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selinux: Introduce a new config to make avc cache slot size adjustable
authorHongru Zhang <zhanghongru@xiaomi.com>
Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:29:19 +0000 (19:29 +0800)
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:24:30 +0000 (18:24 -0400)
commit641e0217586193bbd6dbc16ae73d0c9ecda535f1
tree8d1dd7af3c7d860a22b8404516a413e74c1c94e2
parent094e94d13b606b820e3d1383e3a361f680ff023a
selinux: Introduce a new config to make avc cache slot size adjustable

On mobile device high-load situations, permission check can happen
more than 90,000/s (8 core system). With default 512 cache nodes
configuration, avc cache miss happens more often and occasionally
leads to long time (>2ms) irqs off on both big and little cores,
which decreases system real-time capability.

An actual call stack is as follows:
 => avc_compute_av
 => avc_perm_nonode
 => avc_has_perm_noaudit
 => selinux_capable
 => security_capable
 => capable
 => __sched_setscheduler
 => do_sched_setscheduler
 => __arm64_sys_sched_setscheduler
 => invoke_syscall
 => el0_svc_common
 => do_el0_svc
 => el0_svc
 => el0t_64_sync_handler
 => el0t_64_sync

Although we can expand avc nodes through /sys/fs/selinux/cache_threshold
to mitigate long time irqs off, hash conflicts make the bucket average
length longer because of the fixed size of cache slots, leading to
avc_search_node() latency increase.

So introduce a new config to make avc cache slot size also configurable,
and with fine tuning, we can mitigate long time irqs off with slightly
avc_search_node() performance regression.

Theoretically, the main overhead is memory consumption.

Signed-off-by: Hongru Zhang <zhanghongru@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
security/selinux/Kconfig
security/selinux/avc.c