Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 4 authors, 2016-11-23
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[RFC PATCH 1/6] eal: define container macro

From: Shreyansh Jain <hidden>
Date: 2016-11-17 05:28:09
Subsystem: library code, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds

From: Jan Viktorin <redacted>

Signed-off-by: Jan Viktorin <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <redacted>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h
index db5ac91..8152bd9 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h
@@ -331,6 +331,24 @@ rte_bsf32(uint32_t v)
 #define offsetof(TYPE, MEMBER)  __builtin_offsetof (TYPE, MEMBER)
 #endif
 
+/**
+ * Return pointer to the wrapping struct instance.
+ * Example:
+ *
+ *  struct wrapper {
+ *      ...
+ *      struct child c;
+ *      ...
+ *  };
+ *
+ *  struct child *x = obtain(...);
+ *  struct wrapper *w = container_of(x, struct wrapper, c);
+ */
+#ifndef container_of
+#define container_of(p, type, member) \
+	((type *) (((char *) (p)) - offsetof(type, member)))
+#endif
+
 #define _RTE_STR(x) #x
 /** Take a macro value and get a string version of it */
 #define RTE_STR(x) _RTE_STR(x)
-- 
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