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>
10 #include <linux/slab.h>
12 static void u32_swap(void *a, void *b, int size)
15 *(u32 *)a = *(u32 *)b;
19 static void generic_swap(void *a, void *b, int size)
25 *(char *)a++ = *(char *)b;
31 * sort - sort an array of elements
32 * @base: pointer to data to sort
33 * @num: number of elements
34 * @size: size of each element
35 * @cmp_func: pointer to comparison function
36 * @swap_func: pointer to swap function or NULL
38 * This function does a heapsort on the given array. You may provide a
39 * swap_func function optimized to your element type.
41 * Sorting time is O(n log n) both on average and worst-case. While
42 * qsort is about 20% faster on average, it suffers from exploitable
43 * O(n*n) worst-case behavior and extra memory requirements that make
44 * it less suitable for kernel use.
47 void sort(void *base, size_t num, size_t size,
48 int (*cmp_func)(const void *, const void *),
49 void (*swap_func)(void *, void *, int size))
51 /* pre-scale counters for performance */
52 int i = (num/2 - 1) * size, n = num * size, c, r;
55 swap_func = (size == 4 ? u32_swap : generic_swap);
58 for ( ; i >= 0; i -= size) {
59 for (r = i; r * 2 + size < n; r = c) {
62 cmp_func(base + c, base + c + size) < 0)
64 if (cmp_func(base + r, base + c) >= 0)
66 swap_func(base + r, base + c, size);
71 for (i = n - size; i > 0; i -= size) {
72 swap_func(base, base + i, size);
73 for (r = 0; r * 2 + size < i; r = c) {
76 cmp_func(base + c, base + c + size) < 0)
78 if (cmp_func(base + r, base + c) >= 0)
80 swap_func(base + r, base + c, size);
88 /* a simple boot-time regression test */
90 int cmpint(const void *a, const void *b)
92 return *(int *)a - *(int *)b;
95 static int sort_test(void)
99 a = kmalloc(1000 * sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
102 printk("testing sort()\n");
104 for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
105 r = (r * 725861) % 6599;
109 sort(a, 1000, sizeof(int), cmpint, NULL);
111 for (i = 0; i < 999; i++)
113 printk("sort() failed!\n");
122 module_init(sort_test);