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2023-12-08 01573e231f18eb2d99162747186f59511f56b64d
kernel/lib/list_sort.c
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77 #include <linux/list_sort.h>
88 #include <linux/list.h>
99
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-#define MAX_LIST_LENGTH_BITS 20
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+typedef int __attribute__((nonnull(2,3))) (*cmp_func)(void *,
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+ struct list_head *, struct list_head *);
1112
1213 /*
1314 * Returns a list organized in an intermediate format suited
1415 * to chaining of merge() calls: null-terminated, no reserved or
1516 * sentinel head node, "prev" links not maintained.
1617 */
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-static struct list_head *merge(void *priv,
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- int (*cmp)(void *priv, struct list_head *a,
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- struct list_head *b),
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+__attribute__((nonnull(2,3,4)))
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+static struct list_head *merge(void *priv, cmp_func cmp,
2020 struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b)
2121 {
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- struct list_head head, *tail = &head;
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+ struct list_head *head, **tail = &head;
2323
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- while (a && b) {
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+ for (;;) {
2525 /* if equal, take 'a' -- important for sort stability */
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- if ((*cmp)(priv, a, b) <= 0) {
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- tail->next = a;
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+ if (cmp(priv, a, b) <= 0) {
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+ *tail = a;
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+ tail = &a->next;
2829 a = a->next;
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+ if (!a) {
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+ *tail = b;
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+ break;
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+ }
2934 } else {
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- tail->next = b;
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+ *tail = b;
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+ tail = &b->next;
3137 b = b->next;
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+ if (!b) {
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+ *tail = a;
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+ break;
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+ }
3242 }
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- tail = tail->next;
3443 }
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- tail->next = a?:b;
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- return head.next;
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+ return head;
3745 }
3846
3947 /*
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4351 * prev-link restoration pass, or maintaining the prev links
4452 * throughout.
4553 */
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-static void merge_and_restore_back_links(void *priv,
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- int (*cmp)(void *priv, struct list_head *a,
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- struct list_head *b),
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- struct list_head *head,
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- struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b)
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+__attribute__((nonnull(2,3,4,5)))
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+static void merge_final(void *priv, cmp_func cmp, struct list_head *head,
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+ struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b)
5157 {
5258 struct list_head *tail = head;
5359 u8 count = 0;
5460
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- while (a && b) {
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+ for (;;) {
5662 /* if equal, take 'a' -- important for sort stability */
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- if ((*cmp)(priv, a, b) <= 0) {
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+ if (cmp(priv, a, b) <= 0) {
5864 tail->next = a;
5965 a->prev = tail;
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+ tail = a;
6067 a = a->next;
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+ if (!a)
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+ break;
6170 } else {
6271 tail->next = b;
6372 b->prev = tail;
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+ tail = b;
6474 b = b->next;
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+ if (!b) {
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+ b = a;
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+ break;
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+ }
6579 }
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- tail = tail->next;
6780 }
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- tail->next = a ? : b;
6981
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+ /* Finish linking remainder of list b on to tail */
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+ tail->next = b;
7084 do {
7185 /*
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- * In worst cases this loop may run many iterations.
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+ * If the merge is highly unbalanced (e.g. the input is
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+ * already sorted), this loop may run many iterations.
7388 * Continue callbacks to the client even though no
7489 * element comparison is needed, so the client's cmp()
7590 * routine can invoke cond_resched() periodically.
7691 */
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- if (unlikely(!(++count)))
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- (*cmp)(priv, tail->next, tail->next);
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+ if (unlikely(!++count))
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+ cmp(priv, b, b);
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+ b->prev = tail;
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+ tail = b;
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+ b = b->next;
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+ } while (b);
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- tail->next->prev = tail;
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- tail = tail->next;
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- } while (tail->next);
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-
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+ /* And the final links to make a circular doubly-linked list */
84100 tail->next = head;
85101 head->prev = tail;
86102 }
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91107 * @head: the list to sort
92108 * @cmp: the elements comparison function
93109 *
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- * This function implements "merge sort", which has O(nlog(n))
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- * complexity.
