[Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] libxl: New convenience macro CONTAINER_OF

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# HG changeset patch
# User Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1327683684 0
# Node ID ccc3656225ef5062ee3efbf21be31e69feffc632
# Parent  03152893aba021053da70573a58449bcfcca4b88
libxl: New convenience macro CONTAINER_OF

Provide a convenient and type-safe wrapper which does the correct
dance to subtract offsetof.  This is very similar to the
"container_of" macro in the Linux kernel, but it has an additional
feature that instead of the type argument you may also pass an
expression of that type; this makes initialising a variable with
CONTAINER_OF easier.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---


diff -r 03152893aba0 -r ccc3656225ef tools/libxl/libxl_internal.h
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_internal.h      Fri Jan 27 17:01:24 2012 +0000
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_internal.h      Fri Jan 27 17:01:24 2012 +0000
@@ -1235,6 +1235,35 @@
  * Convenience macros.
  */
 
+/*
+ * CONTAINER_OF work like this.  Given:
+ *    typedef struct {
+ *      ...
+ *      member_type member_name;
+ *      ...
+ *    } outer_type;
+ *    outer_type outer, *outer_var;
+ *    member_type *inner_ptr = &outer->member_name;
+ *
+ * Then, effectively:
+ *    outer_type *CONTAINER_OF(member_type *inner_ptr,
+ *                             *outer_var, // or type name for outer_type
+ *                             member_name);
+ *
+ * So that:
+ *    CONTAINER_OF(inner_ptr, *outer_var, member_name) == &outer
+ *    CONTAINER_OF(inner_ptr, outer_type, member_name) == &outer
+ */
+#define CONTAINER_OF(inner_ptr, outer, member_name)                     \
+    ({                                                                  \
+        typeof(outer) *container_of_;                                   \
+        container_of_ = (void*)((char*)(inner_ptr) -                    \
+                                offsetof(typeof(outer), member_name));  \
+        (void)(&container_of_->member_name ==                           \
+               (typeof(inner_ptr))0) /* type check */;                  \
+        container_of_;                                                  \
+    })
+
 
 /*
  * All of these assume (or define)

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