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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/test_rhashtable.c b/lib/test_rhashtable.c
index 6ca59ffcacbe..82ac39ce5310 100644
--- a/lib/test_rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/test_rhashtable.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static u32 my_hashfn(const void *data, u32 len, u32 seed)
 {
 	const struct test_obj_rhl *obj = data;
 
-	return (obj->value.id % 10) << RHT_HASH_RESERVED_SPACE;
+	return (obj->value.id % 10);
 }
 
 static int my_cmpfn(struct rhashtable_compare_arg *arg, const void *obj)
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ static struct rhashtable_params test_rht_params = {
 	.key_offset = offsetof(struct test_obj, value),
 	.key_len = sizeof(struct test_obj_val),
 	.hashfn = jhash,
-	.nulls_base = (3U << RHT_BASE_SHIFT),
 };
 
 static struct rhashtable_params test_rht_params_dup = {
@@ -296,8 +295,6 @@ static int __init test_rhltable(unsigned int entries)
 	if (!obj_in_table)
 		goto out_free;
 
-	/* nulls_base not supported in rhlist interface */
-	test_rht_params.nulls_base = 0;
 	err = rhltable_init(&rhlt, &test_rht_params);
 	if (WARN_ON(err))
 		goto out_free;