Introduce a handy list_first_entry macro
There are many places in the kernel where the construction like
foo = list_entry(head->next, struct foo_struct, list);
are used.
The code might look more descriptive and neat if using the macro
list_first_entry(head, type, member) \
list_entry((head)->next, type, member)
Here is the macro itself and the examples of its usage in the generic code.
If it will turn out to be useful, I can prepare the set of patches to
inject in into arch-specific code, drivers, networking, etc.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/dquot.c b/fs/dquot.c
index dcc5a58..3a99584 100644
--- a/fs/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/dquot.c
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@
spin_lock(&dq_list_lock);
dirty = &dqopt->info[cnt].dqi_dirty_list;
while (!list_empty(dirty)) {
- dquot = list_entry(dirty->next, struct dquot, dq_dirty);
+ dquot = list_first_entry(dirty, struct dquot, dq_dirty);
/* Dirty and inactive can be only bad dquot... */
if (!test_bit(DQ_ACTIVE_B, &dquot->dq_flags)) {
clear_dquot_dirty(dquot);
