Re: [RFC patch 4/7] futex: Add support for attached futexes

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 11:09:18AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> +/**
> + * hash_local_futex - Return the hash bucket in the task local cache
> + * @uaddr:	The user space address of the futex
> + * @prime:	The prime number for the modulo operation
> + *
> + * That's a primitive hash function, but it turned out to be the most
> + * efficient one for the task local cache as we don't have anything to
> + * mix in like we have for the global hash.
> + */
> +static inline unsigned int
> +hash_local_futex(void __user *uaddr, unsigned int prime)
> +{
> +	return ((unsigned long) uaddr) % prime;
> +}

> +static unsigned int hash_prime(unsigned int size)
> +{
> +	switch(size) {
> +	case   16:
> +	default:   return 13;
> +	case   32: return 31;
> +	case   64: return 61;
> +	case  128: return 127;
> +	case  256: return 251;
> +	case  512: return 509;
> +	case 1024: return 1021;
> +	case 2048: return 2039;
> +	case 4096: return 4093;
> +	}
> +}

One wonders what's wrong with include/linux/hash.h ? It appears to me
hash_ptr() is pretty much what you want, no?