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Linus Torvalds 7e0fb73c52 Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 
Pull string hash improvements from George Spelvin:
 "This series does several related things:

   - Makes the dcache hash (fs/namei.c) useful for general kernel use.

     (Thanks to Bruce for noticing the zero-length corner case)

   - Converts the string hashes in <linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h> to use the
     above.

   - Avoids 64-bit multiplies in hash_64() on 32-bit platforms.  Two
     32-bit multiplies will do well enough.

   - Rids the world of the bad hash multipliers in hash_32.

     This finishes the job started in commit 689de1d6ca ("Minimal
     fix-up of bad hashing behavior of hash_64()")

     The vast majority of Linux architectures have hardware support for
     32x32-bit multiply and so derive no benefit from "simplified"
     multipliers.

     The few processors that do not (68000, h8/300 and some models of
     Microblaze) have arch-specific implementations added.  Those
     patches are last in the series.

   - Overhauls the dcache hash mixing.

     The patch in commit 0fed3ac866 ("namei: Improve hash mixing if
     CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS") was an off-the-cuff suggestion.
     Replaced with a much more careful design that's simultaneously
     faster and better.  (My own invention, as there was noting suitable
     in the literature I could find.  Comments welcome!)

   - Modify the hash_name() loop to skip the initial HASH_MIX().  This
     would let us salt the hash if we ever wanted to.

   - Sort out partial_name_hash().

     The hash function is declared as using a long state, even though
     it's truncated to 32 bits at the end and the extra internal state
     contributes nothing to the result.  And some callers do odd things:

      - fs/hfs/string.c only allocates 32 bits of state
      - fs/hfsplus/unicode.c uses it to hash 16-bit unicode symbols not bytes

   - Modify bytemask_from_count to handle inputs of 1..sizeof(long)
     rather than 0..sizeof(long)-1.  This would simplify users other
     than full_name_hash"

  Special thanks to Bruce Fields for testing and finding bugs in v1.  (I
  learned some humbling lessons about "obviously correct" code.)

  On the arch-specific front, the m68k assembly has been tested in a
  standalone test harness, I've been in contact with the Microblaze
  maintainers who mostly don't care, as the hardware multiplier is never
  omitted in real-world applications, and I haven't heard anything from
  the H8/300 world"

* 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux:
  h8300: Add <asm/hash.h>
  microblaze: Add <asm/hash.h>
  m68k: Add <asm/hash.h>
  <linux/hash.h>: Add support for architecture-specific functions
  fs/namei.c: Improve dcache hash function
  Eliminate bad hash multipliers from hash_32() and  hash_64()
  Change hash_64() return value to 32 bits
  <linux/sunrpc/svcauth.h>: Define hash_str() in terms of hashlen_string()
  fs/namei.c: Add hashlen_string() function
  Pull out string hash to <linux/stringhash.h>
2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
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acpi libnvdimm for 4.7 2016-05-23 11:18:01 -07:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:11:43 -07:00
clocksource
crypto
drm Merge tag 'drm-intel-next-fixes-2016-05-25' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel into drm-next 2016-05-27 16:08:38 +10:00
dt-bindings Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2016-05-26 09:23:43 -07:00
keys
kvm KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-new: implement mapped IRQ handling 2016-05-20 15:40:09 +02:00
linux Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
math-emu
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net net: sock: move ->sk_shutdown out of bitfields. 2016-05-20 18:05:32 -04:00
pcmcia
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rdma IB/core: Make device counter infrastructure dynamic 2016-05-26 12:52:51 -04:00
rxrpc
scsi
soc
sound
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2016-05-28 12:04:17 -07:00
trace - move kvm_stat tool from QEMU repo into tools/kvm/kvm_stat 2016-05-27 13:41:54 -07:00
uapi sound updates #2 for 4.7-rc1 2016-05-28 12:23:12 -07:00
video imx-drm probing fix 2016-05-25 12:36:20 +10:00
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