Re: [PATCH v2] mm,ksm: use new hashtable implementation

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:46:50 -0500
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Switch ksm to use the new hashtable implementation. This reduces the amount of
> generic unrelated code in the ksm module.

hm, include/linux/hashtable.h:hash_min() is rather dangerous - it
returns different values depending on the size of the first argument. 
So if the calling code mixes up its ints and longs (and boy we do that
a lot), the result will work on 32-bit and fail on 64-bit.

Also, is there ever likely to be a situation where the first arg to
hash_min() is *not* a pointer?  Perhaps it would be better to concede
to reality: rename `key' to `ptr' and remove all those typcasts you
just added.

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