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authorLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>2012-04-26 13:36:01 -0300
committerKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2012-04-29 19:14:05 +0200
commitc4326aa4af424ada8ab9e6fe77035db1cf222ffa (patch)
tree14f47bfbae8c0da4212ee22ad73f1bbeeee9e0bc
parentc8f8394a9309d4390daac70b736b34d0b6734f95 (diff)
util: introduce container_of() macro
This macro comes from kernel and it's useful for unwrapping structs inside another one. The generated code is actually the same to the one where this logic is used in udev, but using this macro is much cleaner and less error prone.
-rw-r--r--src/shared/util.h11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/shared/util.h b/src/shared/util.h
index 17ffd19f55..0246dfd826 100644
--- a/src/shared/util.h
+++ b/src/shared/util.h
@@ -59,6 +59,17 @@ typedef struct dual_timestamp {
#define USEC_PER_MONTH (2629800ULL*USEC_PER_SEC)
#define USEC_PER_YEAR (31557600ULL*USEC_PER_SEC)
+/*
+ * container_of - cast a member of a structure out to the containing structure
+ * @ptr: the pointer to the member.
+ * @type: the type of the container struct this is embedded in.
+ * @member: the name of the member within the struct.
+ *
+ */
+#define container_of(ptr, type, member) ({ \
+ const typeof( ((type *)0)->member ) *__mptr = (ptr); \
+ (type *)( (char *)__mptr - offsetof(type,member) );})
+
/* What is interpreted as whitespace? */
#define WHITESPACE " \t\n\r"
#define NEWLINE "\n\r"