1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 * A fast, small, non-recursive O(nlog n) sort for the Linux kernel
5 * Jan 23 2005 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
8 #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
10 #include <linux/types.h>
11 #include <linux/export.h>
12 #include <linux/sort.h>
14 static int alignment_ok(const void *base, int align)
16 return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS) ||
17 ((unsigned long)base & (align - 1)) == 0;
20 static void u32_swap(void *a, void *b, int size)
23 *(u32 *)a = *(u32 *)b;
27 static void u64_swap(void *a, void *b, int size)
30 *(u64 *)a = *(u64 *)b;
34 static void generic_swap(void *a, void *b, int size)
40 *(char *)a++ = *(char *)b;
46 * sort - sort an array of elements
47 * @base: pointer to data to sort
48 * @num: number of elements
49 * @size: size of each element
50 * @cmp_func: pointer to comparison function
51 * @swap_func: pointer to swap function or NULL
53 * This function does a heapsort on the given array. You may provide a
54 * swap_func function optimized to your element type.
56 * Sorting time is O(n log n) both on average and worst-case. While
57 * qsort is about 20% faster on average, it suffers from exploitable
58 * O(n*n) worst-case behavior and extra memory requirements that make
59 * it less suitable for kernel use.
62 void sort(void *base, size_t num, size_t size,
63 int (*cmp_func)(const void *, const void *),
64 void (*swap_func)(void *, void *, int size))
66 /* pre-scale counters for performance */
67 int i = (num/2 - 1) * size, n = num * size, c, r;
70 if (size == 4 && alignment_ok(base, 4))
72 else if (size == 8 && alignment_ok(base, 8))
75 swap_func = generic_swap;
79 for ( ; i >= 0; i -= size) {
80 for (r = i; r * 2 + size < n; r = c) {
83 cmp_func(base + c, base + c + size) < 0)
85 if (cmp_func(base + r, base + c) >= 0)
87 swap_func(base + r, base + c, size);
92 for (i = n - size; i > 0; i -= size) {
93 swap_func(base, base + i, size);
94 for (r = 0; r * 2 + size < i; r = c) {
97 cmp_func(base + c, base + c + size) < 0)
99 if (cmp_func(base + r, base + c) >= 0)
101 swap_func(base + r, base + c, size);