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| author | Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com> | 2025-10-31 09:33:28 -0300 |
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| committer | Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> | 2025-11-07 16:50:42 -0500 |
| commit | c8a3dfe7315945ebcc80ed5be8267920b609649a (patch) | |
| tree | e20b47be482a833730e6a0f9d2f269d3730cd80c /tools/docs/parse-headers.py | |
| parent | 77563f3d4704206c8f6626852365591aa4e0b779 (diff) | |
audit: merge loops in __audit_inode_child()
Whenever there's audit context, __audit_inode_child() gets called
numerous times, which can lead to high latency in scenarios that
create too many sysfs/debugfs entries at once, for instance, upon
device_add_disk() invocation.
# uname -r
6.18.0-rc2+
# auditctl -a always,exit -F path=/tmp -k foo
# time insmod loop max_loop=1000
real 0m46.676s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m46.405s
# perf record -a insmod loop max_loop=1000
# perf report --stdio |grep __audit_inode_child
32.73% insmod [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __audit_inode_child
__audit_inode_child() searches for both the parent and the child
in two different loops that iterate over the same list. This
process can be optimized by merging these into a single loop,
without changing the function behavior or affecting the code's
readability.
This patch merges the two loops that walk through the list
context->names_list into a single loop. This optimization resulted
in around 51% performance enhancement for the benchmark.
# uname -r
6.18.0-rc2-enhancedv3+
# auditctl -a always,exit -F path=/tmp -k foo
# time insmod loop max_loop=1000
real 0m22.899s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m22.652s
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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