From 1a94dc35bc5c166d89913dc01a49d27a3c21a455 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Abbott Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:00:19 +0200 Subject: lib: Add generic binary search function to the kernel. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit There a large number hand-coded binary searches in the kernel (run "git grep search | grep binary" to find many of them). Since in my experience, hand-coding binary searches can be error-prone, it seems worth cleaning this up by providing a generic binary search function. This generic binary search implementation comes from Ksplice. It has the same basic API as the C library bsearch() function. Ksplice uses it in half a dozen places with 4 different comparison functions, and I think our code is substantially cleaner because of this. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott Extra-bikeshedding-by: Alan Jenkins Extra-bikeshedding-by: André Goddard Rosa Extra-bikeshedding-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- include/linux/bsearch.h | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 include/linux/bsearch.h (limited to 'include/linux/bsearch.h') diff --git a/include/linux/bsearch.h b/include/linux/bsearch.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..90b1aa867224 --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/bsearch.h @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +#ifndef _LINUX_BSEARCH_H +#define _LINUX_BSEARCH_H + +#include + +void *bsearch(const void *key, const void *base, size_t num, size_t size, + int (*cmp)(const void *key, const void *elt)); + +#endif /* _LINUX_BSEARCH_H */ -- cgit