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Commit 1a5b472b authored by Rohit's avatar Rohit Committed by Casey Schaufler
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Security: smack: replace kzalloc with kmem_cache for inode_smack



The patch use kmem_cache to allocate/free inode_smack since they are
alloced in high volumes making it a perfect case for kmem_cache.

As per analysis, 24 bytes of memory is wasted per allocation due
to internal fragmentation. With kmem_cache, this can be avoided.

Accounting of memory allocation is below :
 total       slack            net      count-alloc/free        caller
Before (with kzalloc)
1919872      719952          1919872      29998/0          new_inode_smack+0x14

After (with kmem_cache)
1201680          0           1201680      30042/0          new_inode_smack+0x18

>From above data, we found that 719952 bytes(~700 KB) of memory is
saved on allocation of 29998 smack inodes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRohit <rohit.kr@samsung.com>
parent 6c892df2
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