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+ * The comparison funtion @cmp must return > 0 if @a should sort after
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+ * @b ("@a > @b" if you want an ascending sort), and <= 0 if @a should
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+ * sort before @b *or* their original order should be preserved. It is
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+ * always called with the element that came first in the input in @a,
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+ * and list_sort is a stable sort, so it is not necessary to distinguish
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+ * the @a < @b and @a == @b cases.
96116 *
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- * The comparison function @cmp must return a negative value if @a
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- * should sort before @b, and a positive value if @a should sort after
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- * @b. If @a and @b are equivalent, and their original relative
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- * ordering is to be preserved, @cmp must return 0.
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+ * This is compatible with two styles of @cmp function:
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+ * - The traditional style which returns <0 / =0 / >0, or
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+ * - Returning a boolean 0/1.
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+ * The latter offers a chance to save a few cycles in the comparison
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+ * (which is used by e.g. plug_ctx_cmp() in block/blk-mq.c).
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+ *
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+ * A good way to write a multi-word comparison is::
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+ *
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+ * if (a->high != b->high)
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+ * return a->high > b->high;
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+ * if (a->middle != b->middle)
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+ * return a->middle > b->middle;
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+ * return a->low > b->low;
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+ *
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+ *
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+ * This mergesort is as eager as possible while always performing at least
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+ * 2:1 balanced merges. Given two pending sublists of size 2^k, they are
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+ * merged to a size-2^(k+1) list as soon as we have 2^k following elements.
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+ *
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+ * Thus, it will avoid cache thrashing as long as 3*2^k elements can
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+ * fit into the cache. Not quite as good as a fully-eager bottom-up
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+ * mergesort, but it does use 0.2*n fewer comparisons, so is faster in
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+ * the common case that everything fits into L1.
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+ *
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+ *
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+ * The merging is controlled by "count", the number of elements in the
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+ * pending lists. This is beautiully simple code, but rather subtle.
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+ *
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+ * Each time we increment "count", we set one bit (bit k) and clear
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+ * bits k-1 .. 0. Each time this happens (except the very first time
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+ * for each bit, when count increments to 2^k), we merge two lists of
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+ * size 2^k into one list of size 2^(k+1).
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+ *
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+ * This merge happens exactly when the count reaches an odd multiple of
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+ * 2^k, which is when we have 2^k elements pending in smaller lists,
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+ * so it's safe to merge away two lists of size 2^k.
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+ *
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+ * After this happens twice, we have created two lists of size 2^(k+1),
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+ * which will be merged into a list of size 2^(k+2) before we create
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+ * a third list of size 2^(k+1), so there are never more than two pending.
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+ *
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+ * The number of pending lists of size 2^k is determined by the
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+ * state of bit k of "count" plus two extra pieces of information:
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+ *
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+ * - The state of bit k-1 (when k == 0, consider bit -1 always set), and
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+ * - Whether the higher-order bits are zero or non-zero (i.e.
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+ * is count >= 2^(k+1)).
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+ *
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+ * There are six states we distinguish. "x" represents some arbitrary
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+ * bits, and "y" represents some arbitrary non-zero bits:
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+ * 0: 00x: 0 pending of size 2^k; x pending of sizes < 2^k
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+ * 1: 01x: 0 pending of size 2^k; 2^(k-1) + x pending of sizes < 2^k
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+ * 2: x10x: 0 pending of size 2^k; 2^k + x pending of sizes < 2^k
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+ * 3: x11x: 1 pending of size 2^k; 2^(k-1) + x pending of sizes < 2^k
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+ * 4: y00x: 1 pending of size 2^k; 2^k + x pending of sizes < 2^k
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+ * 5: y01x: 2 pending of size 2^k; 2^(k-1) + x pending of sizes < 2^k
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+ * (merge and loop back to state 2)
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+ *
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+ * We gain lists of size 2^k in the 2->3 and 4->5 transitions (because
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+ * bit k-1 is set while the more significant bits are non-zero) and
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+ * merge them away in the 5->2 transition. Note in particular that just
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+ * before the 5->2 transition, all lower-order bits are 11 (state 3),
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+ * so there is one list of each smaller size.
