mtd-utils: Extract list implementation to common lib and add list_sort support

Current list implementation code is put under jffs utils, extract it into
common lib, and add more list operations(eg. list_move, list_splice, etc.).
Besides, add list sorting support in new source file lib/list_sort.c.

This is a preparation for replacing implementation of UBIFS utils with
linux kernel libs.

Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>

2 files changed, 248 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Makemodule.am b/lib/Makemodule.am
index 570896b..7f890da 100644
--- a/lib/Makemodule.am
+++ b/lib/Makemodule.am
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ libmtd_a_SOURCES = \
 	include/libfec.h \
 	lib/common.c \
 	include/common.h \
+	lib/list_sort.c \
+	include/list.h \
 	lib/libcrc32.c \
 	include/crc32.h \
 	lib/libmtd_legacy.c \
diff --git a/lib/list_sort.c b/lib/list_sort.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d873438
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/list_sort.c
@@ -0,0 +1,246 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include "list.h"
+
+/*
+ * Returns a list organized in an intermediate format suited
+ * to chaining of merge() calls: null-terminated, no reserved or
+ * sentinel head node, "prev" links not maintained.
+ */
+__attribute__((nonnull(2,3,4)))
+static struct list_head *merge(void *priv, list_cmp_func_t cmp,
+			       struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b)
+{
+	struct list_head *head, **tail = &head;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		/* if equal, take 'a' -- important for sort stability */
+		if (cmp(priv, a, b) <= 0) {
+			*tail = a;
+			tail = &a->next;
+			a = a->next;
+			if (!a) {
+				*tail = b;
+				break;
+			}
+		} else {
+			*tail = b;
+			tail = &b->next;
+			b = b->next;
+			if (!b) {
+				*tail = a;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return head;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Combine final list merge with restoration of standard doubly-linked
+ * list structure.  This approach duplicates code from merge(), but
+ * runs faster than the tidier alternatives of either a separate final
+ * prev-link restoration pass, or maintaining the prev links
+ * throughout.
+ */
+__attribute__((nonnull(2,3,4,5)))
+static void merge_final(void *priv, list_cmp_func_t cmp, struct list_head *head,
+			struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b)
+{
+	struct list_head *tail = head;
+	unsigned int count = 0;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		/* if equal, take 'a' -- important for sort stability */
+		if (cmp(priv, a, b) <= 0) {
+			tail->next = a;
+			a->prev = tail;
+			tail = a;
+			a = a->next;
+			if (!a)
+				break;
+		} else {
+			tail->next = b;
+			b->prev = tail;
+			tail = b;
+			b = b->next;
+			if (!b) {
+				b = a;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	/* Finish linking remainder of list b on to tail */
+	tail->next = b;
+	do {
+		/*
+		 * If the merge is highly unbalanced (e.g. the input is
+		 * already sorted), this loop may run many iterations.
+		 * Continue callbacks to the client even though no
+		 * element comparison is needed, so the client's cmp()
+		 * routine can invoke cond_resched() periodically.
+		 */
+		if (!++count)
+			cmp(priv, b, b);
+		b->prev = tail;
+		tail = b;
+		b = b->next;
+	} while (b);
+
+	/* And the final links to make a circular doubly-linked list */
+	tail->next = head;
+	head->prev = tail;
+}
+
+/**
+ * list_sort - sort a list
+ * @priv: private data, opaque to list_sort(), passed to @cmp
+ * @head: the list to sort
+ * @cmp: the elements comparison function
+ *
+ * The comparison function @cmp must return > 0 if @a should sort after
+ * @b ("@a > @b" if you want an ascending sort), and <= 0 if @a should
+ * sort before @b *or* their original order should be preserved.  It is
+ * always called with the element that came first in the input in @a,
+ * and list_sort is a stable sort, so it is not necessary to distinguish
+ * the @a < @b and @a == @b cases.
+ *
+ * This is compatible with two styles of @cmp function:
+ * - The traditional style which returns <0 / =0 / >0, or
+ * - Returning a boolean 0/1.
+ * The latter offers a chance to save a few cycles in the comparison
+ * (which is used by e.g. plug_ctx_cmp() in block/blk-mq.c).
+ *
+ * A good way to write a multi-word comparison is::
+ *
+ *	if (a->high != b->high)
+ *		return a->high > b->high;
+ *	if (a->middle != b->middle)
+ *		return a->middle > b->middle;
+ *	return a->low > b->low;
+ *
+ *
+ * This mergesort is as eager as possible while always performing at least
+ * 2:1 balanced merges.  Given two pending sublists of size 2^k, they are
+ * merged to a size-2^(k+1) list as soon as we have 2^k following elements.
+ *
