<linux/stringhash.h>: fix end_name_hash() for 64bit long

19b9ad67 · Amir Goldstein <[email protected]> · 2018-02-05 19:32:18 +02:00

The comment claims that this helper will try not to loose bits, but for
64bit long it looses the high bits before hashing 64bit long into 32bit
int.  Use the helper hash_long() to do the right thing for 64bit long.
For 32bit long, there is no change.

All the callers of end_name_hash() either assign the result to
qstr->hash, which is u32 or return the result as an int value (e.g.
full_name_hash()).  Change the helper return type to int to conform to
its users.

[ It took me a while to apply this, because my initial reaction to it
  was - incorrectly - that it could make for slower code.

  After having looked more at it, I take back all my complaints about
  the patch, Amir was right and I was mis-reading things or just being
  stupid.

  I also don't worry too much about the possible performance impact of
  this on 64-bit, since most architectures that actually care about
  performance end up not using this very much (the dcache code is the
  most performance-critical, but the word-at-a-time case uses its own
  hashing anyway).

  So this ends up being mostly used for filesystems that do their own
  degraded hashing (usually because they want a case-insensitive
  comparison function).

  A _tiny_ worry remains, in that not everybody uses DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS,
  and then this potentially makes things more expensive on 64-bit
  architectures with slow or lacking multipliers even for the normal
  case.

  That said, realistically the only such architecture I can think of is
  PA-RISC. Nobody really cares about performance on that, it's more of a
  "look ma, I've got warts^W an odd machine" platform.

  So the patch is fine, and all my initial worries were just misplaced
  from not looking at this properly.   - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Commit: 19b9ad67310ed2f685062a00aec602bec33835f0
Parents: bf8f5de1

Changes

1 files changed · +2 −2

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include/linux/stringhash.h

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diff --git a/include/linux/stringhash.h b/include/linux/stringhash.h
index e8f0f85..c0c5c5b 100644
--- a/include/linux/stringhash.h
+++ b/include/linux/stringhash.h
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ partial_name_hash(unsigned long c, unsigned long prevhash)
  * losing bits).  This also has the property (wanted by the dcache)
  * that the msbits make a good hash table index.
  */
-static inline unsigned long end_name_hash(unsigned long hash)
+static inline unsigned int end_name_hash(unsigned long hash)
 {
-	return __hash_32((unsigned int)hash);
+	return hash_long(hash, 32);
 }
 
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