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Implement a function to generate hashes. It needs to be stable over time and endianness-independent as the hashes will appear on disk in future patches. It can assume that its input is a multiple of four bytes in size and alignment. This is borrowed from the VFS and simplified. le32_to_cpu() is added to make it endianness-independent. Changes ======= ver #3: - Read the data being hashed in an endianness-independent way[1]. - Change the size parameter to be in bytes rather than words. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=whtkzB446+hX0zdLsdcUJsJ=8_-0S1mE_R+YurThfUbLA@mail.gmail.com [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819586113.215744.1699465806130102367.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906888735.143852.10944614318596881429.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967082342.1823006.8915671045444488742.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021493624.640689.9990442668811178628.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.