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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>2018-06-18 05:52:50 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-06-22 07:43:27 +0300
commit9f9a707738aa7a8b9f78a641b83927ada256a626 (patch)
treebc5635cd713869c628fd43e18f7334bbb6bb6aeb /lib/rhashtable.c
parent0eb71a9da5796851fa87ddc1a534066c0fe54055 (diff)
downloadlinux-9f9a707738aa7a8b9f78a641b83927ada256a626.tar.xz
rhashtable: remove nulls_base and related code.
This "feature" is unused, undocumented, and untested and so doesn't really belong. A patch is under development to properly implement support for detecting when a search gets diverted down a different chain, which the common purpose of nulls markers. This patch actually fixes a bug too. The table resizing allows a table to grow to 2^31 buckets, but the hash is truncated to 27 bits - any growth beyond 2^27 is wasteful an ineffective. This patch results in NULLS_MARKER(0) being used for all chains, and leaves the use of rht_is_a_null() to test for it. Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/rhashtable.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/rhashtable.c8
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index c9fafea7dc6e..688693c919be 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -995,7 +995,6 @@ static u32 rhashtable_jhash2(const void *key, u32 length, u32 seed)
* .key_offset = offsetof(struct test_obj, key),
* .key_len = sizeof(int),
* .hashfn = jhash,
- * .nulls_base = (1U << RHT_BASE_SHIFT),
* };
*
* Configuration Example 2: Variable length keys
@@ -1029,9 +1028,6 @@ int rhashtable_init(struct rhashtable *ht,
(params->obj_hashfn && !params->obj_cmpfn))
return -EINVAL;
- if (params->nulls_base && params->nulls_base < (1U << RHT_BASE_SHIFT))
- return -EINVAL;
-
memset(ht, 0, sizeof(*ht));
mutex_init(&ht->mutex);
spin_lock_init(&ht->lock);
@@ -1096,10 +1092,6 @@ int rhltable_init(struct rhltable *hlt, const struct rhashtable_params *params)
{
int err;
- /* No rhlist NULLs marking for now. */
- if (params->nulls_base)
- return -EINVAL;
-
err = rhashtable_init(&hlt->ht, params);
hlt->ht.rhlist = true;
return err;