summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/lib/bsearch.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/bsearch.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/bsearch.c36
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/bsearch.c b/lib/bsearch.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bf86aa66f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/bsearch.c
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+// 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, cmp_func_t cmp)
+{
+ return __inline_bsearch(key, base, num, size, cmp);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bsearch);
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(bsearch);