux: mark selinux_xfrm_refcount as __read_mostly 2021-01-12 10:12:58 -05:00
smack Provide a fix for the incorrect handling of privilege 2020-12-24 14:08:43 -08:00
tomoyo tomoyo: Fix typo in comments. 2020-12-06 13:44:57 +09:00
yama task_work: cleanup notification modes 2020-10-17 15:05:30 -06:00
commoncap.c vfs: move cap_convert_nscap() call into vfs_setxattr() 2020-12-14 15:26:13 +01:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: Fix RCU list debugging warning 2020-08-20 11:25:03 -07:00
inode.c Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
Kconfig Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: security 2020-08-06 12:00:05 -07:00
Kconfig.hardening security: allow using Clang's zero initialization for stack variables 2020-06-16 02:06:23 -07:00
lsm_audit.c audit/stable-5.11 PR 20201214 2020-12-16 10:54:03 -08:00
Makefile device_cgroup: Cleanup cgroup eBPF device filter code 2020-04-13 14:41:54 -04:00
min_addr.c sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
security.c selinux/stable-5.11 PR 20201214 2020-12-16 11:01:04 -08:00