Introduce a handy list_first_entry macro

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: Pavel Emelianov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <[email protected]>
Cc: John McCutchan <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: john stultz <[email protected]>
Cc: Ram Pai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Pavel Emelianov 2007-05-08 00:30:19 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit b5e618181a
9 changed files with 29 additions and 18 deletions

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@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ void eventpoll_release_file(struct file *file)
mutex_lock(&epmutex);
while (!list_empty(lsthead)) {
epi = list_entry(lsthead->next, struct epitem, fllink);
epi = list_first_entry(lsthead, struct epitem, fllink);
ep = epi->ep;
list_del_init(&epi->fllink);
@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ static void ep_unregister_pollwait(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi)
if (nwait) {
while (!list_empty(lsthead)) {
pwq = list_entry(lsthead->next, struct eppoll_entry, llink);
pwq = list_first_entry(lsthead, struct eppoll_entry, llink);
list_del_init(&pwq->llink);
remove_wait_queue(pwq->whead, &pwq->wait);
@ -1359,7 +1359,7 @@ static int ep_send_events(struct eventpoll *ep, struct list_head *txlist,
* read.
*/
for (eventcnt = 0; !list_empty(txlist) && eventcnt < maxevents;) {
epi = list_entry(txlist->next, struct epitem, rdllink);
epi = list_first_entry(txlist, struct epitem, rdllink);
prefetch(epi->rdllink.next);
/*