+ * Thus, it will avoid cache thrashing as long as 3*2^k elements can
+ * fit into the cache.  Not quite as good as a fully-eager bottom-up
+ * mergesort, but it does use 0.2*n fewer comparisons, so is faster in
+ * the common case that everything fits into L1.
+ *
+ *
+ * The merging is controlled by "count", the number of elements in the
+ * pending lists.  This is beautifully simple code, but rather subtle.
+ *
+ * Each time we increment "count", we set one bit (bit k) and clear
+ * bits k-1 .. 0.  Each time this happens (except the very first time
+ * for each bit, when count increments to 2^k), we merge two lists of
+ * size 2^k into one list of size 2^(k+1).
+ *
+ * This merge happens exactly when the count reaches an odd multiple of
+ * 2^k, which is when we have 2^k elements pending in smaller lists,
+ * so it's safe to merge away two lists of size 2^k.
+ *
+ * After this happens twice, we have created two lists of size 2^(k+1),
+ * which will be merged into a list of size 2^(k+2) before we create
+ * a third list of size 2^(k+1), so there are never more than two pending.
+ *
+ * The number of pending lists of size 2^k is determined by the
+ * state of bit k of "count" plus two extra pieces of information:
+ *
+ * - The state of bit k-1 (when k == 0, consider bit -1 always set), and
+ * - Whether the higher-order bits are zero or non-zero (i.e.
+ *   is count >= 2^(k+1)).
+ *
+ * There are six states we distinguish.  "x" represents some arbitrary
+ * bits, and "y" represents some arbitrary non-zero bits:
+ * 0:  00x: 0 pending of size 2^k;           x pending of sizes < 2^k
+ * 1:  01x: 0 pending of size 2^k; 2^(k-1) + x pending of sizes < 2^k
+ * 2: x10x: 0 pending of size 2^k; 2^k     + x pending of sizes < 2^k
+ * 3: x11x: 1 pending of size 2^k; 2^(k-1) + x pending of sizes < 2^k
+ * 4: y00x: 1 pending of size 2^k; 2^k     + x pending of sizes < 2^k
+ * 5: y01x: 2 pending of size 2^k; 2^(k-1) + x pending of sizes < 2^k
+ * (merge and loop back to state 2)
+ *
+ * We gain lists of size 2^k in the 2->3 and 4->5 transitions (because
+ * bit k-1 is set while the more significant bits are non-zero) and
+ * merge them away in the 5->2 transition.  Note in particular that just
+ * before the 5->2 transition, all lower-order bits are 11 (state 3),
+ * so there is one list of each smaller size.
+ *
+ * When we reach the end of the input, we merge all the pending
+ * lists, from smallest to largest.  If you work through cases 2 to
+ * 5 above, you can see that the number of elements we merge with a list
+ * of size 2^k varies from 2^(k-1) (cases 3 and 5 when x == 0) to
+ * 2^(k+1) - 1 (second merge of case 5 when x == 2^(k-1) - 1).
+ */
+__attribute__((nonnull(2,3)))
+void list_sort(void *priv, struct list_head *head, list_cmp_func_t cmp)
+{
+	struct list_head *list = head->next, *pending = NULL;
+	size_t count = 0;	/* Count of pending */
+
+	if (list == head->prev)	/* Zero or one elements */
+		return;
+
+	/* Convert to a null-terminated singly-linked list. */
+	head->prev->next = NULL;
+
+	/*
+	 * Data structure invariants:
+	 * - All lists are singly linked and null-terminated; prev
+	 *   pointers are not maintained.
+	 * - pending is a prev-linked "list of lists" of sorted
+	 *   sublists awaiting further merging.
+	 * - Each of the sorted sublists is power-of-two in size.
+	 * - Sublists are sorted by size and age, smallest & newest at front.
+	 * - There are zero to two sublists of each size.
+	 * - A pair of pending sublists are merged as soon as the number
+	 *   of following pending elements equals their size (i.e.
+	 *   each time count reaches an odd multiple of that size).
+	 *   That ensures each later final merge will be at worst 2:1.
+	 * - Each round consists of:
+	 *   - Merging the two sublists selected by the highest bit
+	 *     which flips when count is incremented, and
+	 *   - Adding an element from the input as a size-1 sublist.
+	 */
+	do {
+		size_t bits;
+		struct list_head **tail = &pending;
+
+		/* Find the least-significant clear bit in count */
+		for (bits = count; bits & 1; bits >>= 1)
+			tail = &(*tail)->prev;
+		/* Do the indicated merge */
+		if (bits) {
+			struct list_head *a = *tail, *b = a->prev;
+
+			a = merge(priv, cmp, b, a);
+			/* Install the merged result in place of the inputs */
+			a->prev = b->prev;
+			*tail = a;
+		}
+
+		/* Move one element from input list to pending */
+		list->prev = pending;
+		pending = list;
+		list = list->next;
+		pending->next = NULL;
+		count++;
+	} while (list);
+
+	/* End of input; merge together all the pending lists. */
+	list = pending;
+	pending = pending->prev;
+	for (;;) {
+		struct list_head *next = pending->prev;
+
+		if (!next)
+			break;
+		list = merge(priv, cmp, pending, list);
+		pending = next;
+	}
+	/* The final merge, rebuilding prev links */
+	merge_final(priv, cmp, head, pending, list);
+}