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 --- lib/Makefile | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'lib/Makefile') diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile index ef0f28571156..4b49a249064b 100644 --- a/lib/Makefile +++ b/lib/Makefile @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ lib-y += kobject.o kref.o klist.o obj-y += bcd.o div64.o sort.o parser.o halfmd4.o debug_locks.o random32.o \ bust_spinlocks.o hexdump.o kasprintf.o bitmap.o scatterlist.o \ - string_helpers.o gcd.o lcm.o list_sort.o uuid.o flex_array.o + string_helpers.o gcd.o lcm.o list_sort.o uuid.o flex_array.o \ + bsearch.o obj-y += kstrtox.o obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_KSTRTOX) += test-kstrtox.o -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b