From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:36:29 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Merge branch 'access-creds'
X-Git-Tag: v5.4-rc1~466
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a29a0a467e2c02fe4287c2d4eff86c9eb6beff0c;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-rpi.git

Merge branch 'access-creds'

The access() (and faccessat()) credentials change can cause an
unnecessary load on the RCU machinery because every access() call ends
up freeing the temporary access credential using RCU.

This isn't really noticeable on small machines, but if you have hundreds
of cores you can cause huge slowdowns due to RCU storms.

It's easy to avoid: the temporary access crededntials aren't actually
normally accessed using RCU at all, so we can avoid the whole issue by
just marking them as such.

* access-creds:
  access: avoid the RCU grace period for the temporary subjective credentials
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