Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Replace security fields with hashtable

From: Serge E. Hallyn (serue@private)
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 06:15:26 PDT 

> Rewriting SELinux to use whatever approach you devise would be a better
> test, as it will exercise your methods from every hook and likely give
> you a better sense as to both the correctness and performance overhead
> of your approach.
> 
> Plain spin_locks are not safe here, as your methods can be called from
> hard irq or soft irq from certain hooks, and this will happen with
> SELinux.  Locking overhead is going to kill you here.

I will start an RCU version and port SELinux to use the hashtable.

thanks,
-serge

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