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e the multiplicative value used for the 64-bit hash was intentionally bit-sparse (so that the multiply could be done with shifts and adds on architectures without hardware multipliers), some bits did not get spread out very much. In particular, certain fairly common bit ranges in the input (roughly bits 12-20: commonly with the most information in them when you hash things like byte offsets in files or memory that have block factors that mean that the low bits are often zero) would not necessarily show up much in the result. There's a bigger patch-series brewing to fix up things more completely, but this is the fairly minimal fix for the 64-bit hashing problem. It simply picks a much better constant multiplier, spreading the bits out a lot better. NOTE! For 32-bit architectures, the bad old hash_64() remains the same for now, since 64-bit multiplies are expensive. The bigger hashing cleanup will replace the 32-bit case with something better. The new constants were picked by George Spelvin who wrote that bigger cleanup series. I just picked out the constants and part of the comment from that series. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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