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+ *
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+ * When we reach the end of the input, we merge all the pending
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+ * lists, from smallest to largest. If you work through cases 2 to
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+ * 5 above, you can see that the number of elements we merge with a list
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+ * of size 2^k varies from 2^(k-1) (cases 3 and 5 when x == 0) to
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+ * 2^(k+1) - 1 (second merge of case 5 when x == 2^(k-1) - 1).
101186 */
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+__attribute__((nonnull(2,3)))
102188 void list_sort(void *priv, struct list_head *head,
103189 int (*cmp)(void *priv, struct list_head *a,
104190 struct list_head *b))
105191 {
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- struct list_head *part[MAX_LIST_LENGTH_BITS+1]; /* sorted partial lists
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- -- last slot is a sentinel */
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- int lev; /* index into part[] */
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- int max_lev = 0;
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- struct list_head *list;
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+ struct list_head *list = head->next, *pending = NULL;
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+ size_t count = 0; /* Count of pending */
111194
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- if (list_empty(head))
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+ if (list == head->prev) /* Zero or one elements */
113196 return;
114197
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- memset(part, 0, sizeof(part));
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-
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+ /* Convert to a null-terminated singly-linked list. */
117199 head->prev->next = NULL;
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- list = head->next;
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- while (list) {
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- struct list_head *cur = list;
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+ /*
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+ * Data structure invariants:
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+ * - All lists are singly linked and null-terminated; prev
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+ * pointers are not maintained.
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+ * - pending is a prev-linked "list of lists" of sorted
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+ * sublists awaiting further merging.
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+ * - Each of the sorted sublists is power-of-two in size.
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+ * - Sublists are sorted by size and age, smallest & newest at front.
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+ * - There are zero to two sublists of each size.
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+ * - A pair of pending sublists are merged as soon as the number
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+ * of following pending elements equals their size (i.e.
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+ * each time count reaches an odd multiple of that size).
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+ * That ensures each later final merge will be at worst 2:1.
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+ * - Each round consists of:
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+ * - Merging the two sublists selected by the highest bit
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+ * which flips when count is incremented, and
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+ * - Adding an element from the input as a size-1 sublist.
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+ */
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+ do {
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+ size_t bits;
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+ struct list_head **tail = &pending;
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+
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+ /* Find the least-significant clear bit in count */
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+ for (bits = count; bits & 1; bits >>= 1)
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+ tail = &(*tail)->prev;
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+ /* Do the indicated merge */
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+ if (likely(bits)) {
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+ struct list_head *a = *tail, *b = a->prev;
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+
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+ a = merge(priv, cmp, b, a);
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+ /* Install the merged result in place of the inputs */
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+ a->prev = b->prev;
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+ *tail = a;
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+ }
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+
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+ /* Move one element from input list to pending */
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+ list->prev = pending;
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+ pending = list;
122239 list = list->next;
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- cur->next = NULL;
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+ pending->next = NULL;
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+ count++;
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+ } while (list);
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- for (lev = 0; part[lev]; lev++) {
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- cur = merge(priv, cmp, part[lev], cur);
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- part[lev] = NULL;
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- }
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- if (lev > max_lev) {
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- if (unlikely(lev >= ARRAY_SIZE(part)-1)) {
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- printk_once(KERN_DEBUG "list too long for efficiency\n");
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- lev--;
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- }
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- max_lev = lev;
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- }
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- part[lev] = cur;
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+ /* End of input; merge together all the pending lists. */
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+ list = pending;
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+ pending = pending->prev;
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+ for (;;) {
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+ struct list_head *next = pending->prev;
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+
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+ if (!next)
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+ break;
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+ list = merge(priv, cmp, pending, list);
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+ pending = next;
137254 }
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-
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- for (lev = 0; lev < max_lev; lev++)
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- if (part[lev])
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- list = merge(priv, cmp, part[lev], list);
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-
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- merge_and_restore_back_links(priv, cmp, head, part[max_lev], list);
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+ /* The final merge, rebuilding prev links */
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+ merge_final(priv, cmp, head, pending, list);
144257 }
145258 EXPORT_SYMBOL(list_sort);