From 9b815f2141deba07bbfe0b275bb4665c6a275097 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Blunck Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 16:57:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] eal: define container_of macro This macro is based on Jan Viktorin's original patch but also checks the type of the passed pointer against the type of the member. Signed-off-by: Jan Viktorin Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain [jblunck@infradead.org: add type checking and __extension__] Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck --- lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h index db5ac91c61..8dda3e2944 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h @@ -331,6 +331,26 @@ 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(ptr, type, member) __extension__ ({ \ + typeof(((type *)0)->member) *_ptr = (ptr); \ + (type *)(((char *)_ptr) - 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) -- 2.20.1