Make common helpers for seq_files that work with list_heads
Many places in kernel use seq_file API to iterate over a regular list_head.
The code for such iteration is identical in all the places, so it's worth
introducing a common helpers.
This makes code about 300 lines smaller:
The first version of this patch made the helper functions static inline
in the seq_file.h header. This patch moves them to the fs/seq_file.c as
Andrew proposed. The vmlinux .text section sizes are as follows:
2.6.22-rc1-mm1: 0x001794d5
with the previous version: 0x00179505
with this patch: 0x00179135
The config file used was make allnoconfig with the "y" inclusion of all
the possible options to make the files modified by the patch compile plus
drivers I have on the test node.
This patch:
Many places in kernel use seq_file API to iterate over a regular list_head.
The code for such iteration is identical in all the places, so it's worth
introducing a common helpers.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index 0ac22af..49194a4 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -447,3 +447,37 @@
return -1;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_puts);
+
+struct list_head *seq_list_start(struct list_head *head, loff_t pos)
+{
+ struct list_head *lh;
+
+ list_for_each(lh, head)
+ if (pos-- == 0)
+ return lh;
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_list_start);
+
+struct list_head *seq_list_start_head(struct list_head *head, loff_t pos)
+{
+ if (!pos)
+ return head;
+
+ return seq_list_start(head, pos - 1);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_list_start_head);
+
+struct list_head *seq_list_next(void *v, struct list_head *head, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ struct list_head *lh;
+
+ lh = ((struct list_head *)v)->next;
+ ++*ppos;
+ return lh == head ? NULL : lh;
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_list_next);