tools/include/linux/container_of.h

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

tools/include/linux/container_of.h

Extension

.h

Size

583 bytes

Lines

19

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

tools

Inferred role

Support Tooling And Documentation: implementation source

Status

source implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

• Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
• Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.

Dependency Surface

• No C-style include directives detected by the generator.

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

#ifndef _TOOLS_LINUX_CONTAINER_OF_H
#define _TOOLS_LINUX_CONTAINER_OF_H

#ifndef container_of
/**
 * container_of - cast a member of a structure out to the containing structure
 * @ptr:	the pointer to the member.
 * @type:	the type of the container struct this is embedded in.
 * @member:	the name of the member within the struct.
 *
 */
#define container_of(ptr, type, member) ({			\
	const typeof(((type *)0)->member) * __mptr = (ptr);	\
	(type *)((char *)__mptr - offsetof(type, member)); })
#endif

#endif	/* _TOOLS_LINUX_CONTAINER_OF_H */

Annotation

• Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / tools.
• Implementation status: source implementation candidate.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.