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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v3 6/7] scripts/sorttable: Add ORC unwind tables sort concurrently
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 02:47:49PM +0800, Shile Zhang wrote:

> +#if defined(SORTTABLE_64) && defined(UNWINDER_ORC_ENABLED)
> +/* ORC unwinder only support X86_64 */
> +#include <errno.h>
> +#include <pthread.h>
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +
> +#define ORC_REG_UNDEFINED 0
> +#define ERRSTRING_MAXSZ 256
> +
> +struct orc_entry {
> + s16 sp_offset;
> + s16 bp_offset;
> + unsigned sp_reg:4;
> + unsigned bp_reg:4;
> + unsigned type:2;
> + unsigned end:1;
> +} __attribute__((packed));
> +
> +struct orctable_info {
> + size_t orc_size;
> + size_t orc_ip_size;
> +} orctable;

There's ./arch/x86/include/asm/orc_types.h for this. Please don't
duplicate. objtool uses that same header.

> +/**
> + * sort - sort an array of elements
> + * @base: pointer to data to sort
> + * @num: number of elements
> + * @size: size of each element
> + * @cmp_func: pointer to comparison function
> + * @swap_func: pointer to swap function
> + *
> + * This function does a heapsort on the given array. You may provide a
> + * swap_func function optimized to your element type.
> + *
> + * Sorting time is O(n log n) both on average and worst-case. While
> + * qsort is about 20% faster on average, it suffers from exploitable
> + * O(n*n) worst-case behavior and extra memory requirements that make
> + * it less suitable for kernel use.
> + *
> + * This code token out of /lib/sort.c.
> + */
> +static void sort(void *base, size_t num, size_t size,
> + int (*cmp_func)(const void *, const void *),
> + void (*swap_func)(void *, void *, int size))
> +{
> + /* pre-scale counters for performance */
> + int i = (num/2 - 1) * size, n = num * size, c, r;
> +
> + /* heapify */
> + for ( ; i >= 0; i -= size) {
> + for (r = i; r * 2 + size < n; r = c) {
> + c = r * 2 + size;
> + if (c < n - size &&
> + cmp_func(base + c, base + c + size) < 0)
> + c += size;
> + if (cmp_func(base + r, base + c) >= 0)
> + break;
> + swap_func(base + r, base + c, size);
> + }
> + }
> +
> + /* sort */
> + for (i = n - size; i > 0; i -= size) {
> + swap_func(base, base + i, size);
> + for (r = 0; r * 2 + size < i; r = c) {
> + c = r * 2 + size;
> + if (c < i - size &&
> + cmp_func(base + c, base + c + size) < 0)
> + c += size;
> + if (cmp_func(base + r, base + c) >= 0)
> + break;
> + swap_func(base + r, base + c, size);
> + }
> + }
> +}

Do we really need to copy the heapsort implementation? That is, why not
use libc's qsort() ? This is userspace after all.

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