linux-kernel - Re: [4/5] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions

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Date:	Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:51:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>,
	Gregor Jasny <gjasny@...glemail.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Simon <sg02r@....soton.ac.uk>,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [4/5] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote:

> SELinux
> 
> Subject    : very high non-preempt latency in context_struct_compute_av()
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/4/78
> Submitter  : Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Handled-By : Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
>             James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
> Status     : unknown

Not sure what the criteria are for being listed as a regression, but this 
problem was likely introduced many moons ago with changes which reduced 
the memory footprint of security policy.


-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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