• Pavel Emelianov's avatar
    Introduce a handy list_first_entry macro · b5e61818
    Pavel Emelianov authored
    There are many places in the kernel where the construction like
    
       foo = list_entry(head->next, struct foo_struct, list);
    
    are used.
    The code might look more descriptive and neat if using the macro
    
       list_first_entry(head, type, member) \
                 list_entry((head)->next, type, member)
    
    Here is the macro itself and the examples of its usage in the generic code.
     If it will turn out to be useful, I can prepare the set of patches to
    inject in into arch-specific code, drivers, networking, etc.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
    Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
    Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
    Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
    Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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