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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-06-10 07:51:30 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-06-10 20:21:46 -0700
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vfs: make the string hashes salt the hash
We always mixed in the parent pointer into the dentry name hash, but we did it late at lookup time. It turns out that we can simplify that lookup-time action by salting the hash with the parent pointer early instead of late. A few other users of our string hashes also wanted to mix in their own pointers into the hash, and those are updated to use the same mechanism. Hash users that don't have any particular initial salt can just use the NULL pointer as a no-salt. Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Cc: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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