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>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 32 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rhashtable-types.h b/include/linux/rhashtable-types.h
index 9740063ff13b..763d613ce2c2 100644
--- a/include/linux/rhashtable-types.h
+++ b/include/linux/rhashtable-types.h
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ typedef int (*rht_obj_cmpfn_t)(struct rhashtable_compare_arg *arg,
  * @min_size: Minimum size while shrinking
  * @locks_mul: Number of bucket locks to allocate per cpu (default: 32)
  * @automatic_shrinking: Enable automatic shrinking of tables
- * @nulls_base: Base value to generate nulls marker
  * @hashfn: Hash function (default: jhash2 if !(key_len % 4), or jhash)
  * @obj_hashfn: Function to hash object
  * @obj_cmpfn: Function to compare key with object
@@ -64,7 +63,6 @@ struct rhashtable_params {
 	u16			min_size;
 	bool			automatic_shrinking;
 	u8			locks_mul;
-	u32			nulls_base;
 	rht_hashfn_t		hashfn;
 	rht_obj_hashfn_t	obj_hashfn;
 	rht_obj_cmpfn_t		obj_cmpfn;
diff --git a/include/linux/rhashtable.h b/include/linux/rhashtable.h
index 48754ab07cdf..d9f719af7936 100644
--- a/include/linux/rhashtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/rhashtable.h
@@ -28,25 +28,8 @@
 #include <linux/rhashtable-types.h>
 /*
  * The end of the chain is marked with a special nulls marks which has
- * the following format:
- *
- * +-------+-----------------------------------------------------+-+
- * | Base  |                      Hash                           |1|
- * +-------+-----------------------------------------------------+-+
- *
- * Base (4 bits) : Reserved to distinguish between multiple tables.
- *                 Specified via &struct rhashtable_params.nulls_base.
- * Hash (27 bits): Full hash (unmasked) of first element added to bucket
- * 1 (1 bit)     : Nulls marker (always set)
- *
- * The remaining bits of the next pointer remain unused for now.
+ * the least significant bit set.
  */
-#define RHT_BASE_BITS		4
-#define RHT_HASH_BITS		27
-#define RHT_BASE_SHIFT		RHT_HASH_BITS
-
-/* Base bits plus 1 bit for nulls marker */
-#define RHT_HASH_RESERVED_SPACE	(RHT_BASE_BITS + 1)
 
 /* Maximum chain length before rehash
  *
@@ -92,24 +75,14 @@ struct bucket_table {
 	struct rhash_head __rcu *buckets[] ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 };
 
-static inline unsigned long rht_marker(const struct rhashtable *ht, u32 hash)
-{
-	return NULLS_MARKER(ht->p.nulls_base + hash);
-}
-
 #define INIT_RHT_NULLS_HEAD(ptr, ht, hash) \
-	((ptr) = (typeof(ptr)) rht_marker(ht, hash))
+	((ptr) = (typeof(ptr)) NULLS_MARKER(0))
 
 static inline bool rht_is_a_nulls(const struct rhash_head *ptr)
 {
 	return ((unsigned long) ptr & 1);
 }
 
-static inline unsigned long rht_get_nulls_value(const struct rhash_head *ptr)
-{
-	return ((unsigned long) ptr) >> 1;
-}
-
 static inline void *rht_obj(const struct rhashtable *ht,
 			    const struct rhash_head *he)
 {
@@ -119,7 +92,7 @@ static inline void *rht_obj(const struct rhashtable *ht,
 static inline unsigned int rht_bucket_index(const struct bucket_table *tbl,
 					    unsigned int hash)
 {
-	return (hash >> RHT_HASH_RESERVED_SPACE) & (tbl->size - 1);
+	return hash & (tbl->size - 1);
 }
 
 static inline unsigned int rht_key_get_hash(struct rhashtable *ht,