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linux-next/lib/bsearch.c
Thomas Gleixner a10e763b87 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 372
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has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 135 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531081036.435762997@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-06-05 17:37:10 +02:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
* A generic implementation of binary search for the Linux kernel
*
* Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Ksplice, Inc.
* Author: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
*/
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/bsearch.h>
#include <linux/kprobes.h>
/*
* bsearch - binary search an array of elements
* @key: pointer to item being searched for
* @base: pointer to first element to search
* @num: number of elements
* @size: size of each element
* @cmp: pointer to comparison function
*
* This function does a binary search on the given array. The
* contents of the array should already be in ascending sorted order
* under the provided comparison function.
*
* Note that the key need not have the same type as the elements in
* the array, e.g. key could be a string and the comparison function
* could compare the string with the struct's name field. However, if
* the key and elements in the array are of the same type, you can use
* the same comparison function for both sort() and bsearch().
*/
void *bsearch(const void *key, const void *base, size_t num, size_t size,
int (*cmp)(const void *key, const void *elt))
{
const char *pivot;
int result;
while (num > 0) {
pivot = base + (num >> 1) * size;
result = cmp(key, pivot);
if (result == 0)
return (void *)pivot;
if (result > 0) {
base = pivot + size;
num--;
}
num >>= 1;
}
return NULL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bsearch);
NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(bsearch);