2 * A fast, small, non-recursive O(nlog n) sort for the Linux kernel
4 * Jan 23 2005 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
7 #include <linux/kernel.h>
8 #include <linux/module.h>
9 #include <linux/sort.h>
11 static void u32_swap(void *a
, void *b
, int size
)
14 *(u32
*)a
= *(u32
*)b
;
18 static void generic_swap(void *a
, void *b
, int size
)
24 *(char *)a
++ = *(char *)b
;
30 * sort - sort an array of elements
31 * @base: pointer to data to sort
32 * @num: number of elements
33 * @size: size of each element
34 * @cmp: pointer to comparison function
35 * @swap: pointer to swap function or NULL
37 * This function does a heapsort on the given array. You may provide a
38 * swap function optimized to your element type.
40 * Sorting time is O(n log n) both on average and worst-case. While
41 * qsort is about 20% faster on average, it suffers from exploitable
42 * O(n*n) worst-case behavior and extra memory requirements that make
43 * it less suitable for kernel use.
46 void sort(void *base
, size_t num
, size_t size
,
47 int (*cmp
)(const void *, const void *),
48 void (*swap
)(void *, void *, int size
))
50 /* pre-scale counters for performance */
51 int i
= (num
/2) * size
, n
= num
* size
, c
, r
;
54 swap
= (size
== 4 ? u32_swap
: generic_swap
);
57 for ( ; i
>= 0; i
-= size
) {
58 for (r
= i
; r
* 2 < n
; r
= c
) {
60 if (c
< n
- size
&& cmp(base
+ c
, base
+ c
+ size
) < 0)
62 if (cmp(base
+ r
, base
+ c
) >= 0)
64 swap(base
+ r
, base
+ c
, size
);
69 for (i
= n
- size
; i
>= 0; i
-= size
) {
70 swap(base
, base
+ i
, size
);
71 for (r
= 0; r
* 2 < i
; r
= c
) {
73 if (c
< i
- size
&& cmp(base
+ c
, base
+ c
+ size
) < 0)
75 if (cmp(base
+ r
, base
+ c
) >= 0)
77 swap(base
+ r
, base
+ c
, size
);
85 /* a simple boot-time regression test */
87 int cmpint(const void *a
, const void *b
)
89 return *(int *)a
- *(int *)b
;
92 static int sort_test(void)
96 a
= kmalloc(1000 * sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL
);
99 printk("testing sort()\n");
101 for (i
= 0; i
< 1000; i
++) {
102 r
= (r
* 725861) % 6599;
106 sort(a
, 1000, sizeof(int), cmpint
, NULL
);
108 for (i
= 0; i
< 999; i
++)
110 printk("sort() failed!\n");
119 module_init(sort_test
);