tree 575196f1d0b9528b7d63b9bff692dd81e1aeac0f
parent f02e8a6596b7dc9b2171f7ff5654039ef0950cdc
author Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> 1302804019 +0200
committer Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 1305789927 +0930

lib: Add generic binary search function to the kernel.

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 <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Extra-bikeshedding-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Extra-bikeshedding-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Extra-bikeshedding-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>