lib/bsearch.c

   1 /*
   2  * A generic implementation of binary search for the Linux kernel
   3  *
   4  * Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Ksplice, Inc.
   5  * Author: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
   6  *
   7  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   8  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
   9  * published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2.
  10  */
  11
  12 #include <linux/export.h>
  13 #include <linux/bsearch.h>
  14 #include <linux/kprobes.h>
  15
  16 /*
  17  * bsearch - binary search an array of elements
  18  * @key: pointer to item being searched for
  19  * @base: pointer to first element to search
  20  * @num: number of elements
  21  * @size: size of each element
  22  * @cmp: pointer to comparison function
  23  *
  24  * This function does a binary search on the given array.  The
  25  * contents of the array should already be in ascending sorted order
  26  * under the provided comparison function.
  27  *
  28  * Note that the key need not have the same type as the elements in
  29  * the array, e.g. key could be a string and the comparison function
  30  * could compare the string with the struct's name field.  However, if
  31  * the key and elements in the array are of the same type, you can use
  32  * the same comparison function for both sort() and bsearch().
  33  */
  34 void *bsearch(const void *key, const void *base, size_t num, size_t size,
  35               int (*cmp)(const void *key, const void *elt))
  36 {
  37         size_t start = 0, end = num;
  38         int result;
  39
  40         while (start < end) {
  41                 size_t mid = start + (end - start) / 2;
  42
  43                 result = cmp(key, base + mid * size);
  44                 if (result < 0)
  45                         end = mid;
  46                 else if (result > 0)
  47                         start = mid + 1;
  48                 else
  49                         return (void *)base + mid * size;
  50         }
  51
  52         return NULL;
  53 }
  54 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bsearch);
  55 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(bsearch);