libbpf: Extract generic string hashing function for reuse

Calculating a hash of zero-terminated string is a common need when using
hashmap, so extract it for reuse.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200926011357.2366158-5-andriin@fb.com

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/hashmap.h b/tools/lib/bpf/hashmap.h
index e0af36b0e5d8..d9b385fe808c 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/hashmap.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/hashmap.h
@@ -25,6 +25,18 @@ static inline size_t hash_bits(size_t h, int bits)
 #endif
 }
 
+/* generic C-string hashing function */
+static inline size_t str_hash(const char *s)
+{
+	size_t h = 0;
+
+	while (*s) {
+		h = h * 31 + *s;
+		s++;
+	}
+	return h;
+}
+
 typedef size_t (*hashmap_hash_fn)(const void *key, void *ctx);
 typedef bool (*hashmap_equal_fn)(const void *key1, const void *key2, void *ctx);