[PATCH 12/30] selinux: tag avc cache alloc as non-critical

From: Xiaotian Feng
Date: Mon Jul 12 2010 - 23:02:41 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: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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

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