.\" .\" Copyright (c) 2004 Joseph Koshy .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' .\" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED .\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR .\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE .\" LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR .\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF .\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS .\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN .\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD: releng/10.1/share/man/man9/hashinit.9 235693 2012-05-20 16:43:47Z gjb $ .\" .Dd October 10, 2004 .Dt HASHINIT 9 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm hashinit , hashinit_flags , hashdestroy , phashinit .Nd manage kernel hash tables .Sh SYNOPSIS .In sys/malloc.h .In sys/systm.h .In sys/queue.h .Ft "void *" .Fn hashinit "int nelements" "struct malloc_type *type" "u_long *hashmask" .Ft void .Fo hashinit_flags .Fa "int nelements" "struct malloc_type *type" "u_long *hashmask" "int flags" .Fc .Ft void .Fn hashdestroy "void *hashtbl" "struct malloc_type *type" "u_long hashmask" .Ft "void *" .Fn phashinit "int nelements" "struct malloc_type *type" "u_long *nentries" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn hashinit , .Fn hashinit_flags and .Fn phashinit functions allocate space for hash tables of size given by the argument .Fa nelements . .Pp The .Fn hashinit function allocates hash tables that are sized to largest power of two less than or equal to argument .Fa nelements . The .Fn phashinit function allocates hash tables that are sized to the largest prime number less than or equal to argument .Fa nelements . The .Fn hashinit_flags function operates like .Fn hashinit but also accepts an additional argument .Fa flags which control various options during allocation. Allocated hash tables are contiguous arrays of .Xr LIST_HEAD 3 entries, allocated using .Xr malloc 9 , and initialized using .Xr LIST_INIT 3 . The malloc arena to be used for allocation is pointed to by argument .Fa type . .Pp The .Fn hashdestroy function frees the space occupied by the hash table pointed to by argument .Fa hashtbl . Argument .Fa type determines the malloc arena to use when freeing space. The argument .Fa hashmask should be the bit mask returned by the call to .Fn hashinit that allocated the hash table. The argument .Fa flags must be used with one of the following values. .Pp .Bl -tag -width ".Dv HASH_NOWAIT" -offset indent -compact .It Dv HASH_NOWAIT Any malloc performed by the .Fn hashinit_flags function will not be allowed to wait, and therefore may fail. .It Dv HASH_WAITOK Any malloc performed by the .Fn hashinit_flags function is allowed to wait for memory. .El .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES The largest prime hash value chosen by .Fn phashinit is 32749. .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn hashinit function returns a pointer to an allocated hash table and sets the location pointed to by .Fa hashmask to the bit mask to be used for computing the correct slot in the hash table. .Pp The .Fn phashinit function returns a pointer to an allocated hash table and sets the location pointed to by .Fa nentries to the number of rows in the hash table. .Sh EXAMPLES A typical example is shown below: .Bd -literal -offset indent \&... static LIST_HEAD(foo, foo) *footable; static u_long foomask; \&... footable = hashinit(32, M_FOO, &foomask); .Ed .Pp Here we allocate a hash table with 32 entries from the malloc arena pointed to by .Dv M_FOO . The mask for the allocated hash table is returned in .Va foomask . A subsequent call to .Fn hashdestroy uses the value in .Va foomask : .Bd -literal -offset indent \&... hashdestroy(footable, M_FOO, foomask); .Ed .Sh DIAGNOSTICS The .Fn hashinit and .Fn phashinit functions will panic if argument .Fa nelements is less than or equal to zero. .Pp The .Fn hashdestroy function will panic if the hash table pointed to by .Fa hashtbl is not empty. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr LIST_HEAD 3 , .Xr malloc 9 .Sh BUGS There is no .Fn phashdestroy function, and using .Fn hashdestroy to free a hash table allocated by .Fn phashinit usually has grave consequences.