From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SELinux:  Reduce max avtab size to avoid page
 allocation failures
From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>,
        selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:23:23 -0400
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On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 10:42 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> Reduce MAX_AVTAB_HASH_BITS so that the avtab allocation is an order 2
> allocation rather than an order 4 allocation on x86_64.  This
> addresses reports of page allocation failures:
> http://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=126757230625867&w=2
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570433
> 
> Reported-by:  Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
> Signed-off-by:  Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>

Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

although if I get a coulpe of minutes I might look at using
lib/flex_array.c for this....

-Eric


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