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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2016-10-05 20:42:12 -0600
committerBin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>2016-10-11 11:55:33 +0800
commit5023bd7a804e09d0bf4937d8fecb5d85af6dba3c (patch)
tree4529a8c3d0d97c9348918f303fdefc841688e6e2 /include/linux
parentb91c6a1209e7da1a7f989d9ac35d0d8be0b7b710 (diff)
list: Add list_last_entry() to find the last entry
We have list_first_entry() but in some cases it is useful to find the last item added to the list. Add a macro for this. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/list.h11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
index b78851c3d7..5b8d1df5df 100644
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -338,6 +338,17 @@ static inline void list_splice_tail_init(struct list_head *list,
list_entry((ptr)->next, type, member)
/**
+ * list_last_entry - get the last element from a list
+ * @ptr: the list head to take the element from.
+ * @type: the type of the struct this is embedded in.
+ * @member: the name of the list_struct within the struct.
+ *
+ * Note, that list is expected to be not empty.
+ */
+#define list_last_entry(ptr, type, member) \
+ list_entry((ptr)->prev, type, member)
+
+/**
* list_for_each - iterate over a list
* @pos: the &struct list_head to use as a loop cursor.
* @head: the head for your list.