Re: [RFC v3 1/7] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable

This hashtable implementation is using hlist buckets to provide a simple
hashtable to prevent it from getting reimplemented all over the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
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+/*
+ * Hash table implementation
+ * (C) 2012  Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_HASHTABLE_H
+#define _LINUX_HASHTABLE_H
+
+#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/hash.h>
+
+#define DEFINE_HASHTABLE(name, bits)					\
+	struct hlist_head name[HASH_SIZE(bits)];
+
+#define HASH_SIZE(bits) (1 << (bits))
+
+/* Use hash_32 when possible to allow for fast 32bit hashing in 64bit kernels. */
+#define hash_min(val, bits) ((sizeof(val)==4)?hash_32((val), (bits)):hash_long((val), (bits)))
+
+/**
+ * hash_init - initialize a hash table
+ * @hashtable: hashtable to be initialized
+ * @bits: bit count of hashing function
+ *
+ * Initializes a hash table with 2**bits buckets.
+ */
+static inline void hash_init(struct hlist_head *hashtable, int bits)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < HASH_SIZE(bits); i++)
+		INIT_HLIST_HEAD(hashtable + i);
+}
+
+/**
+ * hash_add - add an object to a hashtable
+ * @hashtable: hashtable to add to
+ * @bits: bit count used for hashing
+ * @node: the &struct hlist_node of the object to be added
+ * @key: the key of the object to be added
+ */
+#define hash_add(hashtable, bits, node, key)				\
+	hlist_add_head(node, &hashtable[hash_min(key, bits)]);
+
+/**
+ * hash_del - remove an object from a hashtable
+ * @node: &struct hlist_node of the object to remove
+ */
+static inline void hash_del(struct hlist_node *node)
+{
+	hlist_del_init(node);
+}
+
+/**
+ * hash_for_each - iterate over a hashtable
+ * @name: hashtable to iterate
+ * @bits: bit count of hashing function of the hashtable
+ * @bkt: integer to use as bucket loop cursor
+ * @node: the &struct list_head to use as a loop cursor for each bucket
+ * @obj: the type * to use as a loop cursor for each bucket
+ * @member: the name of the hlist_node within the struct
+ */
+#define hash_for_each(name, bits, bkt, node, obj, member)		\
+	for (bkt = 0; bkt < HASH_SIZE(bits); bkt++)			\
+		hlist_for_each_entry(obj, node, &name[i], member)