Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] trace-filter: Change the hashing function used when filtering

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:22:59 +0300
"Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)" <y.karadz@gmail.com> wrote:

> The hashing function used in trace-filter-hash is changed.
> The new hashing functions is based on the Donald E. Knuth's
> Multiplicative hashing, suggested in his book "The Art of
> Computer Programming". This improves the performance, but
> also removes the restrictions resulting  from using the
> Paul Hsieh's super fast hash, published under the terms of
> the GPL 2.0 license.
> 
> Paul Hsieh's hash function, defined in trace-hash-local.h,
> is still used in trace-graph.c, trace-plot.c, trace-plot-cpu.c
> and trace-plot-task.c. Because trace-hash-local.h is no longer
> included in trace-filter-hash.h, it has to be included
> explicitly in these four source files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yordan Karadzhov (VMware) <y.karadz@gmail.com>
> ---

I've applied these but haven't pushed them out yet. Which files need to
be changed from GPL to LGPL? Now that we have removed the GPL code from
the filter hash.

-- Steve