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 <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index ba41af2..7a64483 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@
void (*fn)(unsigned long);
unsigned long data;
- timer = list_entry(head->next,struct timer_list,entry);
+ timer = list_first_entry(head, struct timer_list,entry);
fn = timer->function;
data = timer->data;
@@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@
struct timer_list *timer;
while (!list_empty(head)) {
- timer = list_entry(head->next, struct timer_list, entry);
+ timer = list_first_entry(head, struct timer_list, entry);
detach_timer(timer, 0);
timer_set_base(timer, new_base);
internal_add_timer(new_base, timer);