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Support linked lists that can hold many different structs at once. This is generally done using trait objects. The main challenge is figuring what the struct is given only a pointer to the ListLinks. We do this by storing a pointer to the struct next to the ListLinks field. The container_of operation will then just read that pointer. When the type is a trait object, that pointer will be a fat pointer whose metadata is a vtable that tells you what kind of struct it is. Heterogeneous lists are heavily used by Rust Binder. There are a lot of so-called todo lists containing various events that need to be delivered to userspace next time userspace calls into the driver. And there are quite a few different todo item types: incoming transaction, changes to refcounts, death notifications, and more. 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-v5-9-f5f5e8075da0@google.com Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> |
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