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>
10 void u32_swap(void *a
, void *b
, int size
)
13 *(u32
*)a
= *(u32
*)b
;
17 void generic_swap(void *a
, void *b
, int size
)
23 *(char *)a
++ = *(char *)b
;
29 * sort - sort an array of elements
30 * @base: pointer to data to sort
31 * @num: number of elements
32 * @size: size of each element
33 * @cmp: pointer to comparison function
34 * @swap: pointer to swap function or NULL
36 * This function does a heapsort on the given array. You may provide a
37 * swap function optimized to your element type.
39 * Sorting time is O(n log n) both on average and worst-case. While
40 * qsort is about 20% faster on average, it suffers from exploitable
41 * O(n*n) worst-case behavior and extra memory requirements that make
42 * it less suitable for kernel use.
45 void sort(void *base
, size_t num
, size_t size
,
46 int (*cmp
)(const void *, const void *),
47 void (*swap
)(void *, void *, int size
))
49 /* pre-scale counters for performance */
50 int i
= (num
/2) * size
, n
= num
* size
, c
, r
;
53 swap
= (size
== 4 ? u32_swap
: generic_swap
);
56 for ( ; i
>= 0; i
-= size
) {
57 for (r
= i
; r
* 2 < n
; r
= c
) {
59 if (c
< n
- size
&& cmp(base
+ c
, base
+ c
+ size
) < 0)
61 if (cmp(base
+ r
, base
+ c
) >= 0)
63 swap(base
+ r
, base
+ c
, size
);
68 for (i
= n
- size
; i
>= 0; i
-= size
) {
69 swap(base
, base
+ i
, size
);
70 for (r
= 0; r
* 2 < i
; r
= c
) {
72 if (c
< i
- size
&& cmp(base
+ c
, base
+ c
+ size
) < 0)
74 if (cmp(base
+ r
, base
+ c
) >= 0)
76 swap(base
+ r
, base
+ c
, size
);
84 /* a simple boot-time regression test */
86 int cmpint(const void *a
, const void *b
)
88 return *(int *)a
- *(int *)b
;
91 static int sort_test(void)
95 a
= kmalloc(1000 * sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL
);
98 printk("testing sort()\n");
100 for (i
= 0; i
< 1000; i
++) {
101 r
= (r
* 725861) % 6599;
105 sort(a
, 1000, sizeof(int), cmpint
, NULL
);
107 for (i
= 0; i
< 999; i
++)
109 printk("sort() failed!\n");
118 module_init(sort_test
);