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Define the ListLinks struct, which wraps the prev/next pointers that will be used to insert values into a List in a future patch. Also define the ListItem trait, which is implemented by structs that have a ListLinks field. The ListItem trait provides four different methods that are all essentially container_of or the reverse of container_of. Two of them are used before inserting/after removing an item from the list, and the two others are used when looking at a value without changing whether it is in a list. This distinction is introduced because it is needed for the patch that adds support for heterogeneous lists, which are implemented by adding a third pointer field with a fat pointer to the full struct. When inserting into the heterogeneous list, the pointer-to-self is updated to have the right vtable, and the container_of operation is implemented by just returning that pointer instead of using the real container_of operation. Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814-linked-list-v5-4-f5f5e8075da0@google.com Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.