commonlib: Add Bubble sort algorithm

Add an implementation for Bubble sort. For now, only integers can be
sorted in an ascending or descending order. It can be later simply
extended to cover other datasets like strings if needed.

The reasons for choosing bubble sort are:
* it is a simple algorithm
* bubble sort is stable, i.e. it does not exchange entries which are not
  needed to be sorted as they are already in order

Change-Id: I2c5e0b5685a907243b58ebe6682078272d316bf6
Signed-off-by: Werner Zeh <werner.zeh@siemens.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/31544
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/commonlib/sort.c b/src/commonlib/sort.c
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+/*
+ * This file is part of the coreboot project.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 Siemens AG
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ */
+
+#include <commonlib/helpers.h>
+#include <commonlib/sort.h>
+
+/* Implement a simple Bubble sort algorithm. Reduce the needed number of
+   iterations by taking care of already sorted entries in the list. */
+void bubblesort(int *v, size_t num_entries, sort_order_t order)
+{
+	size_t i, j;
+	int swapped;
+
+	for (j = 0; j < num_entries - 1; j++) {
+		swapped = 0;
+		for (i = 0; i < num_entries - j - 1; i++) {
+			switch (order) {
+			case NUM_ASCENDING:
+				if (v[i] > v[i + 1]) {
+					SWAP(v[i], v[i + 1]);
+					swapped = 1;
+				}
+				break;
+			case NUM_DESCENDING:
+				if (v[i] < v[i + 1]) {
+					SWAP(v[i], v[i + 1]);
+					swapped = 1;
+				}
+				break;
+			default:
+				return;
+			}
+		}
+		if (!swapped)
+			break;
+	}
+}