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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2013-11-12 15:10:01 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-13 12:09:23 +0900
commit008208c6b26f21c2648c250a09c55e737c02c5f8 (patch)
tree14710b8640457d3377b8ddc5d9ed5e41234ed561 /include
parent92a2e1cb53ba649e620b7f02a15ad1fb949c6355 (diff)
list: introduce list_next_entry() and list_prev_entry()
Add two trivial helpers list_next_entry() and list_prev_entry(), they can have a lot of users including list.h itself. In fact the 1st one is already defined in events/core.c and bnx2x_sp.c, so the patch simply moves the definition to list.h. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/list.h16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
index f4d8a2f12a33..2ece63847001 100644
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -373,6 +373,22 @@ static inline void list_splice_tail_init(struct list_head *list,
(!list_empty(ptr) ? list_first_entry(ptr, type, member) : NULL)
/**
+ * list_next_entry - get the next element in list
+ * @pos: the type * to cursor
+ * @member: the name of the list_struct within the struct.
+ */
+#define list_next_entry(pos, member) \
+ list_entry((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member)
+
+/**
+ * list_prev_entry - get the prev element in list
+ * @pos: the type * to cursor
+ * @member: the name of the list_struct within the struct.
+ */
+#define list_prev_entry(pos, member) \
+ list_entry((pos)->member.prev, typeof(*(pos)), member)
+
+/**
* list_for_each - iterate over a list
* @pos: the &struct list_head to use as a loop cursor.
* @head: the head for your list.